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March 12th, 2021
Tommy is hoarding potatoes from Dream, bickering all the while. Dream punches Tommy, and Tommy shrinks away, claiming that he's having flashbacks.
Despite everything, Tommy still refuses to believe that he died. There's simply no way. It was just a nightmare brought on by being in such close quarters with Dream. Through all this, Tommy spots Sam's nametag through the lava and thinks that he's hallucinating that, too. But it's actually Sam!
Tommy quickly shouts out to him, and Sam, in disbelief, teleports Tommy to the last checkpoint before he entered Dream's cell. Tommy can't believe it. He's out! But most importantly, he's angry with Sam that Sam let him die. Tommy hits Sam, but Sam's armor has thorns on it, and Tommy gets hurt back. He winces away from the damage and losing health.
Sam is still just trying to process how Tommy is alive in front of him. Tommy doesn't want to elaborate and instead tries to get Sam to lower the lava so he can see Dream. Sam refuses, trying to usher Tommy out of the prison. Before Tommy's too far away, he shouts at Dream through the lava that he will kill Dream and take his last life.
As they leave the prison, Tommy gets nervous around the lava security measures and threatens to sue Sam for being a terrible warden. Sam ignores his hatred, still in disbelief that Tommy's alive. After all, the entire server mourned for him and built him memorials.
Tommy tells Sam that Dream is planning on breaking out of the prison, and that he doesn't trust Sam anymore to stop Dream from doing it. However, Sam still assures Tommy that the prison's security is top notch and there'd be no way that Dream could escape. Tommy still doesn't believe him and tells him that all visitors should be banned, especially when Dream is using the revival book.
Sam apologizes, finally understanding how Tommy is alive again. Tommy doesn't accept it.
Sam draws his sword, and Tommy freaks out, begging Sam to put it away. Tommy quickly grabs his things from his locker and heads out of the prison.
Tommy walks down the Prime Path, occasionally taking damage and getting nervous, wanting to stay on full hearts. He finds Tubbo working on the Bee'N'Boo Inn. Tubbo's shocked to see him there, and chalks it up to his imagination. He's still in denial about Tommy's existance until Tommy mentions the Revival Book. Now Tubbo understands. Tommy explains that they have to kill Dream and Technoblade, if only to stop him from helping Dream escape. Dream cannot leave, period.
He finds Jack at the Big Innit Hotel. Tommy's shocked to find that Jack had rebranded the hotel. Jack is shocked to find Tommy alive. They start to argue over the hotel. Jack is being selfish for taking the hotel for himself while never mourning nor caring for Tommy in the first place. Jack defends himself by saying that he did mourn, despite trying to kill Tommy in the past. Tommy tries to tell Jack that he's changed, but Jack only wants them gone. He threatens them with an axe, saying it's his hotel now. Tommy leaves while Jack watches from the top floor, arrow notched in his bow.
Tommy heads home, walking down the Prime Path to find all the memorials that people left outside his house while Connor kept Tommy's house warm for him. Tommy kicks him out again.
He finds Ranboo and Tubbo on the Prime Path. Ranboo is surprised to find Tommy alive. Tommy assures Ranboo that he died, but he doesn't want to talk about it. He also asks if Ranboo is Tubbo's new best friend. When Ranboo says yes, Tommy gets upset and tells him to stop talking. Ranboo hands Tommy an allium which Tommy immediately burns.
Tommy continues walking to Puffy's therapist office. He leaves her a note asking for help. In the distance, he can see Ant, but Ant runs away before he can talk to him.
He finds Quackity hanging out at the community house. At first, Quackity thinks it's a prank someone's pulling, dressing like the deceased. But Tommy convinces Quackity that he's actually there and alive, that Dream used the Revival Book on him. Tommy asks him what he missed, and Quackity briefly fills Tommy in on his plans to get rich. He then leaves without giving away too many details.
As Tommy looks around at all the memorials, at how everyone reacted to seeing him, he realizes that his death was celebrated. Why else would people look so haunted and guilty when they see him alive again?
He still feels dead. People are only interested in him to learn about the Revival Book, what it was like being dead, and the process to come back, not about him or his feelings. To top it all off, Tubbo now has a new best friend, Ranboo.
He was only in the prison for a little bit. How did the world change so much?
Little Hero - Kanaya
After their fight, Jack realizes that despite what he thought earlier, Tommy never cared for him. Never had, and never will. He heads over to Niki's underground city to vent.
