Letting her communicator slip through her fingers, Stress gasps. Leaving the device on the floor she shrinks down and flies out of her base towards False's.

The communicator is left on the floor as a steady stream of messages fill the screen.

Someone had left a comment... they had left a comment asking what people think about the hermit's transformations.

Most are neutral or positive, saying things like, Kudos to the hermits for being able to deal with this, or they all look really cool.

But others, the ones that are standing out, the longer comments. The ones with more things to say.

And not nice things.

Hybrids have been in the world as long as the world's been around. No one really knows how they came into being. Was it evolution or magic, that may never be answered. Later something else came up. Hybrid labs. Dark horrible places that would take people, or mobs and fuse them.

Even though most hybrid labs are gone, it's still an issue.

The hermits have a different case than most hybrids. Some people think what's happening to them is faked. That they want this to happen. Now if any of them saw Tango after a respawn or Beef on a bad day, they would see that they don't want this.

But they can't see that. So the hermits get comments like...

You utter freaks, do you know how disgusting it is that you would do this to your selfs then lie about it.

Wow, I would be way to embarrassed to even show my face if I even knew someone who would do this kinda thing.

You guys are grosse... faking hybrid labs. For clout

I can't stand people like you. You even have the watchers helping you

Oh man, when the watchers figure out how your doing this... just give up.

I used to like you, now your doing this.

So first Joe's a vampire and now he's some anchint god. Yeah right. Fakesst thing I've seen

they all changed soo randomly

A mod could like, totally do that, what liars

You can see the glue on this fur, it's clearly stuck on

[Photo of someone's face, where there's some sweat near their hairline so it's a little shiny]

well ACTUALLY birds wings don't look like Grian's so HA

You can't just turn someone into a robot like that, whatever that thing is it's not Mumbo. It's just some poorly made fake. It doesn't even sound like him.

Comments like this, hundreds of them.

________

Xisuma: Hey guys

Xisuma: Could we all come to the Spawn egg, I need to ask you all something

About thirty minutes later everyone is gathered in the spawn egg.

Tango's bundled up in a few blankets since he went out to the snow bowl. Without a jacket. He's pressed in between Zedaph and Impulse. Shaking violently; the cartoon bits of his transformations aren't the best at times.

Leaning over Zedaph whispers, "You better not get a cold."

Tango sneezes and puffs his wings up. Zedaph looks down at him and shakes his head. Gently bopping Tango's face with stegosaurus.

One by one the other hermits walk-in. Scar and Stress sitting up on a shelf. Ren laying on the floor playing a game on his communicator. Cub in his lion form laying on Ren's back.

Joe and Cleo walk in together. Joe clutching a small glowing orb to his chest.

Once everyone is there, Xisuma stands on his hind legs and grips the desk, "So, Iskall, Stress, and Ren, you might have already heard. Some of the people from the Vault Hunters server want to come here. Not to stay or be a hermit. But to prove to others that this..." Xisuma flicks his tail around the room, "Is real."

Silence.

"Why do they need to prove it's real?" Tango asks yawning slightly.

Xisuma looks down, "There are people who still think all this is fake."

"Who wants to come?" Iskall frowns.

"Captainsparklez, Hbomb, and the Tubbo kid," Xisuma sighs, "I gave them all the same warnings I gave Gem and Pearl."

"Now the question is, do we let them in," Impulse murmurs, brushing Tango's hair out of his face.

"I think we could let them in," Xisuma murmurs, "Only for a few days and we give them plenty of warnings."

One by one the hermits agree and they agree to meet them tomorrow. With a transformation newly completed it's the best time to invite others.

Tango's a bit on the fence about them coming... he's just respawned and just feels a bit yucky, but he agrees in the end.

_____

The next morning Iskall, Ren, and Xisuma leave for the Mega hub to pick them up.

The rest of the hermits gather in the spawn egg. All laying around chatting softly. Etho, and Cub laying together on the large dog bed. Stress sitting with Scar and Jellie.

Joe's in the corner in his true form holding Tango on his lap. Tango's attempting to escape. As the time of the arrival draws closer and closer he's feeling it more and more. Murmuring softly to him Joe pets his head and brings him outside to talk for a bit.

Impulse and Zedaph are talking with Keralis and Bdubs, planning the best way to shuffle Tango without stressing him out too much.

Mumbo, Grian, and Pear are chatting softly about the giga base plans. Jrum and Grum standing off to the side. Iskall's chatting with TFC.

The swamp crew, Gem, Jevin, and False are chatting.

Poking his head into the room Joe meets Impulse's eye, "I'll take him back to my base."

Impulse nods, "Yeah, ohh here," He hands over Perry, "He's already stressed, don't want him to get hurt."

Joe nods and turns back to the human, "If you need me back, let me know."

Tango pokes his head in and waves. The others wave back and he leaves.

.........

A few minutes later the others arrive. All three look a little nervous but determined.

Tubbo is standing ramrod straight towards the back as Hbomb looks around the spawn egg excitedly. Captain is over by Iskall.

Ren bounces over to Hbombs side and barks.

A round of introductions is made and they head off for a quick world tour.

____

Somewhere under Doc's base the meteor quivers slightly.

AvarV: :0 people think im fake

RenDog: who taught him the faces

Xisuma: People are saying were lying

AvarV: rude

Xisuma: dont do anything.

"Who was that?" Hbomb asks, looking at his comm.

"Meteor," Doc hisses, "He'll sometimes get into the world chat."

"Weird," Tubbo shrugs, pulling on his back pack straps.

Doc shrugs, "Anyways this is mine and Ren's base. Don't touch anything."

As they continue on to Beef's base they talk about what has happened with the different transformations. From there they head up to boteam, they check out the giga base and head over to TFC's base.

Moving on to Cub's they look at the canyon of drip stone.

As they walk into the Void twin's area they look up at the builds scattered around.

When they make it over to the big eyed gang's bases something is noticed.

"Where is Tango?" Sparklez asks.

"He wasn't feeling too good so he's back in boatem with Impulse," Joe grins walking up to them.

"Aw that's too bad," he frowns, looking up at Fifi, "This really is amazing."

As they continue walking, Hbomb wanders up to Grian, "I think we need to talk."

Fluffing his feathers up Grian jumps, "About what?"

"Your definition of mega."

Grian sighs, "Ok, what."

"Tango's base last season. Not mega! How was that not mega."

"Well it was pretty small..." Grian chirps, laughing.

A moment later Hbomb is laughing as well. They walk past Jevin's base then Stresses, Gem's and Falses.

They head up to Wels' base and down to Iskall and Etho's.

As they look around Cleo and Joe's place they spot Impulse for a moment before he ducks into the nether portal.

They check out the horse head farms then finish the tour off with Zedaph's laboratory.

____

The next morning they get ready to head home. As they all gather in the spawn egg their communicators start to buzz.

AvarV: so, you three can leave but i will call you and you will return

AvarV: The child excluded

AvarV: i will not stoop as low as to harm him

Hbomb looks at Xisuma, "Not kidding is he?"

Xisuma shakes his head, "He's not... I warned you."

Sparkalz nods, "Yeah this is on us. Not you."

Pulling his communicator out of his pocket Tubbo looks at the message and frowns.

[Tubbo @ Avar]

Main chat

Tubbo: Bet

AvarV: as you wish

Iskall: really

RenDog: Bad move man

Tubbo: people are being rude to tommy about this as well.

Tubbo: so yeah

Iskall: not the way to do this

Note: Tubbo and sparkles will not be included. Tubbo due to the DSMP fanbase being far to toxic for my tastes, so im not going to interact and sparkles because I just don't feel like it