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The Quest For Blue

Some light-hearted Hurt No Comfort for a tiny Ghostbur as he searches for blue to give to his family. ^^ 2.1k words

The day is like any other in Ghostbur’s ghostly life. The sun is shining, the sea breeze blows through Friend’s blue wool, and he’s hanging out with Tommy in front of his tnret. The tiny ghost flops on his pet sheep and points to the left. “Let’s go say hi to Tommy, Friend!”

Friend baas and trots over to the dirty crime boy. Ghostbur floats up and sits on his younger brother’s shoulder, floating a few millimeters above his clothing. “Hello, Tommy! Lovely weather we’re having, isn’t it?”

Tommy walks into his tnret and gives Ghostbur a strange look as if the small ghost had grown antlers. Ghostbur feels his head to make sure he didn’t. “No it’s not. It’s raining out.”

“What?”

Ghostbur looks back outside the tnret and sure enough, rain is pouring down on the small island. Lightning flashes and thunder rolls over the trio, sounding as if the sky was falling down. The small spector gasps and floats at the entrance. “Friend! Friend, come here! Don’t get wet! I won’t be able to hug you then!”

The docile sheep walks under the wool shelter and starts chewing on Tommy’s torn shirt. Ghostbur opens his mouth to scold his dearest sheep, but Tommy lets out a heavy sounding sigh that stirs a sour emotion in Ghostbur’s soul. He floats back up to him and asks, “What’s wrong, Tommy?”

His brother’s voice sounds about as gloomy as the sudden turn in weather outside. “I’ve done a lot of bad, Ghostbur. I’ve hurt a lot of people. I am alone. I have no friends.”

Ghostbur huffs and folds his arms. Are they not friends? Does Ghostbur not do his best to cheer Tommy up every day? “Well at least you have me! I’m your friend, Tommy!”

Tommy merely sighs and turns away. “I’ve hurt you, too, Ghostbur. You’re stuck here because of me.”

He tilts his head in confusion. “I chose to be here, Tommy! Lads on Tour, remember?”

Tommy lays on his bedroll and doesn’t respond. Ghostbur takes out some blue dye and sets it next to him. “Here, have some blue.”

The tall child closes his eyes, a quiet pained expression on his face. The ghostly tiny turns to his giant sheep and says, “This may take more blue than I thought. We’ll have to go out and find some!” He looks outside. “Oh, but the rain…”

“Baa!”

“Oh! You’re right, Friend!” Ghostbur beams at the blue sheep. “I can just walk under you!”

And so, the two set off through the rain, heading into an oak and birch forest that soon turns into a spruce forest with snow covering the ground. Ghostbur notices the snow drifts getting deeper and deeper until he’s forced to fly out from under Friend, who baas at him in protest to the cold snow, or risk melting in the ground. “I’m sorry, Friend! I was sure I was going the right way but we haven’t seen anything but red poppies here…”

A shadow falls over the duo and Ghostbur looks up. A large dark grey wing is extended above them and a tall, dark figure towers over them. A veil hangs off of his large green and white hat, hiding his face, and a dark grey and green robe falls off his shoulders. One wing is wrapped in bandages. Ghostbur smiles at the taller gentleman. “Hello, Phil!”

“Wil, what are you doing all the way out here in the snow? You’ll melt.” Although he can’t see his face, Phil’s voice is soft, interlaced with worry.

Ghostbur cheerfully answers him. “I’m getting blue for Tommy! Do you have any that I can use?”

A few tears drip down to the ground from under the veil. “All of the blue you gave me was used up, remember? I miss Wilbur.”

Ghostbur frowns, an uncomfortable feeling in his chest. “You sound like you could use more blue. I’ll make sure to stop by here on my way back and give you some when I find it!”

Philza doesn’t react to what he says. “Why are you all the way out here in the middle of a snow storm? Are you lost?”

Ghostbur shakes his head, then pauses and scratches the back of his neck, sitting atop Friend’s head. “We were trying to get back to L’manburg. I know I have some blue in my chests there!”

Philza shakes his head, the wind blowing the snow around them in a blindingly white swirl for just a second. “Oh, Ghostbur… L’Manburg is gone. It was blown up.”

A pit of dread forms in the tiny’s soul. His brows knit together and he looks at Philza in horrified confusion, denial already forming a wall in his mind. “What?”

The giant birdman points with an ominous finger ahead of them. “If you’d like to reach L’Manburg, go through that portal. The snow storm is picking up. You don’t want to be caught in it.”

