10hDr and 10cDr were having a Zoom meeting to recap a rehearsal of their play, 1984, that had happened earlier that day. The teacher was going off about how important said recap was when the incident began.

"This summary is actually still good for the people who were there, because we'll go over the technical vocabulary-y-y-" And with that, the teacher's audio feed cut out into meaningless grinding noises.

"Uh... you're lagging." Ren pointed out.

"Just a little." BDubs added. The teacher's video flickered, and then vanished entirely. Mumbo looked at his screen in alarm, then went a bright red and dived out of view to hide his panic as a notification popped up on everyone else's screens.

Goldstein (Mumbo) is the host now.

"Uh... what just happened?" Impulse asked.

"I think the teacher's internet cut out." Ren guessed, shrugging slightly and picking up a guitar from beside where he was sat.

"And I'm the host now and I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!" Mumbo added, unmuting.

"Oh, just quit out so I can be the host!" Iskall suggested. Mumbo gave them a look.

"No... I'm gonna... uh... um..." Mumbo trailed off.

"Well, we should still get the work done." False picked up, after a brief awkward silence.

"Right. Summarising. Uh." X agreed, then began typing into chat.

Thoughtcriminal (X): 1) Be a tree, moving in the wind

Thoughtcriminal (X): 2) Winston chases Julia and the ensemble moves showing the excitement of being chased

"What was up with the rostra, they were like, all over the place?" Evil X asked.

"Oh, that was to show the scene change, breaking from society or something." BDubs shrugged, as X typed basically the same thing into chat. There was an awkward silence.

"I'm gonna make The Host the host." Mumbo decided. Half the class simultaneously told him to quit out instead. They all groaned in disappointment when the notification popped up.

Host (Zedaph) is the Host now.

"Zed's AFK!" Impulse pointed out.

"Good. Then nobody can cause problems." False replied.

There was another awkward silence.

"Hey, look at Grian's profile pic!" Iskall called out. It was a parrot. Grian turned his camera on to hide it, frowning. He and Iskall had a staring contest, until he eventually relented, turning his camera back off. Somehow his profile pic had turned into Grain during that time period.

Meanwhile, the chat was going off again.

Thoughtcriminal (X): 3) Winston "kisses" Julia by wearing face masks and Joe touches his lips and then puts his hand near Cleo's, the ensemble then copies Julia's movement as she touches her lips.

Father (Doc): No, it is the left side that copies Joe's movement, then the right side copies Cleo.

Thoughtcriminal (X): Oh yeah.

Telescreen (Evil X): What do I do????????

Telescreen (Evil X): I'm in the void??????

Thoguhtcriminal (X): Ask the teacher I guess.

Before anything further could happen though, the screen went all funky and then a notification popped up.

Thoughtcriminal (X) is the host now.

"WHAT!?" X exclaimed, surprised. "Why am I the host!?"

"Because Zoom is terrible?" Etho suggested. X shrugged.

"How do I make Host the host again?" He asked, clicking madly.

"Quit out!" Iskall called out.

"No!" Scar cut them off. "You don't quit out, that makes it random! You go to participants... and then you... uh... you go to participl- particip- I can't talk."

"No, no you can't." Grian agreed. His profile pic had somehow turned into a picture of Wels' bike stuck up on one of the school fences. Nobody questioned it.

"Words... words are difficult." Scar sighed, dejected, and muted his mic to sulk in silence.

At about that time, X received a private message from Keralis.

Syme (Keralis :D): SHASHWAMYVOID

Thoughtcriminal (X): Don't call me that.

Syme (Keralis :D): Sorry. THE SHASHWAMYVOID.

Syme (Keralis :D): What Scar is trying to say.

Syme (Keralis :D): Is you click on participants.

Syme (Keralis :D): Then you click on Zed's name.

Syme (Keralis :D): Then you open the 'more' menu

Syme (Keralis :D): Then you click 'make host'

Syme (Keralis :D): then a popup will appear

Syme (Keralis :D): hit yes

The notification that the Host was the host popped up almost immediately. Keralis beamed.

"You know, I just realised something." Beef pointed out.

"Oh?" Everyone asked, even the people that were muted.

"Someone's gonna have to tell the teacher that we're still doing this."

"Oh, I already started that." Tango spoke up, fumbling switching tabs as he did so. "I'm just pasting chat over now."

"What a brave soul!" Impulse called out. "We are honoured by your sacrifice." He added, grinning. Tango chuckled drily.

After yet another awkward pause, False spoke up.

"...should we just read through the scene again?"

And then a miracle occurred. Somehow, despite the sheer chaotic energy of some of those present, they did read through the scene, without any fooling around or interruptions, beyond Cleo not bothering to do her usual voice for the character. They were so dedicated, they even ran ten minutes over time.

As the group bade their farewells, it soon came to be that only Grian, Mumbo, Ren, Scar, Zed and Iskall were left. Iskall was about to leave, when someone started strumming a guitar.

"Who's that?" They asked.

"Whoever O'Brien is... oh! Ren!" Mumbo replied.

"Well, I'm sticking around, then." Grian declared. Scar nodded. After Ren's song was over, they bade their farewells, and then Zed ended the meeting.

So basically this happened to me yesterday and I was like 'haha what if that happened to the Hermits' and then I remembered this AU.

It's all accurate. Even the bit about actually getting the work done.

I've been Entropy, peace out from the present!