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Yeah maybe one or two of you should? Good to go in pairs and like, bring a radio with you just in case you need back up

- Nessa

“he can’t leave the safe house or odette will get an alarm, and she’s still talking to jupiter in the hospital room so, he’s still here.” phil shrugs.

“he’s probably hiding from lepus.” kristin smirks, laughing under her breath, “ he used to do that with tommy.”

“oh don’t remind me.” phil groans.

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Who's on guard/patrolling duty now?-Y

“Techno is doing it right now with Sam.” George leans back, “I think they’re going until noon.”

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Genuine question has anyone checked up on Wilbur? I'm very worried since Lepus is there and, well... y'know how he is....

- Nessa

“I haven’t seen Wilbur.” Kristin says, “though I also haven’t heard shouting, so either he’s sleeping somewhere or Lepus has him tied up, or something.”

“maybe we should actually look for him..?” Phil hums from where he sits next to Kristin.

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You did remember to test yourself right? Also, how's the work coming along? -Y

“of course, i test kristin and she tests me. We do it as soon as we wake up, just incase.” he explains, and then he tilts his head with a soft sigh, “it’s been going, but a lot of our information I have to unlock from my old laptops I had to leave behind. So it’s been hard connecting to their hard drives remotely.”

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*pops in to check on Cogs* Have the daily mind control and bot checks been done yet?-Y

“kristin’s been doing them with me, so yep, and no bots.” he glanced up from his laptop, “thank god, right?”

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How's Kristin doing?

“im doing okay, still recharging my own magic a bit more before i can start stockpiling medicine and such to help out.” she waves from where she sits on a large couch with what looks like attached ottomans. ranboo and tommy lay on her left, sam, ponk, and quackity in front of her, and sapnap, and puffy on her right. she looks like some sort of tree of life.

she’s definitely using some sort of low level passive magic considering how her eyes glow.

“phil’s been treating me like a sick puppy these past few days, though whatever medicine Odette and Nightmare are making for tubbo almost fully recharged me.” she smiles, “and i’m just glad to be able to sit here and help people sleep and heal up. it’s nice, it reminds me of when the kids used to play in the fields behind the house and they’d come in at night all scratched up and tired as hell.”

she gently reaches a hand down to tommy’s hair and starts to play with it, “those were good times.”

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It’s been a few days since you’ve all settled in the INTERPOL base. Odette has been working restlessly in that time, trying to figure out every single intricacy of her plan.

it’s simple:

dream returns to town hall with odette in tow, since he was captured to track her down in the first place. once they make it into town hall, odette will release two bots. these bots will run around and find all of the exits, entrances, and any other useful bits of information.

once all the information is secured, george will use the original blueprint found in the bot, match it with the information the bots have, and will work alongside everyone to map out a plan to get in and get Schlatt’s computer into his hands. From there, jupiter, george, and fundy will figure out how to get into the computer with the help of sam. during this time, kristin and niki will work on recharging magic and healing while techno trains.

and while the plan is seemingly fool proof, it leads to one question: what is happening with the soul-merging?

which is where odette finds herself pacing.

tubbo is getting worse and tommy and ranboo refuse to leave his side. she can’t blame them at all, she wished someone had done that for her. not that anyone even knew she had soul-merged. dream works around the clock to feed tubbo different medications, and to teach ranboo and tommy how to take care of him. odette works on a cure of chicken noodle soup and warm towels for him for the moments he’s awake, and she works on transforming the saved vials into medication to literally heal his soul.

she once read a book called chicken noodle soup for the soul, she never expected to take it literally.

she’s standing in the kitchen when jupiter approaches her. they’d been spending all of their time practicing coding— and asking sam for advice on the whole joann/odette situation. it had been revealed that joann’s bot was leaking a mind control gas that allowed everyone to fall for schlatt’s trick after george had done a “robo-autopsy” and everyone had felt sick after learning the truth.

jupiter felt sick everytime she thought of it, even though she knew most— if not all of her real memories of odette were actually her.

“hi.” she whispers and odette jumps from where she stands by Tubbo’s bed, turning as she pushes her glasses up and onto her head. his heart monitor beeps a constant tune, and his eyes lay closed, asleep and peaceful.

“hi, jupiter.” odette smiles softly, “that’s what you wanna be called now, right?”

“mhm.” jupiter pauses. everything they had planned to say falling out of their mind.

odette sighs, clasping her hands infront of her, “look… I’m sorry about all this. i should’ve been more careful, or tried to reach out to you all sooner.”

“I feel like you shouldn’t be apologizing for all of this. you… you probably went through a lot.” jupiter sighs, “i wish i had noticed that you were different.”

“schlatt’s only getting more powerful. it’s not your fault you didn’t notice. No one did.” odette steps closer, gently holding out a hand to cup jupiters face, “i’m so sorry, jupiter.”

“don’t be, ode.” jupiter whispers, stepping closer to grab odette’s hand that rests on her cheek, “we’re gonna move forward together.”

“together…” odette breaks into a grin for the first time in a few days.

“i missed you. the real you.” jupiter looks up, smiling soft.

“me too.” odettes voice barely comes out, but she closes her eyes and bumps their heads together.

the calm before the storm.

