Summary: Tubbo was not having a great day. First he and Ranboo get caught, screamed at, and now he got tossed in a cell with a feral human that killed 8 aliens on this ship.

He just hopes they kill him quick.

(They don't kill him, in fact, they seem to like him)

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"Let go of My WING YOU STUPID MUTATION OF A SPLEEN!"

Tubbo struggled as much as he could against the stupid Dreamons hold but because of his... admittedly small size, he's not really putting much of a fight. That, and they have a painful hold on his translucent wings.

He kicks, pulls and pushes as much as he can before eventually just tiring himself out as they continue to drag him and Ranboo off to what he assumes are the cells.

Ranboo screeches and tries widening his mouth to bite them but they quickly shoved a muzzle on him and tied his freakishly long arms to his back. Everytime he twitched too much in any of their directions he was roughly poked and shoved.

Tubbo buzzes angrily at them. "You can't keep us here forever! The second I break out I'm crashing this whole ship!" He received a disgusting rag over his mouth. He tried using his hands to y'know, take it off, but they started tying him in ropes.

"Do we put him in one of the cells?" One of the guards asked the other.

The other shook their head. "No, we only wanted the Enderian, the Anthocapradae is just extra waste. Chuck it in the human's cell, should get rid of the insect" Tubbo froze.

Human? They have a human? How in the galaxy did they get a HUMAN? Humans are way up in the danger ranks of deathworlders. Destructive, vicious, and very adaptive. So much more he can add to that but he kinda wants to focus on one thing they mentioned.

They're going to chuck him in with the human?! His panicked energy comes back and he thrashes to the best he can, with determination to not get ripped to shreds thanks. Ranboo also shrieks and tries escaping their hold.

2 of the guards hold firmly on Ranboo while the one holding him squeezes him where he struggles to breath. He stopped squirming and they stopped squeezing. He coughed into the rag and glared at the one holding him the best he can while being held.

Said guard quickly starts opening a cell and he realizes this is the human's cell.

He peers inside and sees that the room is pretty empty and yknow, a cell. He sees spore flowers at the very top like every other cell they've passed by. Luckily (Or maybe unluckily) his species were known to be resistant towards the effects of the hanging flowers, even munching on them occasionally.

He sees a nest of ragged blankets with a lump underneath them, he quickly realizes the lump is breathing.

Fuck, maybe humans aren't resistant to the spore flowers, maybe they'll stay knocked out. Yea, surely humans aren't that adaptive or resistant, he knows they eat poisons and stuff, but maybe they're sleeping and won't eat him.

The lump shifts upwards.

Shit! The guards noticed it moving and frantically tossed him in the cell. He hits the cold ground roughly, he buzzes in pain. OH fucking perfect! He lands faced away from the human and towards the cell door that's now closed with a hiss.

"TUBBO!!!!"

Before it closes he hears Ranboos shriek of panic and worry.

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NO!! No No No NO! Dammit he has to get in there, he has to protect Tubbo! Tubbo doesn't stand a chance against a human, especially tied up. If he wasn't tied up he might be able to sting them and poison them but in his position, he's vulnerable.

He shrieks, cries, howls. Everything to try and get loose from the stupid dreamon guards. He almost succeeds too before they opened his cell from across the humans and shoved him quickly before shutting the cell tight.

He tries to quickly get up but he quickly falls to the floor. The spore flowers quickly do their work on making him succumb to sleep. He fights it for as long as he can. Looking up to see Tubbo and the human in the cell.

His vision slowly goes black as he sees the human cautiously walking towards Tubbos body. Vulnerable and tied up. It sparks a deep rage inside Ranboo, but even that spark quickly dies out and before he knows it, he blacks out.

Last he sees is the human laying a gentle hand on Tubbos side.

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Fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUUUUUCK!

What does he do?! He's tied up, faced away from the human with his wings exposed and cold.

This is it for him isn't it? He's going to get torn apart and eaten. Or maybe it won't eat him, but he definitely won't live this encounter.

Maybe he should play dead, will it bother him if he's dead?

He hears soft footsteps. He starts trembling, his wings making a soft buzzing sound. Fuck, he doesn't want to die.

He squirms a little, hoping the ropes can get loosened. No such luck. The footsteps get slightly closer, slow and steady. Like a predator creeping up on unsuspecting prey.

Maybe not completely like that but his brain isn't helping in the slightest, he trembles more and more as the human gets closer.

He can practically feel the heat from how close the human is to his back. He quickly shuts his eyes and can only pray that his death is quick. That it won't play with him like some predators are known to do.

He feels something warm touch his side and he flinches hard. The feeling is gone. A couple tense seconds go by and it's back, very hesitant. But gentle, warm.

He feels the lightest of touches on his wing, the wing flings itself away from the touch, trembling and continues making the light buzz sound. He feels a small tug on the ropes. Slowly he opens his eyes, taking a peek at the human that is now in front of him.

It's scrawny looking, long skinny arms, golden hair on it's head. His eyes widen more, taking in the human that seems to be curiously looking at Tubbos body.

The human, feeling eyes on it, makes direct eye contact with Tubbo and Tubbo holds his breath and freezes in place. Terrified that the slightest movement will make the human lash out. It has the clearest blue eyes he's ever seen, intense and bright.

It barks something at him, though not loudly it still makes him flinch at the sound. It spoke again, softer. Making gestures at him, or more accurately, at the ropes. It makes a move to touch him and he lets out a pathetic hum of fear, breathing quite heavily from holding his breath.

It stops, then slowly reaches out again. Not like Tubbo could stop the human, he expects pain, a sharp tug, maybe even a scratch. But instead he felt the ropes loosen. Slowly but surely, the human starts untying the ropes keeping Tubbo in place.

Excuse me, Wot?

Sure enough, after a couple more seconds, with the occasional tug here and weird human language, the ropes are off. He goes to remove the gag on him but the human beats him to it and he tries hard not to instinctively sting the human then and there as it gently gets the gag off his mouth.

And now he's free from rope, and face to face with a human that he desperately wants to scramble and fly away from if it didn't mean possibly setting the human off.

Stars, what did he get himself into?

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Notes: Anthocapradae is literally just 3 latin words mixed together that describe a Bee, Goat and Deer that I made up. Apparently there's also something called Antilocapridae which is kinda like an antelope almost. A Pronghorn