"Dreeeeam. Dream. DREAM!"

Dream's eyes shot open. He looked up into Techno's face. "You were kissing my hand in your sleep", he chuckled.

Dream blushed and smiled, sitting up and running his hands through Techno's hair. Techno smiled and snuggled into Dream's chest, letting him toy with his hair.

Soon the pinkette was asleep, chest rising and falling slowly. Dream smiled and kissed the top of Techno's head, stroking his cheek.

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Sam let up the lava. Techno looked over at him questioningly. Sam did the little finger gesture, motioning for him to come over.

"What?", he asked when he was over by Sam, out of Dream's earshot so he wouldn't wake up.

"Phil wants to make a deal to get you and Dream out", he said quietly, glancing at Dream before snapping his attention back to Techno.

"Give me the details", Techno demanded.

"Ok, so we have a super difficult training course for all of our officers. They have to complete it in under an hour to become qualified for becoming an officer. Phil knows about it and he made a deal with me. If you both can complete it in under 30 minutes we'll let you go free. If not, you'll stay in here, forever. And you'll also be in separate cells", Sam explained, taking a long breath afterwards.

Techno looked thoughtful, thinking it over. Finally he decided. "I- we'll do it."

Sam smiled. "Good luck", he said, chaining Techno up. Techno started to squirm and struggle against them. "We're doing it now", Sam said. "Go get Dream."

Techno stopped struggling and called out to Dream, which woke him up. He gave him a quick summary of what was happening and Dream came over to get chained.

Sam led them out and over to the prison's entrance, taking them to the field where the course was. It was about a mile long, and it expanded into the ocean.

The SBI family was waiting there, along with a few other officers and guards.

Tommy and Tubbo got excited at seeing the two and Tommy had to hold Tubbo back from running over to them.

Sam stopped right in front of it. He unchained Techno so he could go first. One of the guards had a timer in his hands set for 30 minutes.

Techno took a deep breath and sighed. He was nervous, very nervous, but he had to do it. Not for him, but for Dream.

The guard set the timer and Techno took off. He did the parkour, and everything else (I'm too lazy to write a description of the thingy and stuff so yeah) and he finished in 20 minutes and 17 seconds.

He got back to the course and everyone seemed happy with his time. But now it was Dream's turn. The guard reset the timer and started it. Dream went.

He was gone for about 8 minutes when there was a scream from somewhere inside the course. Techno got worried and shouted, "Dream!", and then raced into the course.

Techno found Dream trapped, his foot was stuck in a hole and he couldn't get it out. Techno got his leg unstuck and picked him up, carrying him back to the start. He sat him down on the grass and inspected his leg.

It was mangled a bit, and it was bleeding and his ankle was twisted. Every time it got moved or it was touched Dream screamed in pain.

Sam called some medics to fix it up. Once a bandage was on Dream's leg Techno picked him up. He walked over to Sam with his head hanging low.

Sam looked at him with an almost wistful look as he chained him up again. Phil saw what was happening and stared at them sadly. Tommy's eyes started to water and he ran towards them.

Wilbur and Tubbo held him back as hot tears ran down Tommy's cheeks, struggling to get over to Techno.

"Please- don't! I need my brother! I can't have him leave again! I need him back!-", he started screaming before crumpling onto the grassy floor.

Tubbo hugged Tommy and tried to comfort him but Tommy wouldn't look up, suffering in his own pit of sadness.

Phil put a hand on Tommy's shoulder, and Tommy finally looked up. Techno, Dream, Sam, and the guards were gone. The sun was starting to set.

"Come on Tommy..", Phil said quietly.

Tommy nodded slowly and stood up, Tubbo supporting most of his weight and helping him to walk.

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