Summary: They need meat, or more specifically tall bitch needs more meat than Tommy did. While he doesn't like the alien he's not going to let him starve.

Why do they not know the basics of survival? Sure not everyone back at home knew the basics, but they're in space! You'd think that would be a must to learn! In case of being stranded!

But nooo.. he has to do the hunting.

Or I guess, the fishing.

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Notes: Special guest reveal? Maybe? Mmmmaybe? Depends on how nice I feel.

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He feels like he's acquired a new child, a child in the form of a tall Maleficent cosplayer. He's so... awkward. In a weird way, he's so timid. At first he purposely was making the guy scared of him. But now it's getting tiring of seeing the guy look at him all timid and apprehensive, like he doesn't know if Tommy will lash at him for getting close to him or for being near Tubbo.

Yea he's gotten attached and protective of Tubbo, but if this guy is his guardian of sorts, then he's not gonna kill him! Hell even if he was just a friend Tommy wouldn't touch him. Tubbo clearly cares for him.

But once more the lack of communication complicates things. Not only does he want to talk to Tubbo and possibly curse at him for STILL CALLING HIM FUCKING MOMMY! But to also talk with the big guy, maybe get some answers out of him too.

He's observed the guy at this point, he's tall, taller than Tommy which he finds extremely fucking rude and will not hesitate to chop off his legs.

Tall, black with white splashes that look like a paint bucket was dumped on the left (Ranboos left) side of his body. He has horns that remind him of Maleficent and a pair of red and green eyes, which is both cool and interesting.

He has this tail that swishes behind him, it's a thin tail with only fur at the end, split like his hair, black and white. To top it all off, he has this odd suit? Nothing extremely fancy. It's all torn and ruined now, but it's odd seeing that on an alien. He thinks it's a suit anyways, with how ruined it is he can't tell anymore.

He looks cool, But he'd NEVER say that. Bastard would have to choke it out of him.

But, from what's he's learned and observed, this guy is a carnivore. He's only nibbling from the dried meat rations. Tommy's taking a break from the only meat option. But still, he knows this stuff won't last long, Tubbos food supply he doesn't have to worry, being a herbivore and all.

But Tommy needs fruits and meat, Maleficent over there needs just meat. He knows the basics of survival, but he doesn't know if he can hunt bigger food or animals to support himself and Tubbos guardian.

So when they all rested up and fell asleep for the night, he was the first to wake up. He did his best to not wake the others, Tubbo was clingy and had gotten closer to him during the night when the fire started to die.

It was tempting to stay there but he needed to scout the area, see if there's anything else nearby. When he went out for materials he found a tree with some weird fruit, like dragon fruit but yellow and had weird ring designs on it.

He couldn't' reach it during that time however, it was way too high up, he'll need vines. But he has a plan!

Quietly gathering the makeshift leaf sled, he took his trusty new knife and the vines he brought and took them out of the cave and tries his best to not lean on his injured leg for too long.

Hopefully they don't wake up and panic.

That's a concern for later Tommy, now however, is hunting Tommy.

"This shouldn't be that hard right? Just find a small animal and kill it!"

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"WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE!? AWWW NO! I CAN'T KILL YOU!"

Tommy was defeated, by the adorable eyes of what looks like a purple bunny with red spots on it's fur. It doesn't sound that interesting but when you look at it's eyes, he swears to god they are *sparkling*.

He's looks like a small version of fucking Bonnie from Fnaf he's not fucking joking.

He didn't nearly cry when he scared the bunny away, no he fucking didn't you have no goddamn proof stop spreading SLANDER!

Hunting was harder to do, for one, he doesn't have the proper tools for ranged hunting, like a gun or bow. Even if he had or made a bow he doesn't know how to use one nor has the proper skill for it.

All he has is his knife, he could make traps, but traps require bait to attract prey. And he does not have bait. He attempted to try catching smaller animals from their burrows and holes in the ground, but they are fast and too adorable.

Seriously! The one time he actually catches something and it looks like fucking Bonnie! It's too adorable.

He just couldn't do it.

So now he sits, on a log, trying to figure out what's next.

He growls low in frustration "Fucking fantastic, even wild alien animals can be cute"

There is one other option left, however, he's gonna need to find a large enough body of water.

And he's gonna have to hope this planet knows the concept of fish.

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Tommy gets up and goes to search for a body of water, oblivious to the eyes that follow him as it sees him struggling to catch even the easiest of preys. After all, he literally had that bunny in his line of sight! Should have been easy prey! Maybe this weird oddity doesn't like that prey? Or maybe it's too weak to properly hunt, it's injured after all.

The creature tilts it's head curiously, expertly navigating the trees to continue to pursuit this strange and interesting being.

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"FUCKING FINALLY!"

