So, what have I been doing for the past month? 

Cry over anything family/found family related- 

It took me 10 months to finally realize how in love I am with anything to do with family. Even this book gives all the clues about my everlasting love for family-

Anyways, this chapter is a bit short. I mostly did this chapter for fun.  👏

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--Grian’s POV-- 

I was planning on helping Cleo and Wels with the daycare since I practically have nothing to do on the Hermitcraft server. I finally finished the back of the mansion! Woo! 

But that plan was long forgotten when I got a message from Zed. He said something about needing more redstone supplies and was very-or maybe too willing, to pay me a large sum of diamonds. It doesn't hurt to destroy my wallet by adding a few stacks of diamonds, right? 

So when I finally arrived at the cave of contraptions, I didn't expect the entrance to be blown up by some explosion, leaving a big hole to the cave. Smoke escaped the foggy cave as shadow figures of the redstoners ran around the cave, screaming about water buckets. 

"Ahhh! Grian! You got the redstone supplies!" Zed hastily pushed me inside his base, casually ignoring the mess on the floor. Redstone dust was scattered all over the place, creating what looks like a bloody crime scene. 

"I can see why you needed more redstone from me.." I mumbled. 

Beef emerged from the smoke, throwing the bucket tirelessly on the ground. "Stuff happened..Exploded all of our redstone supplies." He huffed. 

"Hmmm.." I took a glance around the ruined part of the cave. Indeed all the redstone was everywhere, but there were no signs of a failed or ruined contraption that could cause this much destruction to the cave. Tango's Infantes-something inator was still in one piece, which was fortunate...

"I GOT OUR TEST SUBJECT!!" Doc screamed from behind, strangling the baby zombie as he led the undead creature inside a wooden fence. He took the box of redstone from my hands before leading me closer to a smaller contraption they were working on. Each of them took one redstone piece and busied themselves over a certain circuit. 

I did not care much to understand what the heck they're doing, redstone was still all so Greek to me. However, I did take more interest with the machine that started this whole mess. It was already made clear that Tango is a mad genius, but at this point, 'genius' is just an understatement. He broke the limits of a person's redstone knowledge and did the impossible.. 

"Uhhm- G. If I were you, I wouldn't stand near that thing," Doc swiftly pulled me away from the machine before giving it a nervous glance. "Just in case.." 

We joined with the other two redstoners as they finally fixed up whatever circuit they just created. "Alright, let's try out Test 16. Push the lever Doc!" 

He did as he was instructed. A beam pointed at the poor baby zombie as it got shocked from the blinding beam. The speedy baby no longer was speedy. Instead it flopped on the floor, looked too tired to even drool on our brains as it crawled at a slower pace. 

"Oh shoot, we made it too old." Doc bent down to check the circuit again. 

"Too old?" I asked. "But the baby zombie looks the same?" 

"We made the zombie mentally old. Our machine can change its mental age, but we're not sure how to change its physical appearance though."

"Wai- you can change its mental age?!" I exclaimed. 

"Only last for 5 minutes though."

"How do you even know that it's mentally old? It's possible that you just made the poor thing slower."

Zed and Doc shared a cheeky grin to one another as Beef let out an exasperated groan. "We accidentally tested Beef on the machine and things were quite… interes-" 

"ANYWAYS!!.. "Beef cut off the other two," The point is that we found some way to age them to their previous mental age but temporarily. Zedaph I need the repeater please?"

Zedaph scoffed as he went back to get more redstone. 

Beef continued to glare at the two redstoners before turning his head back to me." I mean…. At least I got a taste of what old age will be for me.."

And none of you said anything about this incident?! 

I crossed my arms on my chest and leaned closer to the busy hermit. "Does your attempt to replicate Tango's invention involve TNT or anything explosive?"

Beef gives me a curious glance. "N-Not really? Why do you ask?" 

"Because of Zed's blown up entrance. If it wasn't your contraption who caused it, then what on earth happened to the entrance?" 

The three tensed up as they gave each other really reallyyy sus looks. 

"What? I'm the server's resident door thief! I can't do my job if you keep on destroying my loot!" 

"Hmmm, I don't know," Zedaph shrugged, "Some TNT contraption of mine was malfunctioning."

"Zed, you're trying to deceive a prankster. A prankster who loves his explosives. If this was a TNT accident, then the damage would be severely worse than this!.." I glanced at the redstoners, concerned. "What's going on?" 

The three went quiet.… Beef smirked as he eyed at the other two. "Well Zed, Doc, a hermit just asked. Shall we explain what happened?" 

The light blonde hermit sighed in defeat. "Alright Grian… Long story short, we accidentally turned on the Infantesimal inator.."

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"I'm sorry- wHAT-"

"ZED THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA TO TURN IT ON, RISKING ONE OF US TO TURN INTO KIDS!!" 

"BUT THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT IT FOR A SEC AND THOUGHT; "Hey! Maybe it's not a good idea!" PLUS YOU ALSO AGREED WITH ME BEEF!!"

" Yeah! Maybe I did agree with you! But Doc was the one who turned it on! "

" I DID NOT!! IN FACT, NO ONE DID TURN IT ON! IT WAS PROBABLY BECAUSE OF A SERVER GLITCH OR SOMETHIN-"

"Everyone!" I yelled, getting the attention of the redstoners. "So you're saying," I mumbled calmy, "That the machine thing turned on, messed up ⅓ of your base with the light beam, and might possibly hit one of the adult hermits of the server and turn them into kids?" 

The three nodded in unison. 

"And you planned to keep it a secret from the other hermits?" 

"Well…. " Doc paused as he stiffened from my soft glare….

"Secret or not, there are going to be some serious problems if one of the hermits really did get hit by the beam." Beef explains. "And Who knows, one of the hermits could be in the most bizarre of places. If they get turned into a child, they're going to seriously get in trouble… Minecraft is not exactly kind to us.." 

"Which is why we need to check on the hermits!" I exclaimed again, pumping my fist to exaggerate my emotions. 

"Alright.  Will follow where the beam went."

"It won't be too hard though…" Beef glanced at the mess of the cave, all pointing in a straight line. 

"Actually there's no need to do that," Zed said out loud, looking away from the communicator. "All the hermits are fine, they didn't get hit by the beam."

"How can you be so sure? " 

"Check chat."

I took the communication box from my inventory and checked the few extra messages that recently popped up. 

*<Hypnotizd>: Important meeting! Meet up at the daycare!*

*<Hypnotizd>: We are only missing Doc, Beef, Grian and Zed*

*<Zedaph>: Everyone is there?*

*<Zedaph>: Adult form? :0*

*<ZombieCleo>: Everyone but you four*

*<Hypnotizd>: HURRY*

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