Three pings rang out and Mumbo immediately took out the communicator from his pocket. Iskall glanced at his watch as a holographic screen projected along with Stress, who was using her own watch.

Each devices displaying the same message from the same person.

<Xisuma> I found Grian in The End

Iskall sighed out in relief and Stress grinned, clapping her hands gently. Mumbo began typing out a message, however Xisuma was faster. Or Mumbo's message was long, your pick.

<Xisuma> We'll be heading to the shopping district now and you guys should as well

Mumbo sighed and deleted his message, he could ask Grian face to face. Stress noted his behavior and went over to hug him.

Iskall took out a touch as the sky darkened, he turned around to find the sun setting. Knowing Bdubs, it should become day soon.

However, meetings between hermits were rare due to timezone differences so he doubts the sleep master would just waste any time.

"We should go to the nearest Nether portal," Iskall announced, he headed towards Mumbo's hobbit hole, next to his giant omega base.

Stress held Mumbo's hand and ran towards Iskall, with Mumbo easily keeping up with the woman.

They walked past the giant reverse, metallic legs coming out from the ground, into the doorframe, up the ladder and into the portal.

Running over the Nether roof and a purple flash later, they came out from the other side of the shopping district portal.

Mumbo immediately spotted Grian being embraced by Scar with Xisuma next to him trying to get him to let go of the player. Mumbo's hand slipped out of Stress's and he hopped off the platform and flew near him.

"Grian!" Mumbo cried out and ran towards his friend. The blonde acknowledged him by giving him a wave. "Hey Mumbo. Help me please."

"Oh no no no no no no no no!" Scar cried out and shook Grian around. "I'm not letting you go any time soon." Grian groaned loudly. "Xisuma!" He cried out for the admin, who looked like he had given up. "Help me!"

"Scar probably has a determination crystal, sorry."

Grian cried out and slumped into Scar's. The wizard smooched Grian's forehead and patted his head.

Mumbo decided that he wasn't gonna interrupt... whatever was happening. He glanced around and noticed certain hermits haven't arrived yet. Such as xB, Keralis etc, etc.

That explains why the meeting haven't started yet. He went back to Stress and Iskall, who were bonding with Joe and Cleo. Stress glanced up at Mumbo and grinned at him.

"Mumbow!" She cried out. She ran towards him and hugged him, knocking the mustache man back only slightly. Mumbo chuckled and hugged her back, resting his face into her hair.

Mumbo froze up once he heard the sound of a camera snapping a picture.

He turned around to find not Iskall, but Cleo holding up her personal phone with a smug grin.

After than, the hermits grouped up and converse with one another until the last hermit arrived, which happened to be the very lovable Zedaph. Though, the hermit did seemed a bit off, but honestly when wasn't he off?

Xisuma noted Zedaph's arrival immediately and gathered the hermits around.

"Okay, so I can safely say it's been a while since season seven started," Xisuma started off. He glanced towards Beef, Etho, Hypno and xB, all in their own or with their friends, then to Grian, who stood next to Scar. The wizard wasn't exactly holding him tight, however they were holding hands.

He was wondering if Scar happens to have a heat crystal, as Grian was unnaturally cold, especially after going through The End however, after going through the Nether, he might be a bit warmer to touch.

He stopped himself for thinking any further and told himself to focus on the meeting.

"So, Etho? Beef? Hypno? xB?" Xisuma called out and said men turned towards the admin. "I assume you already heard of Grian-" He glanced towards xB, Hypno and Etho. "-unless you were at the Head Games finale."

"Mhmm." "Of course." "Yup." "Definitely!"

He turned towards Grian, who stared at him with betrayed expression. "And Grian? You heard about them." He nodded his head and Xisuma frowned a bit.

Grian was normally more... talkative. When he's quiet, he's normally focusing on something really hard to the point of blocking out everything around him. And he certainly didn't block Xisuma out.

Again, getting off track...

Focus on the meeting.

"Well uh, now you guys know each other." Xisuma coughed into his arms as he felt awkwardness suffocated him. "Like, officially I suppose..."

Luckily Doc was very attached to Etho and Beef, even if he has beef with a certain hermit, totally not the one named Beef, I swear.

