Scar stumbled along to Xisuma's base. It had been quite a while since he had seen him so he decided to check. He flew through the sky's admiring the view, hoping it would still be there soon. He spotted Xisuma's base and flew closer. Suddenly he felt something warm behind him. Then it felt very hot. A fireball hit him as Helsknight flew behind him, readying another fire ball. Another fire ball wasn't needed though as Scars elytra caught fire. They disintegrated and Scar fell to the ground. A fiery mess.

Hels blasted multiple fire balls around and the entire forest around them caught fire. Hels landed, illuminated by the fiery glow. Scar stumbled backwards, scared.

"What do you want? Where's your leader?" Scar said quickly. He had to stand his ground.

"Iskall?" Hels growled. "I may be on his side but don't you dare think for one minute that I work for him. As for what I want, I'm here to send a message. Not from Iskall but from me."

"What's the message? Who's it for?" Scar asked. He had to get rid of Hels. He definitely couldn't fight him.

"The message is for everyone. And I mean everyone. The message?" Hels nodded to the blazing trees around him. "You will burn." With that he disappeared.

Scar looked at his burns and wounds from the fall. Nothing too bad. He has quite a reputation for crashing and this was nothing. He limped along till he arrived at Xisuma's base. He walked through the door, forgetting to knock. He saw Xisuma at the table, helmet off, eating toast and staring at a map and a page full of notes. He had bags under his eyes. "Hey Scar!" He looked at the mayors burns. "Did you crash at Rens base again?" Xisuma winced at the mention of his friends name. One thing led to another and he was thinking about Stress again. He hid the emotion well though.

Scar tried to chuckle. "Nah." His face dropped. "It's actually a lot more serious then that. I had a run in with Wels, or Hels as he likes to be called."

Xisuma looked at his breakfast. "What did he say?"

"He said something about how we will burn. He also got angry when I mentioned Iskall. Apparently he doesn't work for him."

Xisuma stood up. "It's actually Hels I'm worried most about. He's definitely be the biggest threat to the server."

"What do we do?" Scar asked.

"I have an idea. It's incredible risky though. I will have to consider it for a while."

Scar nodded. "I'm going to text everyone. "Quick roll call. Also a update." He typed on his phone and nearly everyone answered immediately. "That's odd. Stress hasn't answered. Have you seen her?"

Tears formed at Xisuma's eyes. "I'll be right back." He ran upstairs.

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"Done!"

Iskall stared at his creations, craziness in his eyes. Cleo and Etho were sitting up before him. Mumbo and Grian were also in the room. Cleo and Ethos eyes were filled with black.

"What's wrong with them?" Mumbo asked, staring into the void in Ethos eye.

Iskall smiled. "Mind control, that's what."

Grian tilted his head in confusion. "Show us."

Iskall agreed. "Cleo. Go punch that wall."

The zombie stood up and punched a wall. Iskall grinned. "I'm gonna show everyone else." He ran out.

"God, he's like a mad scientist." Grian said.

"You got that right. I wonder why we got these guys specifically." Mumbo looked at the two hermits.

"If I had to guess Iskall wants Cleo for a armour stand army, Xisuma for admin powers but I have no clue for Etho." He stared curiously at the ninja.

"Are we ever gonna go back to get Xisuma? He could be really helpful."

Grian shrugged. "Even without him we stand a chance. Especially Hels. I don't think there is a single force that could oppose him."

"Well..." Mumbo looked at him. "There is one."

"Don't worry. He's not even in this dimension.

"Yeah true."

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Iskall ran out. "Hels! You have to see this."

Hels looked at him. "Later, nerd."

Iskall looked at the knight. He hadn't been happy recently. He had only moved from the couch once since Stress arrived."Fine. Where's Grim and Stress?"

Hels groaned. "Who cares where those losers are?"

Iskall sighed and looked out the window. Grim and Stress were flying off to the shopping district. He returned back to Grian and Mumbo. He then looked at Cleo. "Make a army of 300 armour stands. I'll show you the room.

"Called it! Pay up." Grian celebrated. Mumbo sighed and gave him a diamond.

"Oh yeah that reminds me. Iskall what is Etho for?" Mumbo asked.

"Oh Etho is more powerful than you could ever imagine. He was probably the only one who could rival us. Now he's out of the picture we've basically already won."

"But what's so great about him?"

"You will see. War is coming friends."

"Oh come on! Can't you just tell us now?" Grian exclaimed.

"No. It's hard to explain. You'll have to see it in action."

Mumbo groaned.

Iskall patted his back. "Cheer up. Let's go check on Grim and Stree before the blow up the shopping district or something. These moves need to be timed perfectly. Destruction is an art.

They flew down to the shopping district to start looking. They saw them planting TNT around various shops. Stress looked and waved. "We're blowing up the shopping district!"

"Wait not yet!" Iskall started carefully removing TNT.

"But if we cut off their supply it will be easier for us." Grim said.

"You heard him. Pack it up." Mumbo started picking it up as well.

"No fun." Grim said.

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After a few minutes Scar went upstairs. He figured it was best to check on Xisuma. He walked down a hallway until he reached Xisuma's bedroom. He knocked then entered. Xisuma was sitting on his bed looking at the floor. Scar could see tears dropping down. He silently walked over and sat next to him. "Hey buddy. What's wrong."

Scar new it was a dumb question to ask. There was a war happening. They had already lost friends to the other side and it could get worse. Xisuma looked at him. "I can't handle this anymore. First with the war, losing everybody and last night Ren showed up."

"Really? Why?" Scar asked.

"He threatened me. I was genuinely scared. And now we lost Stress to the other side, just because I was a coward."

Scar put his arm around him. "It's fine. You acted normally. Beside, Stress isn't gone forever. We'll get her back. Same with the rest. Their under a influence, I can tell. Hels is a different person. Definitely not Wels anymore."

"I know. There's just so much pressure on me as the admin. And I can't see how we can get out of this without anyone getting hurt. It just started and Bdubs almost died!"

"I know. But we will save everyone. No one is dying."

Xisuma smiled. He hugged scar. "Thanks. But for now, people can't see this." He put on his helmet.

"It's ok to have emotions, you're only human."

"Yeah. This is for everyone else's sake." He stood up. "Ok. I think we should go with my idea. This is going to be very risky."

The two of them walked down stairs as Xisuma walked to a nether portal. Xisuma carved a symbol into a diamond. He looked at Scar. "You ready?"

He nodded. He knew what was going to happen. Xisuma threw the diamond in the portal. After a few seconds the portal turned red. A figure walked out, chained. After a second the chains fell off.

"Oh Xisuma, it is good to be back. What season are we on now?"

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Come on! You know who it is, right? Kinda obvious. This will be fun.

Next chapter: Evil Returns