Mumbo - HEP Team Chat: MCR MEETING ETA 10MINS

Cub - HEP Team Chat: Roger that. HEP meeting eta 5mins.

Tango - HEP Team Chat: I'll bring my presentation on the thing Cub saw me building, too.

Soon, HEP had gathered in their HQ, everyone perched on their seats. Scar and BDubs smelled faintly of gunpowder, and all showed signs of being repeatedly whacked in the face with lanterns. Nobody really questioned it, however. There was probably a reasonable explanation, and there were more pressing issues.

"Tango!" Keralis beamed, as Tango flew in, a bit later than the others. "Good to see your lovely face back here!" Tango quietly, nervously waved back as he took his seat.

"Right. Let's get down to business." He reached into his lab coat pocket for the remote for the screen, only to find nothing but an old broken spring, probably from a pen, and some lint, items which are basically ubiquitous in every pocket to ever exist. He chuckled nervously, and reached under his spot at the table for the spare. Nothing but a splinter. 

"Uh oh." He muttered. "I seem to have lost..." he gestured vaguely.

And with that, the search was on. No stone was left unturned bu the various HEP members, no shelf was let unsearched, no flowerpot unlifted. It went on and in, until out of the corner of his eye, Tango spotted the Resistance members all flying away from the same spot in the district, in a spawn-wards direction. Right. That meant it was time to put the next stage of the plan into action.

"I found them." Tango spoke up, revealing both the remotes, holding them he would like a fan of cards.

"Great!" Scar smiled. "Care to give them-"

"No." Tango denied, putting them back in his inventory. "Not yet. Possibly not ever. See, after you hijacked Impy, I went and had a little think to myself, about which side I'm really on. Don't get me wrong! I don't like the stinky purple dirt, not at all, but... well. I care about Impy, no matter what, and this has gone too far. I even said it myself: I don't like being used against my will to hurt my friends." He chuckled drily. "What I'm saying, anyway, is that this is my inevitable betrayal. Have fun!"

With that, he turned on his heel, slammed his hand on the button to trigger his trap, and, as the hiss of TNT filled the room, flared his elytra and got the heck outta dodge. He turned only once, to permanently paint in his mind the looks on the other HEP members' faces, then gave a mocking salute and flew towards spawn.

The explosion of the HEP tower echoed across the server, the shockwave sending Tango veering off towards Big Logz Inc. and echoing through the ground, so that it even shook the spawn area where the resistance waited. The sound could be heard be heard across the ocean, echoing through the strange acoustics of the Cave of Contraptions, and causing Iskall to look around, confused, as they worked on their Omega tree.

Goodtimewithscar was blown up by Tango

Cubfan135 was blown up by Tango

BDoubleO100 was blown up by Tango

Keralis1 was blown up by Tango

Falsesymmetry was blown up by Tango

Xisuma was blown up by Tango

When each of them respawned, however, they found themselves not in their beds, but at the worldspawn. In other words, someone - probably Tango - had messed with spawning. Thankfully, none of them had much time to think about it before they fell into X's spawn hub, and found themselves surrounded by members of the Resistance.

"Mayor Scar." Etho declared, while Grain pointed his sword at HEP, daring them to make a move. "You are relieved of duty, and you and your supporters are under arrest, for war crimes committed against one ImpulseSV."

Ooof.

Anyway, if you want to stop reading this AU here, you can. Right here, on this author's note, is where the primary timeline can come to a conclusion, even if some questions have been left unanswered. You can just assume that HEP are meaner in this AU and be done with it.

I've been Entropy, peace out from the present!

Or you can read on for a better explanation.

Tango gave a little round of applause for the speech as he flew in, only to have xB turn on him, drawing back his bow, and-

Tango woke up with a sharp gasp, sitting bolt upright.

Tango froze, and was only saved from the arrow as Impulse caught it mid-air.