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Xisumavoid was killed by Iskall85

"Iskall... what- what are you doing?" asked Grian while pulling out his sword.

" Oh. Me? I'm doing perfectly fine. how about you." Iskall laughed sinisterly. His shirt was covered in X's blood. "I'm just playing with my friend, death. Oh? Looks like death wants to play with you too." Iskall forcefully swings his sword. 

Something isn't right.

Something definitely isn't right.

Grian and the others could tell.

Light grey eyes.

That color. 

That wasn't iskall.

It didn't shine vibrantly unlike himself.

His suit was red, not green.

Nobody ever thought that iskall would be controlled. What if he's being controlled by the Astras? Maybe he has just gone crazy.  

Shift POV: Iskall85

"H-hello? Why am I in this void-like place?"

He found a dark figure across the room. 

He approaches the figure

Wearing a red suit

covered in blood

with a knife.

Light grey eyes

Red robotic eye. 

As if it was like a disoriented version of him.

" he-hello? C-can y-you hear me?" Iskall studdered, worried that the figure was gonna kill him.

Yourself, Iskall.

"W-why am I here?"

Because you died. Ever thought of this? Your friends left you alone to chop some wood. While the others group up? Don't you feel left out?

" I- I-"

Yes, you do, you know you do.

" What do you want from me?"

 Your spirit. I'll make you a deal. I'll take revenge for your friends. and you give me your spirit. Deal?

" What- NO Why would I take revenge?!"

Do you remember? Your friends betrayed you, and still have. They left you alone because they don't care about you. Think about the last time you had fun with them? Ages ago, right? That isn't a good friend. I'm trying to help you. Take revenge. vengeance. And power.

"I- I fine," Iskall said without second thoughts.

Good. Now, if you'll excuse me.

Shift POV: Hermits

"Is-Iskall, what happened?" studdered Mumbo.

"Oh. Me? Don't worry about me, worry about yourself. And I'll start with you, Grian"

Grian quickly pulls out his iron sword, he had iron armor while iskall didn't have protection. It will surely be eas-

*splash*

"Whatever that was, you can't beat m-"

Iskall uses his abnormal strength to take him down by 8 hearts, even with iron armor. With 2 hearts to spare, he quickly retreated. Grian bleeding was heavily injured, Impulse Tried stopping the bleeding with a cloth but it wouldn't work. Blood started pouring out of the cloth.

"He-he hits like a truck. And that was his fist." That wasn't normal. Iskall strength wasn't this powerful. Mumbo quickly mounted his minigun and started shooting Iskall. But he didn't even flinch. 

"He hits like a truck, As tough as a brick wall" This didn't look good. They had to retreat. They turned back, only to find Astra members attacking them too. They had no choice but to retreat into the nether. Knowing that they will follow up, Impulse quickly placed tnt to blow up the portal, to prevent them from coming back in. But just as soon as Impulse was about to blow it up. 

"WE FORGOTTEN X" Shouted False, a hermit. Without the admin, It would be even worse. Out of the blue, Etho, the ninja showed up, quickly picked up X, and headed to the nether with the other hermits. Impulse quickly lit up the TNT. They were an inch close to death but made it alive. With Grian still injured, Things would only look to be worse.

SERVER CORRUPTION COMPLETION: 15%

Not good, with only 6 days left, they needed to stop them before the server gets fully corrupted. They spawned on top of a lava lake which was bad. They carefully bridged over the lava. They made it to a netherrack platform. It was burning hot but that didn't stop them from stopping the Astras. While traveling, Impulse and False mined gold while on the way to the nether fortress. 

After a 1000 blocks, They couldn't find a fortress, however, they found a bastion. It was the treasure bastion, the type that had the most gold. They quickly mined all the gold and traded it to the piglins. They didn't get much. some ender pearls and a couple of fire resistance splash potions. 

They sat in a corner, thinking about what had happened with Iskall. Some thought he was possessed, some thinks he was working with Astra. But didn't have time, they came to the nether for one reason and one final reason. To get blaze powders. They found a nether fortress at last and started bridging to it. They placed a cauldron near the blaze spawner and filled it with water, in case they caught on fire so they can just get in and extinguish the fire. They made it out successfully, until...

Mumbo had fallen in lava. It was already bad when...

Perma-death has been turned on

This was bad. Without having second thoughts, they quickly splashed the fire resistance potion to Mumbo, leaving Mumbo with half a heart. Grian quickly splashed some fire resistance on himself to go pick up Mumbo. He found Mumbo, with heavy burns. He quickly put Mumbo into the cauldron to cool down.

It was a miracle that he was alive. But this trip wasn't finished. They had to return to the overworld. They quickly built a portal and hopped in. And with that, All of them had to split up to find another Battleship that was operating well.