He found a body of water! 2 of them actually! One he had found earlier in a cave with stalagmites... or was it Stalactites? The ones on the ceiling were dripping water to a giant clear pool of water.

No fish in said water, but that's common, even back on earth you'd rarely find fish in cave water. But it looked like clean water! He just hopes there's... nothing toxic in it, maybe he should bring Tubbo here in case it is. See if Tubbo can tell him.

But on the other hand, he found an open pond? Lake? It's a large body of water, the water had a weird pink hue, but he saw some fish swim in it- and let him tell you, those fuckers were weird looking.

It feels weird knowing he's going to have to eat these guys, they don't look like normal fish, not completely at least. But all in the name of survival. So how does he go about fishing these guys?

He doesn't have bait or a fishing rod, but he still does have some sticks, rope and a knife. He can try making spears... maybe.

Only one way to find out if he's shit at survival.

He struggles with attempting to sharpen a rock, chipping it like those history channels showed people back then would do. Did he succeed in sharpening the rock like the biggest of manly mans?

Fuck no, not on the first try at least.

Shouting and cursing at the fish as he finally chips the rock in a decently pointy shape, and uses the vine (which is sturdy might he add, like damn, what the hell kinda shit these plants are made of?) and ties the pointed rock to the end of the stick.

Once he finishes tying the rock to the stick, holding them together with only rope, hopes and prayers, he picks it up, swinging it a bit to see if it stays together. It does, this is great. Fantastic. He's such a big fucking man. Go him.

Now for the hard part.

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"GOD FUCKING DAMMIT! STAY FUCKING STILL YOU PIECES OF SHIT! I WILL JUMP IN THERE AND DROWN YOU! IN AIR! PETA CAN'T DO SHIT UP HERE! WITH THEIR RECORD THEY MIGHT EVEN HELP ME!"

Screaming in frustration he plops his ass back down next to his 'basket' he made. He only managed to catch 1 fish, and it was small, it was yellow and had blue dots all over it. But every other fish just swam too fast and evaded him too well.

The fishing wasn't going well and he was starting to get tired and hungry.

Him and Ranboo are going to have to share the one fish he caught...

No, he's going to keep trying, Maybe tomorrow he can get Ranboo to help him fish, but for now, he's going to keep trying!

Picking up the spear once more, he walks carefully to another spot where he can see the fish lazily swimming.

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This oddity is terrible at catching prey. And just as terrible at catching fish!

How has it lived this long? It's tall, looks nimble and fast. Yet it fails to catch fish!

The creature was watching him the entire day and it had left earlier to get itself some food, comes back, still sees the golden haired oddity struggling. It caught 1 fish, but it's a minuscule thing.

It debated leaving before finally seeing the oddity stabbing a bigger fish with it's strange stick, finally catching something more worthy of a meal.

It's body language suggested tiredness, dropping the bigger fish in it's leaf sack, it begins to walk away, most likely back to the cave with its pack members.

The creature looks back at the pond, staring at the fish swimming in it.

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Tommy makes it back to the cave, he managed to get at least 1 other fish, bigger too! It's not much, but hopefully it's enough for both him and tall bitch.

Entering the cave, he's immediately greeted by Tubbo, who goes to tackle him but is grabbed and stopped. He notices that Tubbo now has a better covering on his side, where his injury used to be. Guess big guy patched him up again while he was gone.

Good.

He gets a confused warble and a hum from Tubbo, both of them curiously looking at his makeshift container. Tubbo backing up once he sees that it's fish, tall alien on the other hand, steps forward curiously, peering at the fish.

"Yea, never had this either, had fish back home but these things are weird looking, the big one's like a catfish.. but with an extra pair of fins" He comments, relighting the fire and he lets it rise up, feeling the heat from it.

Waiting a minute or 2 before he's satisfied with it's stability, he turns around and grabs the small fish. Plopping it on a rock as Tubbo shuffled closer from behind, curious on what he's doing to the fish.

Normally he likes fish filleted, nice and easy Y'know? However he can't really do that, doesn't have the luxury. So he simply just descales the fish with his knife. The small fish has similar scales like back home, so it's easy enough.

Once he's done, he spikes the thing on one of the sticks he has, and adjusts it over the fire.

Tubbo makes a disgusted look, but Ranboo is interested in his method. Maybe even looking a little hungry.

He does the same with the bigger fish, it's... slimier than the small one, doesn't really have scales, instead a rubber type of flesh, he doesn't know how to clean fish like a professional and he's not really picky honestly.

Once he's dealt with the majority of the slime, he repeats the same thing he did with the smaller fish and they both cook over the fire.

Tubbo buzzing around him, talking to him to just fill in the quiet, and then he does something familiar. He gestures to the tall alien.

"Ranboo" How the fuck is he supposed to say that?

