hibernation

...and the one time he actually was. Or: sometimes, faking sleep can work to your advantage. When it comes to trying to fool a certain genius, overprotective, superhero mentor, Peter finds this to be doubly true.

Philza had not planned a long trip to the nether. He planned to get blaze rods, a normal trip. It would take a day, maximum. He had a town to get back to. He hadn’t planned on becoming a prisoner, and he especially hadn’t planned on becoming much, much more than that. Maybe he was missing out on a lot. Maybe the gods had other plans. Techno is the King of the Nether, or at least that’s what he proclaimed himself. If he was never to see the overworld again, he was going to spend his days gaining the most territory of anyone. He’s a force to be reckoned with… Until one avian hybrid flips his entire view on life. Could he really learn to enjoy it again? Would dark magic take that all away, or become an ally?

Tommy wasn’t sure what he had been anticipating when he broke into Techno’s house. Maybe he was expecting his brother to kill him on sight, lodging a crossbow arrow straight between his eyes. Maybe he was expecting to be dragged back to exile, cursing and screaming the whole way. Mostly, he was just hoping that Techno wouldn't be home. Tommy had a half-baked plan to hide out in the piglin’s basement, squirreling away gapples and supplies until he could figure out something better. He hadn’t even considered that Techno could be hibernating. Or: Tommy has just escaped exile. What better place to hide than the house of his hibernating older brother?

Technoblade rarely travels in the Nether anymore. He'd come down here this time to gather a few materials he can't get in the Overworld, and then he was going to leave the place where he was born but not raised. And then he’d heard the snuffling. It’s a quiet thing, sniffling mixed with high-pitched whines, and, oh, there go his instincts. Recognizing the sound even though he’s never heard it before- though he definitely made it in his youth. There’s a piglet nearby, and they’re terrified. He casts one final, forlorn glance at the gold he’d seen higher up, and then he turns to follow the sound. ---- Or, a piglin hyrbid!tommy au where sbi is a happy little family bc i felt like being soft this time

It is then, as his eyes travel to follow Michelangelo, that Leo spots the way the water is dripping thicker now, seeping through the concrete of the ceiling. There are signs he has carelessly neglected – the cracking on the stone, the groaning of pipes around them. His cheerful mood snaps.Something must reflect this in his expression; Mikey pauses, a few feet ahead of him, face twisting to concern.“Leo –“ he begins, but is interrupted when everything shudders. Rubble drizzles, then throws itself upon them as the roof collapses under the strain of the water pipes.For a moment, Leonardo’s eyes meet his youngest brother’s and see the terror flash inside them. He barely has time to take another breath before the world caves in, and everything goes black. ~ While the brothers are out exploring a new sewer system, the whole thing collapses. With no way to get out and separated from each other, they all face their own struggles, injuries and fears as they fight to survive and find each other. TLDR: a sewer caves in. Leonardo and his brothers are trapped because I like angst.