Ooooo things are going down already...

ALSO I WAS NOTICED BY SO MANY SENPAIS?!? WHAT?! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

-silent squealing-

So, Ren and Mumbo hang out for a day for reasons I can't currently say or it'll spoil the plot. Iskall and Grian find out. First told with Iskall and Grian, before getting explained with Mumbo and Ren.

Oh yeah, this is before either of them confess by the way- I'm having it so that everything I write usually happens in one world, one after the other unless said otherwise. Y'all chill with dat?

Also False and Ren friendship is AMAZIN- the flirt and the fighter. Wait... Does that mean together they are... ThE lAdYkIlLeR?!-

Never mind-

Lettuce commence... Uce.
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Mumbo and Grian were both hanging out in Mumbo's base, simply laughing around. Just before, Poultry Man had decided to egg the moustache man once again and Grian was currently helping him clean up.

"Yeah, I completely underst- augh!"

Mumbo was cut off by slipping on the cracked remarks of another egg, and falling to the floor. Grian sniggered and Mumbo soon joined in.

"Silly spoon. Here-" The strawberry blond held his hand out to his fallen comrade, pulling him to his feet. "-Up you... Get..."

He didn't expect Mumbo be pulled quite so close. Grian had almost face-planted the taller male's upper chest. As he stared up into Mumbo's eyes, it was clear to see that neither had expected the sudden loss of personal space. Mumbo coughed awkwardly before stepping away, scratching the nape of his neck... And... Almost whacking Grian in the face with his elbow.

Both were reduced to giggles again.

Until... BEEP!

Mumbo's communicator-phone-screen thingy (should we call it a C.P.S.T... yeah, we will. Beeps for messages, rings for calls, clicks for server-wide announcements)

Mumbo's C.P.S.T sounded, signalling he had a message. He pulled it out from his suit pocket, reading the message quickly with a confused look on his face.

"Um... I'm sorry cut this hang-out off short, Grian, but apparently I've got to go... You can leave if you want, I'll finish cleaning up a bit later..." Mumbo muttered, attempting to fly off without any rockets. Grian held back a laugh from confusion.

"Fff... Ok then. But, just out of interest, who are you going to meet? Iskall?"

"No, actually, False has just called me to come over to Ren's place. And..." Another beep. "Ren's just said 'yes, really definitely need to see your face."

(Author's note: Ok, to anyone who don't understand this part, Ren's being sarcastic, but Mumbo doesn't read the message like Ren's being sarcastic. So Grian thinks Ren's being serious. Oh no.)

Grian's grin fell a few millimetres. Mumbo noticed. "Um... Are you... Ok with this?"

Fidgeting with his own elytra, Grian simply nodded. "Oh. By the way. You need rockets to take off Mumbo." The grin was back, but seemed more strained.

"Oh for goodness-I'm such a spoon... Thanks Grian. See you." Mumbo face-palmed, before actually flying off.

Grian was about to immediately text Iskall once he thought Mumbo was far away enough, but as he opened up their chat, it seemed that Iskall had already beaten him to it.

"Come to False's place, but don't let her see you. I'll be behind it. I think you'll want to be here... What good timing, Iskall..."
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At the same time as all of the above events happened, on the other side of the server, Ren and Iskall had been hanging out in a similar fashion at Ren'a base. This time, they were only sorting out Ren's terrible storage after a new mining session though.

"I thought she was going to kill me after I saw her video! You realised you almost had Falsey kill me for your doing, right?" Ren laughed, recalling Iskall's giant chicken-in-a-Grian-costume prank. Cleo had seen it before False had and changed Iskall's signature on a sign to Ren's, resulting in False very nearly killing him over a wrong cause.

Over and over again.

"Aw come on! That was Cleo, I signed it myself, so this wouldn't happen, it was just fate that Cleo wrote your name."

"What? Fate that Cleo wanted me to die?"

"Naw. Fate, because wherever there's an Iskall... There's a Rendog."

A short silence ensued as the potential meaning behind Iskall's words sunk in. A small blush graced both of their features.

Ren awkwardly laughed it off, throwing a wink at Iskall instead (because that really helps).

"C'mon Iskall. I thought I was the flirter. Don't be stealing my title!"

"As if anyone would try." A new voice joined their talk, breaking the awkward blanket of fluster quite nicely. It was a False, leaning against the door and smirking at the surprised looks on the boys' faces.

