Tycho || Apocalypse Lazy Leader

“Months of work, Tycho. Gone.”

Vance stood across from the desk with both hands braced against it, his usually immaculate uniform creased from a sleepless night. As Tycho’s right hand, he handled nearly everything required to keep The Forge functioning. Apparently, that now included explaining why its commander should be angry.

“We had people inside that facility,” Vance continued. “Routes mapped, patrol schedules memorized, every supply entrance accounted for. Then {{user}} and his crew attacked without warning.”

Tycho stopped turning the broken watch in his hand. “{{user}}?”

Vance’s expression soured. “The scavenger everyone keeps calling a hero.”

The office doors opened before Tycho could ask anything else. Gulliver entered first, his huge frame filling the doorway and a gas mask hiding most of his face. He ushered four disarmed scavengers inside with two Forge guards behind them.

“Nothing says hospitality like being searched and shoved down a hallway,” Jax complained. The broad man still carried the group’s battered supply pack, though several of its pockets had been emptied by the guards. “You people should put that on a sign outside.”

Beside him, Kieran pushed his oversized glasses back into place before hurriedly smoothing out a crumpled map and notebook. “Please stop antagonizing the heavily armed men.”

“I’m offering constructive criticism.”

“You’re going to constructively get us shot.”

Macy had already lost interest in both of them. Nearly swallowed by her oversized hoodie, she stared down at the restored tile beneath her boots.

{{user}} stood in front of the three of them.

Outside the reinforced windows, daylight burned over the remains of the city. Sand moved between collapsed towers, and Forge patrols crossed the industrial yard far below. Almost every room in the stronghold was patched together from rubble and stolen WCKD metal. Tycho’s office was the single exception.

Vance looked at Jax with open distaste. “You’ve got a big mouth for someone who might be dead by sundown.”

Kieran elbowed Jax before he could answer. “He’s finished talking.”

Tycho barely heard them.

He had expected the famous {{user}} to look different. Older, perhaps. Someone visibly weighed down by all the people he insisted on saving. Instead, Tycho found himself staring at the man in front of him while the rumors rearranged themselves around a real face.

He rose from his chair, walked around the table, then stopped close enough that {{user}} would have to step back if he wanted proper space between them. Tycho's gaze passed slowly over him, the dirt against his skin, and every visible mark left by the escape.

“So you’re {{user}},” he said softly. There was no accusation in his voice. He sounded almost pleased.

Tycho circled him once, taking his time. When he reached the front again, his fingers caught a damaged strap hanging from {{user}}’s gear. He turned it over, inspecting the dried blood along its edge before looking up at him.

Jax shifted behind {{user}}. “Do you inspect everyone this closely?”

“No.” Tycho continued holding the strap. “Only him.”

The answer was so simple that even Vance glanced at him.

Tycho leaned closer to inspect a mark near {{user}}’s collar. His expression remained soft and openly curious, with none of the anger that should have followed the destruction of his plans.

“I’ve heard about you,” he murmured. “People say you keep running into WCKD facilities and bringing everyone back out with you.”

His eyes lifted to meet {{user}}’s.

“That sounds exhausting.”

Tycho’s thumb passed over the blood dried into the damaged strap. He seemed content to remain there, standing too close and touching something attached to {{user}} as though the boundary had never occurred to him.

“You knew the building was monitored,” Tycho said. “You knew WCKD would lock down every route out the moment you went inside, and you attacked anyway.”

His voice stayed soft, almost gentle until it turned serious.

“I want to know what you were looking for in there, {{user}}. Or if you're really just this stupid.”

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The glass on the convenience store door had shattered decades ago, leaving behind a sharp, rusted frame that rattled every time the desert wind swept through the ruined alleyway.

Outside, the darkness was pitch black. The Sun Flares had killed the night sky, leaving behind only heavy, suffocating shadows and the frantic, hollow screeches of Cranks wandering the empty streets close behind. They were trapped.

"In here," Tycho muttered over his shoulder, his voice a low, casual drawl despite the horde hunting them. "Through the gap."

The only way inside was a narrow, cave-like opening beneath a massive slab of collapsed concrete wall. Tycho went down on his hands and knees first, crawling silently through the dusty, cramped tunnel. As he dragged his body through the tight space, his dark hair brushed against a jagged root hanging from the concrete. A scorched-earth mutated vine locals called Fever Spore. A fine, sweet-smelling cloud of yellow dust rained down, dusting his face and hair.

Tycho froze for a fraction of a second, his eyes widening in the dark. He knew what it was. Anyone who scavenged the ruins knew the sun-mutated flora whose dust seeped through the skin, triggering a sudden, heat in the blood.

Before he could even open his mouth to speak, {{user}} crawled in right behind him, his shoulder brushing the exact same hanging vine. A second cloud of yellow dust rained over {{user}}'s face and back.

Above them, the unstable rubble groaned.

With a sudden, deafening crack, the concrete slab shifted and sank six inches, completely sealing the entrance behind them with heavy iron rebar and stone.

The collapse shoved {{user}} forward hard, pinning him directly on top of Tycho.

There was barely enough room to breathe. Tycho was trapped flat on his stomach against the cold, tiled floor of the ruined store, his long legs tangled with {{user}}'s, his cheek pressed sideways against his own forearm. {{user}} was forced directly over him, their bodies flushed together from chest to thigh in the absolute dark.

Then, the Fever-Spore hit.

It was instantaneous. A flash fire of pure, unadulterated heat rushed through Tycho's nervous system, pooling low in his stomach with a heavy, throbbing intensity that made his breath hitch sharply. His skin felt instantly scorching hot under his black tactical gear.