Ghostbur blinks and looks ahead at the previously empty forest path. Sure enough, a Nether portal stands tall, the brilliant purple shine cutting through the snow with ease. “Oh, you’re right! Philza, would you- Oh!”

A gust of wind comes again and Ghostbur shuts his eyes and nestles into Friend’s wool to avoid the worst of the snow. When he looks up again, his father is gone, vanished into the strange pine forest. “Oh… Well, I suppose we’d better head into the Nether if we want to get that blue, Friend. Off we go!”

Friend trudges through the snow drifts and steps through the portal into the blistering heat of the Nether dimension. It’s oddly silent, no piglin sounds or ghast blasts to greet them on the other side. Just the ominous vwooping sound of the portal behind them as they step onto the warm netherack.

Ghostbur takes a shaky breath, gripping Friend’s wool in his hands. The sheep headbutts him lightly. He pushes back with a laugh. “Yes, yes, I know. Just a short walk, right? We won’t be here long enough for something bad to happen.”

And with that, the two set off into the Nether. Friend’s ears flick from time to time as they traverse the dry area. After a while, the scenery starts looking the same. He swears they’ve passed the same lava pit at least three times now. This trip is turning out to be much longer than he thought.

The silence is strangely deafening. The glow of the lava is harsh and Friend’s wool is gaining a reddish hue from brushing against the netherack. Ghostbur takes out some blue dye and reapplies it to the sheep’s wool with a sigh. “I think we may be lost. I don’t know who we’re going to ask for help, though! There’s nobody around for chunks…”

A gruff voice and footsteps surprise the duo. A large shadow looms over them. “Ghostbur? What are you doing here? It’s dangerous in the Nether.”

The spector smiles as he turns around and zooms up to greet his brother’s seemingly bored face. “Technoblade! What luck that you found us! Me and Friend were trying to find the portal to L’Manburg so I can get some blue for Tommy!”

He hugs the piglin hybrid’s snout and floats a ways in front of him. Technoblade sighs and gives Ghostbur a gentle pat on the head, hand phasing through the tiny ghost slightly. He starts to walk in the direction Ghostbur and Friend were heading. “They don’t call me the human GPS for nothing. I’ll show you the way.”

The suffocating atmosphere of the hellish dimension eases up on Ghostbur as he and Friend trot after him. He gladly starts babbling away to his estranged brother. “Oh, thank you, Techno! I was getting worried we would never find our way out of here. See, we were heading this direction but I think we were going in circles! I don’t remember ever turning but you know my memory.”

Techno fixes him with a pitiful stare for a moment, pausing. There’s an aching feeling that tugs at Ghostbur’s soul as he’s trapped by it. Oh, he thinks, Techno must be sad too. I’ll make sure to find him later and give him some blue too!

Ghostbur continues cheerfully rambling on. “I ran into Philza earlier too! He was… well, I don’t quite remember but he helped Friend and I find the portal here! Sort of like you are too, come to think of it-”

“We’re here.” Technoblade interrupts with his signature monotone inflection, gesturing to a simple nether portal and turning back towards them. “Be careful out there. I don’t want you getting hurt.”

“Oh! Don’t worry, Technoblade!” The tiny ghost gives him an award-winning smile. “I’m already dead! I can’t get hurt.”

The piglin hybrid gives him a wistful smile and a pat on the head for both of them. He opens his mouth to say something but a loud cry from a ghast interrupts him. He whirls around with a shining netherite sword and bats the incoming fireball away. “Go! I’ll hold it off!”

The sudden appearance of a ghast startles the two fellows but Ghostbur hangs onto Friend as the sheep bolts towards the portal after a fireball explodes near them. He closes his eyes as they charge through the purple gateway.

Panic spikes through Ghostbur as he comes out the other side alone, facing blackstone walls. Oh dear, this isn’t where he meant to end up. These are the walls inside the prison where Dream is kept. He spins in a circle, looking around the room. “Friend? Where did you go?”

The portal shatters, the pieces dissolving into the air. Warden Sam walks up behind him, fixing him with a suspicious look. “I thought you said you were alone. Who’s this friend you’re talking about?”

