"Whaaaaat? Me? Trouble? Never. I will be the least troublesome person you have ever seen. You will come back and there will be less trouble, three of your troubles will be solved, for free, I know, don't thank me too much, that's how against causing trouble I am. I will put up a sign, NO TROUBLE ALLOWED."

"Thank you, Tommy." Then he can follow Q, or lead Q if he doesn't seem to know where he's going, whichever.

It will be okay, he thinks in Tommy's general direction. That isn't a platitude, it's a promise. 

He's pretty sure he knows where he's going— Wilbur wanted to do this under the casino, right? Into the casino, which is sort of hard to miss. 

Into the casino! Wilbur was originally planning on putting it just below the casino, so if Quackity visited he wouldn't notice, but the casino's insides are covered with posters; he can hide TNT behind those, instead. One every three blocks, so that they chain properly.

One every three blocks. Okay. He can do that. He can remember that. (The inside of the casino is really cool actually, holy shit, it is never going to stop being wild that one person did all of this building—) 

He'll pretty much follow Wilbur's lead on where to place these. "So did you have thoughts on where the button would be? We'd want it to be somewhere pretty out of the way, but where we could still get in an emergency, if it's a backup plan." 

"Underground. And then we can have an underground tunnel at Paradise connecting it up."

"Cool cool." He's not, uh, great at this, and his tools are kind of shit, but a tunnel underground is a thing that can happen; presumably they're still placing TNT every three blocks. 

"We should probably stop now, we don't want to blow up Paradise. I'll connect it up the rest of the way with redstone."

"Right. I'll stand back while you do that?" 

(If he removes.... hm, not every third block of TNT, he doesn't want the pattern to be that obvious, but something close to that, then that should break the chain well before it destroys anything that anyone cares about even if some of the explosions reach further than they expected. And he can break the redstone, probably, and tomorrow he can tell Fundy where all of the TNT is and ask him to please not let on that Q is the one who told him. Knock on wood three finger salute and may the odds etc etc.) 

"Sounds good." Redstone redstone redstone button. And then they can dig up and come up... Not quite in Paradise, but close enough, and Wilbur can chop down the nearest tree and use it for ladders.

Cool cool. That went... not terribly. Wilbur watched him help place it, and knows he did what he said he would, and it's not like it's implausible that someone would happen to find it; "behind posters" is not a very secure hiding place. That might actually have gone as well as it possibly could have. 

Back to Paradise? 

Back to Paradise!

He smiles at Tommy, which is part a vague attempt to be reassuring and part an attempt to gauge the mood before he says anything. 

Tommy smiles back! He stands up, dusting snow and sand off his knees and butt from where he had been playing with it. "Wilburrrrr can I interest you in it being your turn to make concrete. I spent the whole time when you were gone working on it and now I deserve a break."

"You literally did not."

"I spent some of the time you were gone working on it, and also I am me."

"That's honestly better than I expected. Give it here."

"Hey! I resent that. Did you see how much stone I got you, it was a fucking lot, let me tell you." He does hand over the concrete powder, though. After a moment he hands over a bucket of water, too. "It's a pity bucket."

He digs a hole in the ground for the water and starts placing concrete powder next to it and mining it back up as concrete. "You're right, of course. My deepest apologies to the one, the only, TommyInnit."

"Fuckin' right, bitch."

"You guys are cute." He does not intend to help make concrete even a little bit but he can watch as they do whatever it is that they're doing. 

Tommy isn't making it either, he's placing down some of the finished black concrete into a pathway. "What?! Me? Cute? I'm taller than you, you know. Also I had a really long poo this morning, wasn't even very satisfying. You must have me confused with some other man. Wilbur, maybe."

"Face it, Tommy, the people think you're cute even if you overshare about your bathroom experiences."

The best way to respond to Tommy Innit oversharing about his bathroom experiences is to simply not respond to it. He lives near the kid and has learned these things. "I said what I said."

Pause. This is nice; he isn't sure he wants to ruin it. But he knows the face Tommy made when Wilbur mentioned the TNT, and—

"It'll be okay," he says, before he has a chance to second-guess himself. It doesn't sound nearly so much like he's joking. 

"Course it will. I'm here, aren't I?"