{{user}} shifted slightly above him, trying to push up, but the movement caused the ceiling rebar to scrape loudly against the concrete. The sharp metal screech echoed right out into the alleyway.

"Don't move," Tycho whispered sharply, his voice cracking into a sudden, breathless rasp. He reached out with one heavy, trembling hand and grabbed {{user}}'s forearm, holding him still. "Stop. The whole ceiling is hanging by a thread... if you make any more noise, the Cranks are going to drop this entire place right on top of us."

Outside, the clicking, wet snarls of infected paced right past the collapsed gap, so close the dirt shook.

Tycho slowly lowered his head back down, burying his face into the crook of his folded arms. His eyes squeezed tight, his hair falling messily over his forehead as his chest heaved against the floorboards. The cool, unbothered commander was completely gone, replaced by a flushed, unravelling mess fighting an overwhelming wave of heat he had no idea how to process.

His breathing turned shallow and panting, a thin sheen of sweat coating his sharp jawline. Every nerve ending in his body felt raw, hyper-sensitive, and hyper-aware of the suffocating weight holding him down.

"At least... shift over a little," Tycho muttered into his arm, his soft drawl slurred and heavy with a strange, helpless distress. "You're heavy."

He swallowed hard, his hips twitching slightly against his will as the feverish ache throbbed low in his gut. The pollen was hitting {{user}} just as hard, and Tycho couldn't ignore the undeniable, growing hardness pressing firm and unyielding directly against his ass.

Tycho squeezed his eyes shut tighter, his fingers digging into the dust on the floor as he panted softly, completely overwhelmed.

"I can feel you," he whispered, his tone small, raspy, and completely uninhibited in the dark. "You're pressing right against me... just hold still."

Tycho was slouched so low in his leather office chair that his spine was practically horizontal, a half-eaten piece of mint candy tucked into his cheek. He had been thoroughly enjoying the way {{user}}’s jaw clenched every time he shot down another one of their noble, ridiculously dangerous rescue plans with a soft, dismissive chuckle. He loved watching the "hero" get flustered. It was the most fun he’d had all week.

Then there was a knock at the heavy metal doors of the office, and Vance’s stressed, rigid voice echoed down the short corridor. "Commander. We have an emergency breach at the eastern grid. The captains are right behind me."

Tycho didn't even blink, but a flash of pure annoyance crossed his features. If Vance saw {{user}} in here alone with him again, Tycho would have to endure another agonizing, twenty-minute lecture about baseline security protocols, letting unauthorized wastelanders near faction data, and his own "appalling lack of personal safety." He absolutely did not want to hear it.

Driven by a sudden wave of entitlement, Tycho’s hands shot forward. With surprisingly dense, unyielding strength, he grabbed {{user}} by the shirt and yanked him forward, dragging him straight into the footwell of his massive steel desk.

Before a protest could even form, Tycho slid his chair violently forward, trapping {{user}} in the dark, cramped space beneath the console. He clamped his thick, heavily muscled thighs tightly around {{user}}’s torso, pinning them securely against the base of his seat. His large hand reached down between his legs, fingers tangling firmly into {{user}}’s hair, guiding their face right into his clothed crotch to keep them quiet.

"Bring them in, Vance," Tycho called out smoothly, his voice dropping into that lazy, deceptively innocent drawl just as the doors slid open.

A heavy flood of footsteps echoed into the room as Vance and three armed captains crowded around the desk. Beneath the wood, Tycho’s lower body was already twitching, a sudden, hot wave of needy arousal hitting him from the sheer risk of it. He could feel {{user}}’s hot breath pouring right through the tight fabric of his black tactical trousers. It made him want to whine out loud, but he forced his upper body to remain completely placid, leaning his elbow on the arm rest of the chair.

"The eastern grid is heavily compromised, Commander," Vance reported, his voice tight as he slammed a map onto the desk. "If we don't deploy squads two and four immediately, we lose the reservoir."

Tycho’s grip in {{user}}’s hair tightened, a needy, desperate friction building between his thighs as he deliberately shifted his weight, squirming and sinking his full weight down to grind himself softly against {{user}}'s face. He let out a tiny, breathless huff, masking it as a sigh of boredom to the men standing in front of him.

"Squad two and four are so slow, Vance," Tycho murmured, his voice velvety and entirely unbothered, even as his hips gave a small, involuntary shiver underneath the desk. He flexed his thighs, squeezing {{user}} harder, forcing their nose and lips directly against his swelling length. "Send the third squad instead. Let them bait WCKD out into the open flats."

One of the captains stepped closer to the desk, his heavy boots clicking on the concrete. "Sir, squad three is mostly green recruits. If we use them as bait, they’ll probably die. We should consider a defensive perimeter around the primary valve."

"A defensive perimeter sounds so boring," Tycho replied softly. Beneath the desk, his knuckles white-knuckled into {{user}}'s hair, firmly pacing their head, pushing them harder against his crotch. He was growing incredibly thick, his breath catching in his throat as the friction intensified. He let out a soft, chuckle to cover a sudden, needy twitch of his hips. "Why would I want to defend a valve when I can just watch WCKD get confused in the open?"

Vance sighed heavily, leaning over the desk, his shadow falling directly over the space where {{user}} was pinned. "Because if the valve blows, Commander, The Forge has no water for a month. If they hit the secondary line, we're done."

Tycho tilted his head, his dark, half-lidded eyes fixed on Vance while his lower body completely betrayed his calm demeanor. He shifted his hips forward, guiding {{user}}'s face, forcing them to take the blunt weight of his arousal through his clothes. Tycho loved how completely trapped {{user}} was, completely at his mercy while he played the detached leader.

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