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The Disc Confrontation, also known as the Disc War Finale, was a major conflict taking place on on January 20, 2021 in which TommyInnit and Tubbo confronted Dream for Tommy's discs. The entire event was staged by Dream and Punz to make it seem as if Punz had betrayed Dream by making him get locked up in Pandora's Vault.
The conflict marked the end of the Disunion Era, leading into the Imprisonment Era. It also ended the long conflict of the Disc Saga.
History
After Dream had received the Revival Book from Schlatt, he and Punz started experimenting with it. They wanted to use the book to live forever, which meant that they could not die at the same time because they had to be able to revive each other.[1]
Once the server started turning against Dream, he became worried that he and Punz might both die in a fight against everyone. Dream and Punz planned to stage a betrayal, where Punz would become responsible for Dream getting locked up in Pandora's Vault. That way, nobody would ever suspect that they had to kill both Dream and Punz in order to kill one of them.[2]
On January 16, 2021, Tommy found a message from Dream at his house. It said that Tommy and Tubbo should come visit Dream alone on January 20 or else the discs would be gone forever. The message was accompanied by a compass labeled "Your Discs", which pointed to an unknown location.[3]
The message from Tommy to Punz
The day before the Disc Confrontation, Punz discovered a message from Tommy in his tower as well as a chest with diamonds, gold, netherite and TNT. In the message, Tommy said he had been suspicious of Punz ever since Punz had helped during the Doomsday War, and that he hoped that the payment would keep Punz on his side. Punz took the resources and pretended to be conflicted about whether he should betray Dream and help Tommy and Tubbo.[4]
Confrontation
Goodbyes and the first battle
Tommy and Tubbo saying their goodbyes to everyone
On January 20, 2021, Tommy and Tubbo had prepared potions and other resources to prepare for the confrontation with Dream. Tommy had obtained the Axe of Peace from Sapnap, who had come into possession of it during the Doomsday War.[5] They decided to say their goodbyes to everyone as they were scared that they might die. Many server members had gathered along the Prime Path, and Tommy and Tubbo thanked each of them and exchanged their final words.[6]
As they followed the compass, Tommy and Tubbo passed through a forest and got into a boat. After some travelling, they reached a shattered savanna biome where they climbed up a tall mountain. Dream was waiting for them at the top of the mountain. Tommy and Tubbo asked him why he had wanted to meet them there, but Dream avoided the question and only said that from the beginning it had always been Tommy and Tubbo versus Dream for the discs.[7]
Dream started building up with obsidian and placed down a jukebox. He played the Mellohi disc on the jukebox and encased it in more obsidian. Tubbo began fighting Dream as a distraction while Tommy mined through the obsidian to reach the jukebox, taking the disc out of it. Tommy tried to place the disc in his ender chest, but was unable to because he kept getting caught up in the fight with Dream. Eventually, Dream told Tommy and Tubbo to stop fighting him. He said that he had not even used any potions yet and that he was better prepared than Tommy and Tubbo were. Dream ordered Tommy to give him the disc or else he would kill Tubbo. He attacked Tubbo, who got to very low health and started shouting for Tommy's help. Tommy managed to reach an ender chest and put the disc in it, but Dream said it changed nothing.[8]
Tommy, Tubbo, and Dream on the mountain
Tommy was again given the choice between giving Dream the disc or Tubbo dying. He was unsure what to do, and Tubbo urged him to keep the disc and that he was fine with dying. Tommy instead got the disc from his ender chest and handed it to Dream. However, Dream laughed and said that the disc was not even Tommy's disc. He threw both Mellohi and a Cat disc on the ground and blew them up with TNT. Dream explained that he just wanted to show how powerless Tommy and Tubbo were and how powerful he was, even when Tommy did not have the real disc.[9]
Dream said he was done playing around and ordered Tommy to drop the Axe of Peace. When Tommy did so, Dream dug a hole and made Tommy and Tubbo drop all their items in it. Dream then placed TNT on the items and blew them up. He made Tommy and Tubbo follow him to the location of the real discs. They went down the mountain and Dream said he had always been one step ahead of Tommy and Tubbo. He had made both of them think he was their friend, and he had blown up the Community House and framed Tommy for it to obtain one of the discs.[10]