The tiny spector jumps at the sudden appearance of the creeper hybrid, the red eyes burning holes into his transparent form. “Oh! Oh, uh! Nobody! I came alone and there’s no one with me!” He can’t place it, but something about the situation is making him very anxious. Confusion swims through his mind. He must be forgetting something. “I must have left Friend outside with Tommy…”

Feeling down about this, he reaches into his pockets to pull out some of his emergency blue, but his pockets are empty. “Ah? Where are my things? My book? My blue?”

“You put them in the chest,” Sam says. “You can have it back when you’re done visiting the prisoner.”

“Okay…”

Ghostbur doesn’t remember wanting to visit the prisoner. He just remembers looking for more blue to give to his family. And now he is stuck following this very spooky man down a very spooky staircase to a very spooky wall of lava with no blue to take away his fear and no Friend to keep him company. How had he ended up here?

Slowly, the lava parts, forming a walkway to the prison cell where a white, porcelain head smiles at him. Despite the heat, a chill goes up his spine. Ghostbur grips his sweater and looks back at Sam for reassurance but there’s no sign the hybrid had even been in the room. “Um- S-Sam? Are you hiding?”

Ghostbur wishes he could hide too. He’s not sure he’s going to find any blue over here. He turns around and gasps, suddenly much, much closer to Dream than before. The lava closes behind him as the monster stands. Ghostbur doesn’t remember crossing the sea of lava to get here but he must have because now there’s nothing separating him from this… friend? Tormentor? He doesn’t remember.

His chest is heaving with air he doesn’t need as Dream casually steps towards him, the mouth on his chest grinning impossibly wide. Dread forms in the pit of his stomach as a clawed hand reaches for him. He curls in on himself floating in the air, tears pricking at his eyes, terror thrumming through his heart.

He jerks awake with a yell and looks around for Friend. The cold, dark walls of the subway greets him and he curls up on himself, careful not to touch the wet floor. Shadowy figures who shift and shake if he looks at them crowd around the tubeline. He hiccups, tears welling in his eyes and burning their way down his cheeks.

“Oh, that’s right… I’m alone…”

He grips the blue stain in his sweater. His voice is impossibly quiet.

“I have no blue and I have no Friend…”

He starts crying, missing his family members, missing his sheep, missing the blue he would use to calm down. He sniffles.

“I’m sorry… I just wanted to make you all feel better…”

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mistressoffandoms · 3 years

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Steps to saving Michael

Step 1: Save Tubbo

Step 2: Give up on saving Tubbo and just have him die after putting items in an enderchest

Step 3: Save a bee and name it Scruffs

Step 4: Discuss the mortality of zombie pigmen while walking to the nether portal

Step 5: Get to Michael

Step 6: Realize we didn’t actually come up with a plan and are currently planning on just carving a path to boat him to a portal

Step 7: Remember that the main portal is still up a flight of stairs and tell Tubbo to get pistons

Step 8: Argue about whether we can let Michael out of the boat or not

Step 9: Build another portal below the main portal because BBH and Puffy’s life of trying to make the nether pretty wasn’t hard enough yet

Step 10: Pause to change music from dubstep to EDM

Step 11: Sacrifice enderchests for obsidian

Step 12: Build a portal, glitch yourself out of the boat through the floor into lava and then shift back to the platform

Step 13: Michael refuses to go through the portal

Step 14: Discover how glitched this is as a different full sized zombie pigman goes through while Michael stays stuck in the nether

Step 15: Get seeds and fear for Michael’s life because we lost the lead through the portal

Step 16: Look at chat which is screaming that chicken jockies can’t go through portals

Step 17: Argue with chat on whether chicken jockies can go through

Step 18: Consider asking Callahan to break the game so that we can have the exotic pet we want

Step 19: Tell Tubbo to stop singing and actually think

Step 20: Watch as Michael approaches the edge of the platform and nearly falls off several times

Step 21: Try glitching Michael through the portal by moving him into place then lighting the portal

Step 22: Take the attacks of a ghost while trying to keep Michael alive

Step 23: Get nametags to name Michael and his chicken in hopes that he’ll go through that way

Step 24: Minecarts????

