Dream a Nightmare

Sapnap, Tubbo, and TommyInnit needed a plan to deal with the other Dream.

They talked for a while before TommyInnit came up with the brilliant idea of hitting him with axes until he died. Dream almost physically rolled his eyes, but he also smiled slightly. TommyInnit was innocent, in some ways. A pawn for others to use, if they could make it seem like he was doing what he wanted. But he was also an agent of chaos. Not the sort of person to have many friends. Dream could see why he needed protection.

Each of them grabbed an iron axe and a shield, and they made plans to ambush the other Dream. TommyInnit said that the other Dream had the disc in his inventory, and if they could kill him, it would be theirs.

Dream watched as they geared up. They didn't bother much with armor. The plan didn't seem to involve them surviving, at least not specifically. It was more geared towards dealing the most damage possible to the other Dream.

And indeed, as they were getting down the ravine where the fight was meant to happen, they spotted the other Dream on one of the walls. He was crouching back, but they could still see his enchanted armor glowing in the shadows.

TommyInnit rushed them down, arrows from the other Dream forcing them to jump and try to survive. Tommy landed heavily, losing almost all of his health in the jump down. Then he turned to the side, and there was the other Dream.

The arrow leaped from the string with a crack  of released tension, and buried itself in Tommy's chest. Dream watched with a morbid sense of fascination as TommyInnit immediately reappeared at his respawn point. How did he live, when his lives should have been expended? Maybe....

Dream frowned, as Sapnap fell to Dream as well.

Could it be possible that the binding of lives hadn't occurred? He had thought that only having three lives was natural, but...

Something inside him agreed with that statement. Like a fragment of him knew what he did not. He watched TommyInnit and Sapnap as they descended back into the ravine, taking a bed with them to set their spawn points down in the cave.

After regrouping with Tubbo, who hadn't been killed, Dream sensed something. He swiveled around and saw the other Dream. He was searching. And he was getting closer. A sense of panic grew in Dream's chest, like a dark weed. This Dream did not make mistakes. He knew.

Dream reached out and pressed against something.

Below him, he saw TommyInnit look up sharply.

"Something wrong, Tommy?" Tubbo asked, putting his hand on TommyInnit's arm. He seemed concerned.

TommyInnit glanced down at him, then looked back toward the other Dream.

"Just a weird feeling," he said simply, narrowing his eyes at the wall that the other Dream was coming from.

"What sort of feeling?" Tubbo asked, confused.

"It's nothing," TommyInnit replied, putting a comforting hand on Tubbo's shoulder. "It'll be fine. Have our plans ever gone wrong before?"

"Yes," Sapnap said, butting in. "Pretty much every time."

"It won't this time. I'm sure," TommyInnit insisted, standing.

Dream pushed harder. It was like trying to force a wall to move out of the way.

TommyInnit looked up again, and Tubbo cast another concerned glance his way. This time, TommyInnit didn't dismiss the feeling, watching the wall that the other Dream was approaching intently.

There wasn't much time, and he wasn't doing anything. Dream pushed harder, shoving against TommyInnit's will, trying to get him to take action. By now, it was too late anyway.

The other Dream burst out of the wall with an arrow loaded. TommyInnit, who had been watching by because of Dream's pressure, immediately shouted,

"Run!"

The three of them scrambled backwards, running from the other Dream like mice before a cat. As they ran, Sapnap got caught in a pool of lava, slowing him and damaging him enough for the other Dream to catch up and stab him. Sapnap glanced down at the blade protruding from his chest before he disappeared into smoke, his items spilling into the lava.

TommyInnit urged Tubbo forward as he stopped for a moment to gawk, and they ran under a patch of gravel. Tommy, looking around desperately, motion Tubbo to stop on the other side, and as the other Dream got closer, he broke a single block, sending the gravel crashing down between them.

The other Dream climbed up onto the top to get over it, and Tommy drew his bow back with a determined expression, and released the arrow.