#fun fact: it sucks waking up from hitting your head real hard agaisnt the ground so try not to do that

[solar-cycle]

Slapped out a quick scene because this ✨️inspired me✨️

cw: minor terrorism, suicide threat, brief mention of hospitalization and head trauma

Tommy took a shaky breath, hand gripping the plastic casing of the burner phone. He reminded himself that he made sure that nobody was in the entire building beforehand, so nobody would even get hurt. Plus, wasn't this old place due for some demolition sometime?

"It's not even a big bomb," he whispered his reasoning to comfort himself. "It won't even cause much damage."

His nervous spiral was broken by the sound of a voice rumbling behind him. "What are you doing." It was his brother, Technoblade.

Tommy keeps his shoulders hunched and glances back. As he sees the menacing figure of Techno's hero costume, he indulges in a memory. When Techno first debuted, he had wanted to be named after some greek mythology figure. Some great warrior or god of some kind. To impress upon his enemies (which currently included Tommy, not that he knew that) his "strength, power, and elegance" as Techno had put it. When he came back from his debut he was sulking in that sort of half-frustrated way Techno moped. Apparently the Hero committee had turned down his name and made him debut as 'The Blade of Justice' and he had absolutely loathed it.

A shuffling snapped him out of the reverie. "If you aren't doing anything then get out of here, kid. We don't have time to sta-"

"I have a bomb," Tommy hurriedly interrupted. "I'll set it off if you get too close." He tucked the burner into his pocket and held his thumb near the detonate button, turning around to face his brother.

What little of his face that wasn't obscured by his mask was twisted in skepticism. Tommy saw it in the way that he stood that Techno was nervous, though. He had one foot tilted away from him, slightly behind the other that was facing him. As if he would rather run away than be here. It was a stance Tommy saw on him every time he was forced to socialize by their dad.

"A…bomb?" The question was flat but his voice dripped with disbelief. "You know empty threats won't keep us around or anything. We have real work to do out there so just...go do whatever it is that-"

"No-" Tommy snapped, "Im fucking serious you prick. I have a detonator in my pocket and if you don't give me a damn good reason why I shouldn't set it off right now, I'll push it."

Blade tilted his head, "I can just tackle and restrain you."

Tommy's throat felt dry. After years of wrestling as kids he knew personally that you can't get out of a Techno hold, no matter how much you bit and screamed and kicked. He glanced at the edge of the roof next to him. He was watching the building for any extra movement at a safe distance for about half an hour, trying to psych himself up. In a quick movement that startled Blade, he hopped back so he was closer to the edge.

Blade took a step forward and Tommy felt something rise in his throat. As soon as he took another towards him, it unstuck itself.

"If you come any closer I'm jumping off the roof."

The silence was tense for a few moments, as Blade shuffled his foot back, putting on a faux relaxed posture. Both his feet were facing Tommy, so he had his full attention.

"Icarus is on the way," Techno spoke softly. Faintly Tommy remembered how Techno always refused to use assigned hero names, instead using the ones that he had given everyone. "He can help you down, and get you somewhere safe. Don't do anything stupid."

But Tommy was never that good at listening to his family. With shaky hands he lifted the rewired burner out of his pocket. "Not if I can make a call first." The words were hard to say past the lump that had lodged itself into his throat again. They came out as a gentle whisper, that he was half sure was shaking.

Techno shifted, looking more uncomfortable, "You haven't been that bad so far, kid. You don't have to do this. If you let go of the cell you'll be in way less trouble if you get taken in."

Tommy's face twisted. He wouldn't have had to do anything bad at all if his family had ever given him their time of day when they were all out of costume. His voice is sharp as he grits out, "I'll fucking do it. I'll blow the place sky high. I don't care what you say because you can't fucking catch me." He may have overhyped the amount of explosives that were actually there, but that wasn't important.

Right as Techno opens his mouth to say something, his eyes snap to the sky behind Tommy. Tommy faintly heard the rustling of feathers that he had trained himself into listening carefully for. Phil was on his way. He twists around, and sees his father bearing down on him, wings folded for a dive. He's going to tackle Tommy or grab him and wheel him around a little. W8thout thinking, his hand tightens on the phone as he sees his father bearing down on him. A thunderous noise shakes the earth as Phil makes contact.

Suddenly, he finds himself blinking awake, head fuzzy and incoherent. After a few moments of trying to see clearly through his eyes, he finally scrounges up the thought that he must have fallen unconscious somehow. It worries him and he hears a sound pick up in pace nearby him.

His vision clears more and he sees a white room, packed with the three heroes he had been chasing for months talking in a clump at the foot of his…hospital? bed. His mouth feels clumsy, like he had been given novocaine as he tries asking "Where the fuck am I?" The slurring makes it little more than a few vague mumbles and hisses. The heads in conversation turn to look at him.

Phil steps forwards, spreading his wings. Techno and Wilbur part around them, letting him dominate the space as he approaches Tommy's bedside. As his senses retur , he can still feel that his mask is in place, so at least there's that.

Phil flares his wings and speaks in a grim, unforgiving tone. "You are in the hero tower's medical ward. You blew up part of a building and are considered enough of a threat to need to be detained."

Tommy feels a stone drop in his stomach. He caught only about half of that, but he got the general idea. He was so fucked. He was going to either get revealed or get put into fucking jail and his family probably wouldn't even know he was missing from home.

Much to his own alarm, the noise picks up in frequency and he starts shedding tears behind the mask. Phil's face frowns slightly. In his delirium, Tommy thinks that his father is upset at him for crying.

Eventually, after a few moments of silence from the heroes, and heavy breathing from Tommy, the noise that he begins to register as a heart monitor slows down its beeps. He moves to rub his eyes and something on his hand bumps into his mask. He looks at it for a moment before recognizing an IV is taped into the back of his hand.

Phil clears his throat, "We need to scan your brain to ensure there is no head trauma. We will be removing your mask in case of any metal inside of it and we are permitted to keep it afterward." Tommy freezes, heart caught in his throat. "If you agree to behave and go through a quick correctional course, we can release you back into the public without revealing any of your record publicly."

Tommy was being crushed by the weight on his chest. It felt like he couldn't get enough air. The beeping came back twice as strong, and Phil grimaced before reaching a hand towards his face. Tommy had his eyes screwed shut, frozen in fear as Phil unclasped the mask and pulled it off slowly.

The room was dead silent, and then a choked gasp from what sounded like Songbird. "Tommy?"

Au where SBI are heroes and Tommy becomes a villain to spend time with them

Explanation:

Basically Phil, Wilbur, and Techno are all superheroes, the best ones in the city, but because they're so busy saving lives all the time they accidentally start to neglect their youngest, Tommy. So Tommy realizes that the only way to see his family is when they're at work.

The problem is that Phil, Techno, and Wilbur don't want to let tommy become a hero since they don't want him to get hurt

So Tommy becomes a villain instead

Turns out he's a bit too good at being a villain, because his family can never catch him.

Cue his family neglecting Tommy more, but spending more time trying to catch this new villain who just seems to know exactly how to outsmart them.

Tommy realizes that he can be himself around his family when he's the villain, loud laugh, funny jokes that annoy them.. all without the tension and guilt that all of them seem to have around him. So Tommy stops bothering to try and spend time with his family as a civilian, after all, all he needs to do is blow up an entire building and his family will come.