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Inspired by Misery Business - lemonskittles on https://archiveofourown.org/works/32541352/chapters/8071647
Tommy's leg was bouncing on the floor, nervous. He had tried to stop it before, but it had its own mind and he was too busy overthinking every outcome. He was currently in the Heroes Tower with Ranboo and Tubbo. Now that he thought about it, why were they here? Oh yeah. They needed the jobs. Tubbo, Ranboo and Tommy looked at each other nervously. They needed the jobs as Ranboo couldn't work as many jobs as he did right now. He had three jobs. Yeah, you read that right! Three! But with his social anxiety, it was a miracle he still had all of his jobs.
So here they were. At the fuckings Hero Tower, The Sleepy Tower! It sounds like an innocent name, but the meaning of it was not. They always slept because they were looking for villains and vigilantes who were illegal in the SMP. And Tommy was one! With Tubbo and Ranboo of course. After the sunset, he was a vigilante in the name of Big Man. Might have been a dumb name for some, but Tommy liked it. Maybe or maybe not he was screamed at by Tubbo for said name, but he was and is a Big Man, so that's what he is called!
"Thomathy Innit?" He heard from a person who stood near a door. He got mad at Tubbo for choosing that stupid name, which even isn't his! He glared at Tubbo then looked up and saw the Nihachu! He almost screamed like a fangirl- um, boy. The fact that he was going to work for the heroes and would, of course, see them, went completely over his head! "Y-yes?" He tried to sound as professional as possible, but his voice was a little, up a whole octave for that to work. Ranboo and Tubbo looked longingly at Tommy as began to walk away. He looked back and tried to smile reassuring. The Nihachu saw and walked over.
"I can see you are friends, so if you are all trying to get one of the jobs, maybe you can come too." She smiled. They all smiled back and thanked her a lot of times, probably more than they should've but who cares! The Nihachu chuckled a little and said to follow her. Of course, Tommy followed her, so did the other two.
"So I see you want a job as an intern, correct?" They nodded, Tommy was a little out of it because he tried to walk as Nihachu walked, which was a lot faster than himself when he just walked. "So you need to choose which hero domain you want to be an intern here." The hero said while giving him a pen and paper. He nodded and was brought to a room with some other people sitting on some of the chairs scattered across the room. "Wait here until your name is called, okay? Have a good interview." She said with a smile, walking to some of the others in the room, also having a pen and paper, some talking to some other heroes. "Let's see what I can do," Tommy said as he found them a chair each near the door, his fight or flee instinct wanting to run if he needed to.
They all sat down and looked from the paper to each other again. "Uhm, what should we choose?" Tubbo asked unsurely. "I see there are three that sound like we can do," Ranboo answered, also unsure what to do. They were in the dragon's den. They began to read.
Number 1, The Warden and TimeJump under The WorkShop. To check if you are the intern we are looking for, you need three (3) tests.
1, Interview as a pen and paper test. 2, An hour to make anything you want. 3, A puzzle to solve.
Number 2, The Totem and Punz under Rescue and Getaway. To check if you are the intern we are looking for, you need three (3) tests.
1, A verbal interview. 2, A parkour. 3, A rescue scenario.
Number 3, SBI - Philza, The Siren and The Blade under SBI. To check if you are the intern we are looking for, you need three (3) tests.
1, Verbal interview. 2, A riddle. 3, Escape room.
When your name is called out go into the door you want to intern under. Good luck.
-The heroes.
"Huh. How nice." Ranboo said sarcastically after reading it all. "I think we all know which one's we're gonna choose," Tubbo said after asking what one of the words was. 'Stupid dyslexia' Tubbo had thought angrily but had thanked Tommy. "Oh no, does that mean I have to go to the Top with SBI?" Tommy asked anxiously. They weren't surprised as Tommy have had the most meetups with them and scared shitless they would recognise him.
"I guess so, Boss Man." Tubbo tried to comfort. An unspoken, we all have, was unspoken. They got interrupted in their moment by a hero walking up to them. "Hello!" They heard a woman speak happily towards them. She was wearing a long pirate coat with nice boots, plain brown trousers with a white shirt with a shirt collar with ruffles. On top of that, she had a pirate sword and a big pirate hat on top of her big white puffy hair. Captain Puffy. Tommy almost shrieked like a fangirl again but caught himself and just smiled very happy to meet one of his favourite heroes in real life, her face to his face. He was so absolutely star struck. "Uhm uh- Hello, Miss Puffy." Tommy stuttered put, happily surprised to meet one of the top 10 heroes but at the same time scared of Puffy's powers.
The other two boys tried to hold down their chuckles at Tommy' behaviour but Puffy only smiled at him with a bit of a laugh in it. "Hello." She said as she took out her hand to be shaken by the three of them. She was a little surprised as she saw them just looking at her hand a little scared. "So, have you decided for who you want intern under?" She asked, trying to lighten the mood a little while getting her own chair and sitting down on it the wrong way. (You know with the back of the chair at your stomach?) They all nervously nodded hesitantly. Puffy noticed but brushed it off as they were going to meet the heroes. "Uh, y-yes, I-I think so?" Tubbo answered a little hesitant again. "So what're you choosing if I can ask?"Puffy said as she tilted her head a little to the right.
"Oh, uh. One for each of us." Tommy answered, definitely nervous to meet the fucking Sleepy Bois! So yeah."Cool, I need to go speak to the others. Goodbye and good luck!" She said as she placed the chair back before going to another hero at the other side of the room.
"Thomathy Innit?" Someone called out. After hearing it, Tommy groaned and Tubbo and Ranboo chuckled before seeing Tommy slowly get up. "Tommy. We need the jobs you know? We can get better shit with the money, so be careful and all that." Tubbo said quietly, Tommy almost not hearing but smiling reassuringly at his Best Friends, not at all what he felt inside.
'Of I go, into the Dragons den.' Tommy thought as he got to the door having a name tag saying Sleepy Bois internship. Tommy took one breath in and opened the door.