Xisuma sat up from his bed. He had a nice afternoon nap and was feeling refreshed. He smiled. He put on his helmet and collected some shulker boxes. He grabbed blocks and started working on his base. He got quite a bit done when his phone rang. He checked it, it was Stress. He pressed answer and held the phone to his ear. "Hello? X here."

"Xisuma? Thank god. I need your help." Her voice sounded panicky. "Meet me at your base." She quickly hung up. Xisuma was confused but he waited until Stress ran over. She had tears running down her face. "Stress? What's wrong?" Stress started to speak but she collapsed to the ground and sobbed. Xisuma instantly ran over and hugged her. He knew better than to question her now. He had to calm her down first. After a couple minutes she stopped. Xisuma took off his helmet and smiled at her. "Come on. Let's go inside."

Stress tried to give him a smile back. "Ok, let's go."

"There's the beautiful smile I love. Now come in and I'll boil the kettle."

They stood in Xisuma's living room and Stress paced the floor. Xisuma looked up. "Sit down with me." She sat next to him. "What's happening." He asked

"Ok you know how Scar said to keep a eye out for a few hermits?" She spoke slowly.

"Yeah?"

"Well I saw Ren. Except it wasn't him. Remember last year in demise?"

Xisuma nodded. "Yeah I activated a spell that turned you greyskin when you're supposed to die."

"Yes with your admin powers. Well he was a grey skin. He was Grimdog again."

Xisuma seemed shocked. "How is that possible. Wait, give me a second." He tapped something in his forearm and a screen popped up. He looked through code then looked up. "That's not right. I turned it off. Then why is Ren still like that?"

"I don't know, I think his job was to kill me but he couldn't bring himself to do it."

"I wonder why. I'm going to call a server meeting."

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"Hey Etho, what's happening." Grian called out as Mumbo and him ran up to the hermit.

"Hey, wait a minute I thought you guys were missing."

"Nah, we're fine." Mumbo replied. "Are you heading to the server meeting too?"

"Yeah, we gotta go." Etho said as Mumbo nodded. Grian discreetly walked behind him and quickly knocked him out.

"Really? Already dude?" Mumbo looked at him.

"At least we didn't have to fight him."

"Yeah true. Who's next?"

"Doc." Grian replied

"He will be at the meeting. Should we go or wait?"

"Let's ask Iskall." The two buddy's walked off back to the base.

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"Ok let's do a roll call." Xisuma and Scar stood on a podium in front of a crowd. "No Iskall, Grian, Mumbo, Ren or Wels. That's to be expected but no Cleo or Etho either."

"That doesn't seem good." Scar looked at the crowd then focused in on Bdubs on a bench. He bandaged him up the best he could. He was worried it wasn't good enough though. He spoke to the crowd. "So as you all know these hermits are missing. They attacked Bdubs and I at the town hall and stole a lot of iskallium. Wels also greatly wounded Bdubs . These people are a massive threat we must deal with. Iskall seems to be the leader. Might anyone know where they are hiding?"

A young hermit stuck his hand up in the crowd. He had brown hair and a black shirt. "Yes Impulse?" Xisuma spoke.

Impulse looked around and cleared his throat. "Iskall and I built a underground bunker recently in the desert." He looked at the ground. "This isn't right. He was perfectly normal when we built it."

"Don't worry. We'll get to the bottom of this." Xisuma looked at the hermits below him. Scared, confused. He had to help. "I'm going to go to this base. Impulse will give me a map and I'll be in and out. We need to know what is going on here."

A girl with long blonde hair looked at him. "That's not a good idea. You should take at team."

"I don't think so, False. But I will take one person for safety reasons. We have to be quiet so not many people can be there. Who is willing to come?"

Many hands if courageous hermits shot up but scar spoke. "I'll go. I've seen them fight. We wouldn't stand a chance. I know how they fight though, I'm your safest option."

"That's settled then. We will leave now."

"Ok just give me one second." Scar stepped down and walked over to Bdubs. "I'm sorry I couldn't help you."

The boomer chuckled. "don't worry man. I'll walk it off."

"You're hurt really bad. Wels or whatever that thing was is going to pay for this."

"Don't hurt him. It's clearly not Wels but we don't know what happened to him. He might not be in control."

"Ok. I won't."

Bdubs smiled. "Stay safe, ok?"

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"And he's back!"

Grim looked around the room and saw a smiling Iskall and Hels watching from a distance.

"How are you feeling." Iskall said.

"It hurts everywhere. I'm back to normal."

"Perfect. I'll be right back." Iskall ran off like a evil scientist. Grim wondered if he had said its alive, it's alive! When he woke up. Hels walked over.

"Hey man you kinda had me worried for a bit." He looked at the floor.

"Me? I had the great nether knight worried? I feel special."

"Don't flatter yourself." Hels grumbled.

"Wasn't planning on it." Grim looked at the mostly empty bunker. He stood out of bed. "What happened. All I remember is guarding that place. Then it's blank."

"Don't worry about it too much."

"What do you mean." Before Hels could answer Iskall walked back in. "I think we got visitors. Let's have some fun."

Iskall walked out again then came back pushing Scar and Xisuma in. He grinned. "Look who I found snooping."

Scar growled. "What is going on with you guys."

Iskall smiled. "We are simply fixing this world and achieving what we want. Is anything wrong with that?"

"You almost killed Bdubs!" Scar yelled.

"My bad." Hels chuckled.

"And you Wels. What is going on with you? Fire and different armour?"

"Actually it's Hels now."

Xisuma looked at him. "Whatever big guy. I've dealt with people like you before."

"Ooooh I'm so scared of the admin." Hels teased. "Wait who's like me?"

"You guys have to stop now." Scar ordered.

Iskall smirked. "Why? Because you're the mayor. That doesn't mean anything anymore. It always goes back to the same thing. I've seen it. A kings and queens world and honey you should see me in a crown."

Scar stepped back as Hels lit his hands alight. (A skill he was still figuring out) Grim drew his scythe and Iskall pulled out his sword. Scar and Xisuma quickly ran out and disappeared. Grian and Mumbo walked through with two large bags and annoyed looks. "We always miss the fun!" Grian groaned.

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Another day, another chapter. (Not literally)

Did you catch the Sherlock reference? God, I love Moriarty.

Next chapter: War?