"...Dream? Dream, what are you--I thought we were friends?"

Tubbo opens his ender chest, takes out the disc, and hands it to Dream.

"Thank you." And Dream laughs. "You're--you're an idiot, Tubbo."

"...What?"

"This disc-- you just gave me the one thing on this server that Tommy cares about. The only reason, the only reason I've been humoring you is because you had that disc. I had to act like I was friends with you to get the stupid disc back."

"Dream, you-- I thought you were my friend."

"I am, Tommy! I am your friend. I visited you every day."

"Yeah, but not-- you weren't visiting because you were my friend, were you? You were visiting because, because you wanted to control me. I--this is like what I did with Spirit, right? You want the disc because then you can tell me what to do. It's leverage. That's why you wanted to exile me. That's why you took all my armor. That's why you want the discs. You know what, Dream? I think... I don't think you're my friend at all. I think you're scared of me."

Before Dream has a chance to react, Tubbo's between him and Tommy, axe out.

Dream doesn't try to attack, though, just laughs again. "I'll see you once I'm ready to destroy L'Manberg."

"You have got what you wanted, Dream. That won't be necessary."

"No. But it'll be fun."

...of course he thinks war is fun.

"If you ever want to visit your friend, Tommy, just call me." And he leaves.

Tommy is back. He can't relax completely, a war is about to start-- but Tommy is out.

Yeah. Tommy is back.

"So, uh. That... happened. It looks like the fighting won't start right away, at least?"

"That happened. But we have time to prepare. That's worth a lot." Tommy being back is also worth a lot.

Nod. "That's good, then. Let's head back. --You good to come back, Tommy?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I just-- ...I was really starting to believe him.

Let's go home."

"We can't delay preparing too long, but-- rest is necessary."

Then they can head back to L'Manberg.

Technically they have succeeded. Ideally they would have got Tommy back without starting a war-- but they achieved what they needed to. "Tubbo, do you have an estimate n how long it would take Dream to prepare?"

"I'm gonna be honest, that depends a lot on how much preparing he's already done. We'll probably have a day's notice but I don't know if we'll have more than that."

He nods. "That's a fine margin, but if it is what we have to work with, we will work with it. But-- tomorrow."