"Falsey! What brings you to my humble abode?"
"Hey False, what's up?"

False didn't reply for a second, staring at both Ren and Iskall. "Nothing much. Just that I need to borrow Ren for a second. Is that ok with you both, or am I... Interrupting something~?"

A blush cane onto both of the boys' face.

"F-False! Well, we just just hanging out, nothing more! What is it you need Ren for anyway, and why can't I come...?" Iskall replied casually. False saw through this immediately, as did Ren. It took silly, bad liars to spot silly, bad liars after all (no, Ren, Ren is a silly bad liar, not False-).

Actually... Now that she thought of it, False never exactly got Ren back for the recent prank he'd done to her base...

A new idea sprouted in False's mind.

"Because as great as it is too see you two... Ahem... Getting along so well, Ren needs to help... With a certain something. Geez, stop being so nosey, I'm sorry I had to crash your... Date, but Ren, could you please just-"

The blush came back, and Ren immediately walked out the door, covering his red face. False followed him out with a laugh. Iskall, after this, simply sat down obediently and waited for them to come ba-

Yeah no. This was way too suspicious not to check out.

Iskall followed the two outside, where False had stopped Ren and was currently talking to him. Ren's face turned from proud, to fearful, to again flustered as the blonde girl talked. From where he was, Iskall currently couldn't hear what they were saying, so he moved closer, hiding behind a very conveniently placed bush. It wasn't very comfortable, however, and some of the words in the conversation got cut off with the rustling of annoying leaves.

"B-But- you know I don't-"

"Yeah, I know. That's why I'm going to ask..." False opened up her C.P.S.T, looking at something. "... Mumbo to do it with you."

False quickly typed in what seemed to be a message. Ren covered his eyes.

"... This is humiliating..."
"C'mon, Ren. What happened to your old 'Ren-charm'?"

Ren sighed before texting something of his own. A short beep afterwards showed them both Mumbo's reply. The wolf-hybrid (oh yeah. Ren is werewolf. I forgot to say earlier.) covered his eyes again, ears covering them too. False started guiding him towards her base.

"C'mon, Ren. Chin up. Might not be perfect... But I guess you could say... It's... A date!... My base really..."

That was all Iskall heard before the two travelled too far away. He bit back a low growl, immediately pulling out his own C.P.S.T and sending a short, but swift message to Grian: 'Come to False's place, but don't let her see you. I'll be behind it. I think you'll want to be here...'

Grian reply cane with a beep: 'I was just about to text you something similar. I'll meet you there.'

(Time skippu)000000000000000000000
"That's what she said? Is-Is False setting-"

"-Mumbo and Ren up? I really, really don't want to think about it, Grian." Iskall replied. The two other Architects were currently, again, in a bush behind False's base, watching their third member interact with Ren. False had walked off earlier, where to, the boys didn't care too much about. It only meant less people to keep track of.

Through a moderately sized hole at the front of the bush, the two boys watched as Mumbo and Ren joked around, discussing something together. They both growled simultaneously.

Suddenly, with a bang, Mumbo tripped over a badly placed bucket and fell forwards sharply... And Ren caught him. They both stared at each other for what seemed like a painful eternity to a angry Grian and Iskall, but they were both still fine, totally ok with this, totally chilled-

Ren muttered something with a smile and reached out, holding Mumbo's tie and-

"WHAT ARE YOU-"
"I KNEW IT!"

Iskall and Grian both burst out of the bush at the same time, and were promptly caught in a lead being thrown around them. An annoyed False leapt down from her hiding place, crossing her arms while Mumbo and Ren stood up properly, confused out of their minds.

"Iskall, Grian, would you both be so kind as to explain why you're hiding in a BUSH. BY. MY. BASE?!" False glared, the said hermits quivering under her gaze.

Iskall was the one who spoke up. "We will if you explain to us why you're trying to set Ren and Mumbo up on a date!"

"Wait what?!"

False, Mumbo and Ren were all momentarily jarred by what Iskall had said... Until realisation dawned on both Ren and False, and they started laughing crazily. Mumbo just stood there, still extremely confused.

"W-WAit- YOU THOUGHT THAT- I-AND THEY- PFFFFT!"

"... So. Um... C-Care to explain... False?" Grian mumbled in an attempted angry voice, far too clouded in confusion to sound genuine.

After a few more seconds of False and Ren dying, False asked "Ok, I can't explain this until you tell me why you thought what you thought. I honestly have no idea why you'd think that, but it's all a big misunderstanding, trust me. You first then."