A collection for control
At the side of the mountain, Dream dug through the stone, revealing a cave with a blackstone and obsidian platform. The three went on the platform and it started going down. They descended into a blackstone vault that went down to bedrock level. It had a large Nether portal, two ender chests, and pictures of Tommy's discs, as well as the real discs in an item frame on separate squares of gold blocks.[11]
The vault with the real discs
Dream said that Tommy had been a headache ever since joining the server, but that he had made Dream realize how important attachments were. Attachments could be used to give people power over each other. Dream claimed that he had cut all his attachments so he could not be controlled, losing everything to gain everything. He said that if he owned and controlled everything that people were attached to, then he could control the server again and turn it back to what it used to be.[12]
Dream took Tommy and Tubbo to a corridor on the side of the room, which contained item frames, fence posts, and cages for all valuable attachments on the server:[13]
- Technoblade's axe, the Axe of Peace
- Punz's shulker box, Punzo Shulker
- A piece of bedrock (both Techno and Tommy owned one)
- Sapnap's fish, Beckerson and Mars
- Ranboo's cat, Enderchest
- Purpled's dog, DogChamp
- Tubbo's fox, Squeeks
- Skeppy (important to BadBoyHalo)
- Sam's dog, Fran
- Tommy's cow, Henry
- Ghostbur's sheep, Friend
- Technoblade's horse, Carl
Dream showing the hallway with all attachments
After showing them this, Dream said that he needed Tommy to continue bringing attachment to the server. Therefore, he could not kill Tommy. Instead, Dream told them about how he had built a prison that was inescapable. He said he would lock Tommy away in this prison forever, as he needed Tommy alive but did not need him to be free. Dream stated that the prison was not meant for Tommy originally, but that Tommy and Tubbo did not need to know who it had been for.[14]
Dream explained that while he needed Tommy alive, he did not need Tubbo anymore, since he considered him a pawn and a follower. He said that Tommy wanted to be the hero of the server, and that every hero needed an origin story, which could be Tubbo's death. Dream took Tommy and Tubbo to the center of the room to give them a chance to say goodbye. Tommy would be going to prison but Tubbo would die.[15]
The uprising
Punz leading other server members to Dream's location
Tommy was upset and tried to plan an escape through the portal, but Tubbo told him to give up and that all good things had to come to an end eventually. While they were saying their goodbyes, Punz came through the Nether portal. He stated that Dream should have paid him more, after which a large number of the server members followed him out the portal: Puffy, Eret, Callahan, Sam, Sapnap, Nihachu, BadBoyHalo, Antfrost, HBomb, Jack Manifold, Ranboo (in his enderwalk state),[16] Ponk, and Quackity. Tommy and Tubbo quickly ran behind the other people, who protected them from Dream.[17]
Tommy and Tubbo each took a disc out of the item frames and put them in their ender chests. Tommy got a pickaxe from Sapnap and went up to Dream. He taunted Dream, saying that he knew Dream was not going to kill him. He dug a hole in the floor and made Dream put all his items in it. Tommy jumped in to get Dream's items and equipped the armor and weapons. Dream said that he knew that Tommy would not kill him either, because they had so much fun together. Tommy responded that Dream had caused him nothing but pain and then killed him with the Axe of Peace.[18]
Dream handing over all his items to Tommy
After dying, Dream came down the elevator. He said that Tommy would not kill him again, as he had killed him once already. Tommy vowed that he would kill Dream until he was gone. He then killed Dream with his crossbow. Following his second death, Dream no longer wanted to go down the elevator. Tommy threatened to kill himself if Dream did not come down, and said he needed to tell Dream something he had never told him before.[19]