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Wait where are we going?

- Nessa

"INTERPOL made a base for me with plenty of supplies to fix... everything." Odette sighs out, "I know you've all been through one hell of a ride, but we have to fix things with Schlatt before we can go on personal missions. So no bots."

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Anything else we should know before we set out?-Y

“we should… “ Odette pauses and Kristin curses as she stares outside.

“Kristin?” Phil says and Wilbur’s breath hitches as he watches his Mother’s gaze flick red, then black, then back to its usual color.

“We need to leave. now.” Odette says, sensing whatever impending doom Kristin sees.

“But what about—“

“—TUBBO!” Ranboo shouts, blipping out of existence and catching the falling teen.

“Tubbo?” Tommy turns, panic clear on him, almost palpable.

“Pick him up, Tommy.” Odette says, “we have no time.”

“But what about..—“

“No. We have to go!” Odette shouts, summoning a sword, that glitches in her weak state. She then slams it down into the ground and Phil begins ushering people out, Eret running alongside Niki as he brings supplies to a car, Odette telling him the address as he passes her.

“He’s sick!” Ranboo screams at Odette, “and you don’t care?!”

“It’s his soul-merge.” Nightmare snaps, going to roughly grab Ranboo but pausing half-way, “you need me to tell you how much it’s gonna hurt when he wakes up? Huh? Move on.”

“Dream.” Odette snaps under her breath, and he turns with a bewildered look at the fact that she just said his actual Hero name and not his vigilante name.

“Fuck off,” She snaps, her eyes glowing before he’s quickly moving out the door.

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…quick question, but are we sure none of us are also bots like ‘Vivian’ was?-Y

“I… let me check.” Odette takes a step closer and holds a hand out to Kristin.

“Kris? If you would..?” She smiles and slowly, Kristin approaches with a small hint of trepidation. She pauses, gently moving her sweater out of the way to reveal a large red gem on a necklace.

“I can’t believe that thing is still in tact.” Odette laughs, “Hardcore.”

“Hardcore indeed.” Kristin says, and Odette takes the gem in her hands, and slowly it begins to glow.

“Let her see the world.” Kristin murmurs, and Odette whispers right after, “show us who is fake.”

There’s a pause, before the necklace flickers out and Odette steps back, her eyes glowing red for a few faint moments before she nods and turns back to Kristin.

“No outlines.” She whispers and Odette nods.

“We’re clear.”

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“I… there’s a high chance Schlatt’s gonna catch us on the way there.” Kristin finally speaks, watching the room carefully.

“I know.” Odette hums, crossing her arms and glancing over her shoulder as if something is going to come out and attack her.

“So..?” Ranboo says.

“We’ll… we’re gonna have to fight him.” Odette sighs, “i can lead the assault and—“

“you’re too weak— i can.” Techno steps up, “if we go in together we’ll work it out. We always did, Odes.”

“Keep anyone who’s too weak in the back, if they need to fall back they can…” Odette pauses, her mind mapping out something before she nods, “We’ll go right next to town hall. I can see if I can intercept Puffy and… hopefully, we’ll be okay.”

“Puffy will help, she always does.” Kristin nods, “and… and you have me. if you need me.”

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Since that’s done…Nightmare mentioned Schlatt wanting to kill us. Should we move base?-Y

“yes, as quick as we can. Sorry for compromising you Y, but i need everyone to come with.” Odette sighs, carding a hand through her hair, something Joann didn’t do frequently, but it had always been Odettes nervous habit. Something clicks in Phil’s mind.

“Okay, and where do we go?” Tommy asks, “because we’re out of options.”

“INTERPOL has a base set up for us.” Odette says, “we’ll lay low for a day or two, regain as much energy as possible, and reveal Schlatt once and for all.”

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I can do it from here. Firstly, do you promise that for 15 minutes after i finish speaking this, you will speak only truths, and if anything you say could be possibly misinterpreted by the ones listening, to fully explain to the point where you are confident the ones listening fully understand what you are trying to convey, half truths cannot be said, and statements such as questions or exclamations which may mislead the ones listening to assume something incorrect should be explained?(1/2)-Y

Once everyone does as told, and Odette thanks Y profusely, she begins to explain everything from start to finish. From Schlatt knocking her out, to the mass illusions he was doing, to finding her way home, and by the end of it she’s apologizing with tears in the corners of her eyes.

Wilbur cups her face and embraces her, Cogs moving over to get Nightmarw up off the floor while more people around the room relax and slowly move around.

“I’m so sorry. I should’ve gotten here sooner.”

“You’re okay, Odie.”

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*cough* I may be able to help with the…not trusting issue. Would prefer if personal questions were asked instead. (Y’s power is sort of a promise thing, if she can get them to agree to like not tell lies for the next half an hour, they cant tell lies unless they want a headache so bad it’s essentially torture)-Y

“Y! Yes,” Odette quickly explains Y’s power, as if she already knew it, and people blink for a few seconds before Odette huffs, “Y, can you just come down here and do it physically? It would be so much easier.”

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Wait there’s a team heading out??

“Yea, i sent a group of my best, and now they’re probably in the midst of a fight I can’t help.” Odette puts her hands on her head and sighs softly, blinking back tears in her eyes.