When Xisuma woke up he couldn't see anyone. He couldn't see much of anything really, as everything was a bit too bright.

Xisuma sits up and rubs at his face only to freeze when his hand brushed something hard. Following the thing up he found a pair of sharp horns on top of his head. As he runs his hands down passed the horns he felt his ears that had become pointed and stick out. As he sits on his bed eyes filling with tears he feels the mask covering the lower half of his face blinking the tears from his eyes he grabs the helmet from next to him, sliding the part of the helmet that helps him breathe out of its slot he Carefully swaps the masks out. As he looks around the room he finds a pair of sunglasses with a sticky note out on them saying since your helmet won't fit Ren's letting you borrow these. X puts the glasses on, smiling softly through the mask.

"Hey! Your awake," Jevin exclaims rushing over to Xisuma as soon as he walks in.

Xisuma opens his mouth to ask what happened and all that comes out is a jumbled mess of sounds.

"You good man?" This was the wrong thing to say as it caused Xisuma to start panicking, as he tried to speak. "X. Calm down," The slime commands. As Xisuma calmed down Jevin slowly explaining that his mouth and jaw had changed shape.

Xisuma grabbed the mask pushing it down and felt the misshapen jaw and mouth. After a moment X replaces the mask. He grabs a book that was in a nearby desk and frantically starts scribbling something down. He shoves the book at Jevin who reads what was written.

"You want this?" Jevin asks holding up a few parts from Xisuma's helmet.

Xisuma nods taking the parts and attaching them to the mask he had on. After a few minutes of working X slides the mask back on. It covered the bottom half of his face, allows him to speak and would stay on without needing any straps. "Where's Doc?"

Stress walks into the room holding some potions. "Doc? He's getting your brother,"

"Why, is he doing that?"

"We thought your helmet was broken, so we wanted to ask him about it. You were unconscious for a few days and we couldn't get it to work, so Doc and Grian went out to find him," Stress explains as she organizes the box of potions. "But, it doesn't seem like you need the helmet fixed,"

Jevin's communicator goes off with a message from Doc saying they would be back soon.

...............

Shoving Jevin out of the way EvilX runs to his brother's side.

"Ex, don't push," Xisuma weakly scolds. Drawing his brother's attention up to his face.

"What happened?" EvilX gasps brushing his brother's hair out from his face tucking it behind one of the horns that had grown in.

Doc steps forwards as if to answer but is cut off by E.X. "I don't think I was asking you. Leave me with my brother. I'll send you a message when Xisuma can talk," As he says this E.X shoves Grian, Doc, Jevin, and Stress out the door. "Now, what happened?"

Xisuma lets out a sigh of relief, he props himself up to look at EvilX then completely breaks down. "I can't do anything. Bad things are happening to the server and I can't do anything to stop it,"

As his brother breaks down in tears EvilX gently pulls his brother closer wrapping him in a hug. "I don't know what's happening, but I promise that I will help you. Now, what is happening to you? Not the server, not anyone else, you,"

Xisuma takes a shaky breath then starts. "A week ago I was almost killed- don't give me that look- I was Surrounded by zombies when it just randomly turned to day. I apparently have access to commands and I don't need to use the block to do the simple ones anymore." Xisuma gives a small smile at this but it quickly falls. "Then last night these, quills, spikes-" Xisuma turns showing E.X the deadly spines on his back "- grew. It hurt so much. I called Doc and he's been helping. He had me change out of my armor," At this point, he looks up into his brother's eyes, solid tear-filled green meeting the red eyes of his brother.

"Hey, it's ok, just breathe,"

"Okay, ok. After I come back from changing Stress and Jevin are here, I wasn't told that they were coming," As E.X rubs his back his breathing calms to a more stable rate. "you know how it is you don't let me call you Exy around others," At this E.X nods his head wrapping his brother in a hug carefully avoiding the spines. "Anyway, I knew that something would happen to my head, I explained the helmets and where we were from.

The spines can open and they figured out how they work. Then my head exploded in pain it was so bad that I passed out and when I woke up Jevin and Stress were there and Doc was getting you, and..."

"You don't trust them as much as you trust Doc," E.X finishes to Xisuma's nod. "What happened to your helmet? I mean I can probably guess but what happened?"

"Not sure, but the helmet is still mostly intact. I was able to fix it so I can breathe. When I woke up, I wasn't able to talk. Because... yeah," Xisuma says removing his mask and showing E.X what had happened to his mouth.

"And what do you think of what's happening to your appearance?" As E.X slowly asks Xisuma this question he completely breaks down into a mess of tears.

"I'm not supposed to be scary, but the way my face looks, the horns, my freaking eyes, my ears look horrible, I can barely form words with the way my mouth is shaped, It's not supposed to push forward. It feels so wrong, Scar didn't have a problem neither did Ren," Xisuma sobs his hands clutching at his horns.

"You want to know something, YOU ARE NOT SCAR OR REN, you are Xisumavoid, one of the best people I have ever met," E.X yells nearly in tears himself hugging his brother as tightly as he could. After a moment Xisuma wraps his arms around his brother and they stay like that for a while.

........................

Xisuma's communicator pinged with a message from Doc asking if he could come back. "Exy, what did you say?" Xisuma asks with a slight laugh.

"I just told them to leave and ask before entering again,"

Xisuma lets out a small chuckle.

"What?"

"You probably scared them off,"

"Oh, well they deserve it for crowding you,"

"Tell Doc that he can come in... I think it might be happening again,"

"What! Ok, I'll call him then you explain," E.X grabs his brother's communicator and messages Doc, telling him to come back to Xisuma's base. "Explain, what is going on?" E.X says sitting down next to his brother.

"I told you that when my head changed it went numb. Well, my hands are feeling the same"

..................

"Scar, what's the meteor doing?" Doc asks as he walks into the room overlooking the meteor.

"When it first started affecting Xisuma it had green flakes peeling off but when he was affected the second time they sharpened into small spikes," Scar responds, flicking his wings to get eye level with Doc. "What's happening to X?"

"We don't know yet, his helmet was broken a little by one of the changes and we got EvilX to come to fix it. I don't know what's happening beyond that he took one look at Xisuma and kicked us out."

"That's not good,"

"Is not," Doc sighs rubbing his head.

"Are you going to go back and risk EvilX's Wrath?" Scar asks as he flies back to the graphs monitoring the meteor.

"I'll give them a while together. If the meteor flares up I'll head back. I sent a message asking when I can come back, I have know idea when they're going to see it though," Doc says with a laugh. "How have you been holding up? Haven't gotten much of a chance to talk to you,"

At this Scar turns around and gives Doc a smile. "I've been ok, I forget that I'm this small sometimes. Cub thinks it's hilarious when I can't reach something,"

"Can you not fly all the time?" Doc asks with a raised eyebrow.

"Can you run all the time?"

"Fair enough," Doc answers shrugging his shoulders.

"If I don't have enough energy I can't fly," Scar explains.

The conversation lasted for about an hour until the meteor flared again.

"Crap," Doc hisses throwing himself down in the chair facing the screens frantically writing down data that might be useful.

"Doc! Your communicator is going off," Scar calls from the next room over.

"Who's it from?" Doc yells back.

"It's from X, Well technically EvilX. They want you to come back,"

"They finally got my message," Doc says as he throws on his equipment. "Tell them I'm coming,"

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