Instead of the elevator, Dream came into the room through the Nether portal and told Tommy that he had been punished enough with dying twice. Tommy asked if Dream had any last words and kept shooting him with his crossbow. Dream then yelled at Tommy to stop just as Tommy was about to kill him with the Axe of Peace. He said he could bring people back to life and pleaded with Tommy to listen to his explanation.[20]
Dream explained that Schlatt had given him the Revival Book in return for fighting on his side during the Manberg vs Pogtopia War. Since Schlatt had died and nobody else knew about the book, if Dream died now, then death would be permanent. Wilbur or anyone else who would die in the future would be dead forever. This was why Tommy had to let Dream go. He promised that he would leave and would not do anything or come back. Tommy asked whether Dream was lying about being able to bring people back to life, but Dream confirmed that he was telling the truth.[21]
Prison
Tommy deciding to put Dream in prison
Tommy built an obsidian box and made Dream go in it. He wondered whether Dream was worth keeping alive and told Dream that he could not just let him go free. Sam interrupted them and proposed that they should put Dream in the prison until they had to bring somebody back to life. Tommy and everyone else agreed to this solution, though Tubbo added that it sounded weirdly too perfect. Tommy promised he would come visit Dream in prison the next day.[22]
Leaving Sam to keep an eye on Dream, Tommy addressed the crowd and told them that it was not him who had blown up the Community House. At Tommy's insistence, Dream said that he had blown it up. Tommy tried to get Dream to admit to more things, such as what had happened during his exile, but Dream stopped responding. Tommy then went on to tell everyone that every single bad thing on the server had been caused by Dream and that Dream was the root of all problems.[23]
When Sapnap asked what was in the hallway behind them, Tommy explained that Dream had wanted to collect everything that meant something to people so that he could gather all the power. Tommy told Sapnap to take Beckerson since it was his fish. He said that Dream was the villain and a monster, and asked everyone for another chance.[24]
Dream being taken to prison by Sam, Sapnap, and BadBoyHalo
Tommy then let Dream out of the obsidian box. Sam, Sapnap, and BadBoyHalo escorted Dream up the elevator to put him in the prison. Tommy thanked everyone and went through the Nether portal with Tubbo. Tubbo said that he thought he would die, and that he was surprised that Punz had saved them since he thought that Punz hated them. They went through the Nether to the central portal and entered the overworld again.[25]
Aftermath
Tommy and Tubbo walked the Prime Path to the bench outside of Tommy's house. They started listening to the discs when they heard Wilbur's voice speaking to them from the Afterlife. Wilbur said that he was proud of Tommy and that he did not expect Tommy to get his discs back without killing Dream or dying himself. Tommy told him that the reason Dream was not dead was because they could bring Wilbur back to life. However, Wilbur said he had no interest in being alive again.[26]
Tommy and Tubbo listening to the discs on the bench
After Wilbur left, Tommy gave Tubbo some of Dream's equipment, including his armor.[27] Tommy then left and Tubbo went to Snowchester. Tubbo put Dream's armor and his items in his vault, since he believed that too much grief had gone on in the armor. He said the equipment would remain safe in the vault in Snowchester until it was needed.[28]
Result
Dream and Punz's plan ended up working, as everyone believed that Punz had betrayed Dream and was no longer on his side.[29] A year later, Dream admitted to Sam that the Disc Confrontation had been all theater and show, though he did not mention anything about its actual intended purpose. He said that he had never wanted to control people, pointing out how it made no sense for him to want to keep Skeppy in a two-by-one box if he had built an entire prison.[30]
Dream and Punz explaining the Disc Confrontation to Tommy and Tubbo
Months after that, Tommy and Tubbo ambushed and killed Dream in Pandora's Vault.[31] Because they did not know that Punz was still on Dream's side, they told Punz about Dream's death and invited him to join their new nation. Punz led Tommy and Tubbo into a trap where he revived Dream in front of them, leading to Tommy and Tubbo being captured.[32] Since they did not understand why Punz had turned on them, Dream and Punz explained how they had staged the Disc Confrontation and that it had been part of their plans all along.[33]
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