Step 25: Tell chat to stop asking to call other people, then ask BBH if he could help

Step 26: Get help from Bad and Foolish both of which are now invested in the Michael rescue mission

Step 27: Roll Michael in a minecart off the platform into the lava lake below the portal

Step 28: Find Michael in the lava because he managed not to die to the lava lake somehow (RIP Michael’s Chicken though)

Step 29: Send Bad for potions and try to get to Michael to lead him back up from a the bottom of the lava lake

Step 30: Be judged for not using the god apple because it has taken so long to get it

Step 31: Obtain potions from Bad

Step 32: Drop Michael into a lava pocket below the lava lake

Step 33: Officially name Michael

Step 34: Find a netherite mine but realize that Michael can’t be led

Step 35: Almost suffocate Michael with a boat

Step 36: Boat desync while trying to get Michael into the boat again

Step 37: Look up the potion needed to heal Michael

Step 38: Nether portal time again (bigger than last time)

Step 39: End up in the default scuffed nether portal location behind Eret’s Castle

Step 40: Have Bad get insta damage pots while Foolish acts as a meteorologist because he’s staring at a wall for 10 hours and has been tracking the weather cycle on the server

Step 41: Question if zombie pigmen actually are affected by rain or water

Step 42: Obtain rescue music from Tubbo

Step 43: Heal Michael and prepare to send him through the portal

Step 44: Send Michael through the portal only for him to start running before a boat is made

Step 45: Realize once again that mountains are a legitimate difficulty that must be overcome

Step 46: Find Tubbo’s old Villager transport path to follow

Step 47: o7 at the spot where Tubbo’s villager died

Step 48: Once again question why we are taking Michael to Snowchester which requires making tunnels through like 4 very large hills

Step 49: Pass by Foolish’s stream of staring at a wall for 10 hours

Step 50: Annoy Bad by forcing him to clear away blood vines to save Michael

Step 51: Reason 3 of why it is worthy to invest in netherite shovels

Step 52: Request light because chat wants to be able to see

Step 53: Get out of the boat on accident and get told off for it

Step 54: Take off in a different tunnel with Michael terrifying the rescue party

Step 55: Convince Tubbo not to ruin the property of everyone directly next to the Prime Path and instead dig the tunnel slightly lower for a moment

Step 56: Haste beacon pog

Step 57: Comment on how intense the rescue mission is

Step 58: Comment on the underground highway that is now under like half of the prime path

Step 59: Allow the music to change to CORE allowing for better vibing

Step 60: Notify Sam about the tunnel’s proximity to the prison

Step 61: Have the memory book and Ranboo’s canon lives threatened by Sam

Step 62: Come out of the tunnel only to encounter the difficulty known as the sea

Step 63: Realize pistons are needed

Step 64: Realize that the only one with pistons is Foolish and that the pistons are in his summer house

Step 65: “Hey Ranboo, do you like Instant Damage?” x 5

Step 66: Lag difficulties from local sea life

Step 67: Beg for Tubbo to use a lever instead of a pressure plate to make the piston work

Step 68: Piston staircase with difficulties resulting from only having 1 piston and a very stubborn Tubbo

Step 69: Get rid of the Zombie on top of Tubbo’s super speed tunnel before finishing getting the boat up

Step 70: Boat slowly across the tunnel while Bad jumps in circles around with the trident

Step 71: Destroy the property value of Snowchester with yet another tunnel on top of the first tunnel

Step 72: Realize the tunnel would go through the nuclear weapons factory and that a new path is needed

Step 73: Reverse in boats on land is the slowest thing in the world

Step 74: Enter Tubbo’s house though the back wall

Step 75: Question the concept of easily with regards to this mission

Step 76: Cage Michael

Step 77: Release Michael from the boat

Step 78: Primes for Michael

Step 79: Begin a search for a chicken for Michael

Step 80: Discover that Foolish has discovered the enjoyment that is having someone spin the clock on the wall

Step 81: Question if Foolish’s chat is ok given their attachment to the brick wall

Step 82: Leave Foolish to his wall and the danger it was put in by a creeper

Step 83: Have Tubbo find a lore piece of mail and realize he has to open it on stream

Step 84: Plan a rescue mission for Friend who is still stuck in Dream’s evil lair of PTSD and manipulation

Step 85: Obtain a chicken for Michael who has joined him in wanting to escape Tubbo’s house

Step 86: Be attacked by mods while heading to save Scruffs

Step 87: Have chat get botted while Ranboo gets lost looking for Scruffs

Step 88: Obtain the bee

Step 89: Question why the NY Post sent Tubbo an article about slug repellent

Step 90: Lose Scruffs from hopping too fast

Step 91: Question Tubbo’s sanity and personal goals

Step 92: Tether Scruffs to a fence

Step 93: Name Michael’s chicken

Step 94: Twitch Prime

Optional Step 95: Mess with Foolish after having completed the rescue mission

#dream smp #liveblogging #long post

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