It was clear that False was still trying very hard not to snigger as Iskall and Grian explained what they'd heard. This, however, had the opposite effect on Ren- he had calmed down considerably was smiling with Mumbo now.

"Ok... Ok-fff- I think... I think I've got it. Now. Let me recount what you've seen and jumped to conclusions on..."

(Flashback to pretty much everything that caused Iskall and Grian to be not-jealous beans below (so like... Literally every event that transpired with False in it.)
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False stopped Ren just outside of his base.

"So. You decided to prank my base by flooding the area around it, hm?" False questioned, unamused by Ren's suddenly proud face. She then whipped out her sword and giggled at the other hermit's expression becoming fearful in an instant. "You're going to make it up to me by fixing my new farm. It keeps messing itself up. Oh, and you can't ask your darling Iskall to help you."

Ren's face turned pink at False's choice of words. "B-But- you know I don't do redstone!"

"Yeah, I know. That's why I'm going to ask someone who does to help." False opened up her C.P.S.T, looking at something. "Huh. Looks like only one redstone dude's free right now. I'll ask Mumbo to do it with you."

False quickly typed in what seemed to be a message. Ren covered his eyes.

"... This is humiliating... Redstone of all things...We hardly talk too!..."
"C'mon, Ren. What happened to your old 'Ren-charm'?"

Ren sighed before texting a sarcastic of his own. False tutted at him with a small grin. A short beep afterwards showed them both Mumbo's reply: a simple message stating that he was on his way. The wolf-hybrid covered his eyes again, ears covering them too in procrastinating annoyance. False started semi-forcefully guiding him towards her base.

"C'mon, Ren. Chin up. Might not be perfect, as it's your punishment, but I guess you could say it's sort of a date! Even if it's with the wrong person... My base really needs the farm done though, so hurry up!"

A loud rustle alerted False, though she knew if she let her eyes off of Ren, he'd make a run for it. Now wary, she told Ren that she'd leave him with a Mumbo to do something else, knowing that Mumbo wouldn't lie to her.

When Mumbo arrived, False handed both boys a few redstoney things, and explained to Mumbo what they needed to do, before walking off and hiding behind a nearby pillar. She looked around, and spotted a rather strange looking bush- there looked as if there was something red in it, and a blue thing kept glinting in the sunlight.

She decided not to do anything now though, in case she was wrong about her suspicions (she highly doubted they would be wrong though...).

On ground level, Mumbo and Ren started discussing what the problem was. Both found that the other was a lot more fun than they initially thought, and started making jokes too. It wasn't quite fun as being with Grian/ Iskall (respectively), but it was fun nonetheless!

"So, you were hanging out with Iskall? That's funny, I just came from hanging out with Grian and- AGH!"

Suddenly, with a bang, Mumbo tripped over a badly placed bucket and fell forwards sharply... And Ren caught him instinctively, stopping the taller hermit from face-planting the hard stone wall.

They both stared at each other for one or two seconds before Ren started smiling, holding back laughter.

"Mumbo, mate, how much redstone do you screw around with exactly? You've got some dust on your tie, here, let me..."

Ren gently grabbed Mumbo's tie so as not to strangle him and wiped it off with his thumb, about to playfully tell the taller man off for being messier than he was but suddenly-

"WHAT ARE YOU-"
"I KNEW IT!"

(Author's note: Note how everything was exaggerated to be extra romantic in Iskall and Grian's eyes lol.)
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Grian and Iskall were then forced by False to apologise to her, Mumbo and Ren for spying on them. To add to the humiliation, she also forced them to kneel down while saying their 'sincerest apologies' as well.

In the end though, they all laughed it off, and had a group hangout to improve False's farm, with Mumbo and Iskall fixing the redstone and Grian and Ren decorating it to perfection. False was very pleased with the results.

However, after Mumbo and Ren had flown off and the two mischief makers were about to, she stopped them to ask a question that had been bugging her.

"Hey, Grian, Iskall, before you two go... Can I just ask... Why... Were you two so bothered if I was setting Mumbo and Ren up anyw-"

FWOOSH!

The two, now quite red-faced, boys speedily flew off into the sky before she could finish her question.
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Author's notes
Did I mean for be so long? No. Am I happy with my first HC fanfic? I guess? Do I need requests? ... Yyyyyyes...