While there, he explains that Tommy's alive once again, and that despite initially mourning Tommy's death, he's still mad at him. Once Jack calms down a bit, Niki admits that she doesn't want Tommy dead anymore. It wasn't his fault that Wilbur exploded L'manberg, and that all their friends abandoned them.
Jack, still shouting, says that Tommy threw away an entire nation for his discs. That's an incredibly selfish move! Niki only says that they don't need nations.
Jack looks around at the underground city. He asks if it counts as a nation. To Niki, it doesn't. It's just a safe place for everyone on the server. No governments. No alliances. She built this city, but she's not in charge.
Jack makes the point that if there's no government, anyone can do anything. He starts killing Niki's chickens. Niki doesn't do anything to stop him, only watches silently. Once Jack stops to catch his breath, he realizes how quiet Niki's being. Niki only says that she started baking again.
Jack stops killing the chickens, still angry but realizing that he's not going to find what he's looking for at Niki's. Niki still tells him that he's always welcome in her city and that she forgives him.
Jack comes to the conclusion that Niki turned on him. He lost Tommy as a friend a long time ago, and now Niki. He finds Quackity at Tommy's second house. Quackity brings up the deal that they were making earlier, between the hotel and Las Nevadas, but now Tommy is one of his business partners. Jack doesn't want that to mix with his and Quackity's deal regarding Jack's hotel. Quackity doubts that Tommy left Jack in charge of the hotel but asks him to keep things under control.
Jack begins to concoct another plan to kill Tommy. He's going to become a prison guard to stop Dream from reviving Tommy ever again. And if Tommy tries to visit Dream again, Jack'll kill him then.
After Ranboo watches Tommy head off again down the Prime Path, he starts to question whether or not Sam lied about Tommy's death in the first place. But either way, it's a good thing that Tommy is alive. From they're perspective, Tubbo isn't handling Tommy's death well at all, but they have faith that Tubbo will work through it. Tommy is Tubbo's best friend, after all.
He goes off, lost in thought about the meaning behind death permanence and how that would change a person's behavior. They mine a comfort grass block to hold.
Eventually, Ranboo finds the nether portal leading to Dream's vault from the Season 2 finale and enters it. He doesn't remember ever visiting, but he can recite quotes from that day. He places his grass block in the vault.
They realize that they must have been in their Enderwalk phase while it was all going down. It's getting worse, happening more often. Ranboo's waking up in different places with his tools a little more wear for tear, especially his silk touch pickaxes. He concludes that the Revival Book is real, and that Dream must die. Otherwise, the server's villains have a chance at coming back to the land of the living. And that would be horrifying.
Puffy finds Tommy's note, surprised to see him alive. But she leaves a note in Tommy's house agreeing to a therapy session.
After getting readjusted to the world, Tommy heads over to Snowchester to find Foolish working on the mansion for Ranboo and Tubbo. Tubbo explains what it's for: to live in and for industrial farms once they're legal. He offers a room to Tommy.
Tommy pulls Ranboo aside and accuses them of stealing Tubbo from him. Ranboo doesn't say anything, and Tubbo rejoins the conversation.
Tommy reveals that he's hatched a plan to take down Dream. He's going to stake outside the prison until Techno shows up to help Dream with his favor. Then, he's going to kill Dream. Ranboo's on board, but Tubbo's not too sure. Tommy suggests building a tower outside the prison to watch and wait to find the hole made from the TNT that locked Tommy in the prison in the first place. If Sam couldn't find and fix the security breach, it's likely that the hole is still there. As the trio head out to look for resources for the tower, Tommy makes a comment that Tubbo had been treating him differently since he died.
They run into Ghostbur, and Tommy asks him if they should revive Wilbur. Ghostbur asks how they'll do it, but no one gives him the answer. They talk about the difference between Wilbur in the afterlife and what he was like before death. Ghostbur asks Tommy why he doesn't want Wilbur revived. Tommy's answer is that Wilbur spent time around bad people which made him bad.
As Tommy and Tubbo work on the tower, Ranboo joins Ghostbur under a rocky ledge to get protection from the rain, continuing the conversation from before. Ghostbur says that they should revive Mexican Dream before killing Dream. But, if they were to revive Wilbur, Ghostbur is scared of disappearing for good. Ranboo's unsure of whether Wilbur was a good person or not. All the memoirs they've read don't make it very clear, and Tubbo isn't much use because he refuses to elaborate on most events from before Ranboo met him.
Tommy finishes the tower and starts to collect supplies for his stakeout.
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