"R... R-Rioanboo" he has to make a weird warbled sound, gather saliva at the back of his throat or something. 'Ranboo' seems to perk up at this, his tail wagging. Curling around itself and swishing side to side rapidly.

It's... kinda cute.

Oh don't tell him he's gonna end up getting another one?

Ranboo points to himself, "Ranboo" His throat doesn't make that sound man! "R.. Rrrr-aboo" he thinks he missed a pitch there. His throat hurts doing that, he coughed, rubbing his throat.

Ranboo makes a low croon, sounding disappointed- oh don't tell him- noooOOOOOO HE'S MAKING A SAD LOOK! STOP LOOKING SAD DAMMIT!!!

Tommy huffs, before sighing and deciding to make this easier on himself. "Boo" It was the last sound of his name that he used, maybe he can call him that instead?

Ranboo perked up so fast, his tail wagging and he lets out a happy screech. His hands coming together looking like a kitten that got praised.

He smiles at Ranboo, "You like Boo? Boo you shall be then, makes it easier on my throat anyways" Ranboo looked hesitant when he smiles, but returned the smile back. And suddenly he doesn't look like Maleficent with that smile, wanna know what he looks like? Toothless the fucking dragon. An awkward smile that doesn't fit his face.

He feels himself internally awe.

Goddammit he did it again didn't he?

Groaning and startling Ranboo, he turns back to the fishes and checked on them.

It was quiet for a few seconds.

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Guess who ruined it?

"Mommy!" Fucking Tubbo.

Tommy spins on his heel, whirling on Tubbo with a glare. "What the fuck man! I told you not to keep calling me that!" he near hisses at Tubbo, who only seems to enjoy his reaction and was pointing at him, saying something to Ranboo. Who looks back at him.

Don't you dARE-

"M-...Mommy..."

oh you've gotta be fucking kidding him, NOT HIM TOO!!

"BOO HOW COULD YOU!?!"

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Tommy munched on the smaller fish, giving the bigger one to Ranboo, who stared at him in shock, like he didn't believe one of the fish was for him and started crooning at him. Tommy doesn't know if he stepped on some alien culture thing with Ranboo and just, tried to get him to eat his damn fish. Ranboo finally calms down after giving a serious of warbles and small croons, and happily eaten the whole thing. Bones and all...

Yea, bones and all.

Clearly Ranboo eats more than Tommy, that's gonna raise an issue, he's not great at fishing. Tubbo is looking at Tommy's fish, disgusted. He teased him by pointing the stick at Tubbo, he did the equivalent of a shriek and flew away.

At least that means no parts will be wasted. Tommy munches on his fish, eating a decent amount, not yet being full. He sees Ranboo looking at his fish. Normally he'd refuse to even offer it, but... he can just eat a ration, so could Ranboo. But they don't know how long those will last.

So he makes a show of being full, even though he really wasn't, and gestures to Ranboo with the stick. "Do you want the rest of it big man?" Ranboo hesitated, as if not believing Tommy was really full (or maybe just wary of taking food form the human) but he accepts the stick cautiously, giving him long looks to check if it's really okay to eat it. Tommy does nothing, only looking back at the fire and only then does Ranboo eat the rest of it.

Tommy can last until maybe morning to fish again, maybe bringing the other 2 as well.

Tubbo buzzes, startled and alert, grabbing Tommy and Ranboos attentions quickly. He gestures outside of the cave and Tommy jumps forward, looking around, scanning for any possible threats.

He walks out carefully, looking around into the forest, searching for anything that could be staring back or any noise of a creature retreating. His foot hits something soft as he steps out. Looking down, he sees 3 fish, plop on the ground.

Ranboo and Tubbo join him, staring at the fish in confusion. There was no other nearby body of water besides the creek, and the fish sure as hell didn't come here on their own. They look around, finding no culprit. Tommy wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth, he grabs the fishes, and takes them inside, Ranboo looking happier knowing they had more fish.

He goes to clean the first fish. "Guess we have extra to eat, fucking random though..." he mumbles to himself. He sees something on the fish however, white semi sticky strands on the fish. He goes to remove it and it falls off the fish easily. Shrugging he goes to work prepping the fish.

He turns around to prep the second fish and yells in shock when he sees Ranboo swallow the fucking fish whole. UNCOOKED.

"WHAT THE FUCK MAN!?!?!"

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Notes: Yall im so excited, I have 2 characters I want to badly introduce, one you'll meet soon but the other is way more into the story, but trust me. You'll love the last character, they play an important role for Tommy to finally communicate. And the best part? You'll never know when or who they are! HAHAHAHAAAA!

In the meantime! You will get this guy! Who could they be? Clearly they think Tommy is shit at hunting and fishing! Maybe they will help out?