"It's great to have you guys back!" Doc yelled out and wrapped his arms around Beef and Etho's shoulders respectively. Etho giggled and leaned his head against the creeper hybrid's. "It's great to be back man!" Etho cried out, holding onto Doc's wrist with a wide grin. "...even though I don't remember being gone."

Grian glanced towards Scar when he felt the wizard tightened his grip on the dirty blonde's hand. He seemed... to be very nervous... though he couldn't find why. 

It feels like he knows something everyone else doesn't.

Before he could ask his friend what was wrong, Xisuma interrupted him causing Grian's attention to turn back to the admin and the ninja.

Although, it was still in the back of his mind.

"Etho, did you fall in the void?" Xisuma asked quite loudly, hints of anger and concern in his voice, though overpowered by the coldness in it. Etho narrowed his eyes and glanced to the sides, they glanced back to Xisuma and shrug. "Maybe?"

Xisuma sighed out and covered his face. Well mask, but you get the point.

Beef ignored the situation and just chuckled then he grinned and asked awkwardly, "How long have we been gone?" He glanced at Doc with a teasing look. "I swear you gotten taller since we last talked!"

Doc stammered out nonsense, causing Beef to roar with laughter and the hermits chuckled or grinned at Doc's reaction.

Bdubs grinned and pointed downwards. "Hey Beef, did you know that Doc's wearing heels? He didn't grow taller at all."

"BDUBS!"

Said man laughed out loud and ran to hide behind the closest hermit, which happens to be Ren.

"Wait dude—" Ren protested, holding onto Bdubs's hand, which was gripping onto his arm. "—Don't drag me into this–. Doc— You adopted me as your son remember—"

"Ren calm down, I'm holding him back," Beef reassured, holding back his laughter. He had an arm over Doc's neck in a headlock, another arm holding Doc's waist. If another was focusing on Doc's feet, he was off the ground with his heels barely touching the ground.

Bdubs giggled and let go of Ren. Then he walked towards Doc and leaned down then blooped him.

"I may have forgiven you, Bdubs, but the goat mother haven't," Doc threatened and narrowed his eyes at Bdubs. The threatened widened his eyes slightly and he took a step back.

Xisuma coughed in his arm loudly and everyone turned towards him. "You guys could tease Doc about his fashion sense later." He glanced at everyone around. "And maybe not in front of everyone else though."

"The heels look fabulous on me!" Doc cried out and gave Xisuma the finger to which the man rolled his eyes at.

"We're having this meeting so you could report anything unusual you seen, you guys can do anything after that," Xisuma explained simply and glanced around the hermits. He sighed out and closed his eyes. He opened his eyes and glanced up at the hermits.

"So... anything?"

"Uhh, yeah actually," Zedaph spoke out and stepped forward. His head low and around the ground, his eyes out of everyone's view.

Xisuma raised a brow at him and tilted his head.

"Well, what is it, Zedaph?"

"The thing I'm reporting isn't really about the server..." He glanced up to meet Xisuma's eyes. The admin frowned slightly. Zedaph's eyes was always bright and full of life, even though his eyes were still the same, it felt different, somehow...

"I've been hearing static randomly and sometimes I see a patches of black and red glitches."

Xisuma nodded his heads and took in the information, concern growing for his fellow hermit.

Suddenly, a hermit screamed out, "That's been happening to you too?!"

Xisuma turned to find that Grian cried that, his eyes were widened and he looked a little bit afraid. Zedaph glanced up with widened eyes as well.

"Yeah."

A cough rang out and everyone turned towards Mumbo. He glanced down and chuckled nervously. "I- also have been hearing static and seeing glitch patches."

"Dude really?" Iskall slightly yelled out. His hands with straight and all fingers pointing forwards, his expression showed that he was quite nervous. Mumbo nodded his head and glanced down to Iskall. Iskall's hands dropped to his sides and he glanced down. "That has- been happening to me as well..."

Doc glanced at Beef as he felt the man's grip on him loosened. His expression was a horrified one.

"Beef?"

"Is everything alright?" Xisuma asked, turning to the butcher with crossed arms. His eyes were wide and he was getting a bit freak out.

Beef glanced down and Doc patted his shoulder, Etho went over to give his fellow Canadian and side hugged him.

"I- also have heard– static and seen glitches..."

"Okay!" Xisuma yelled out and opened his arms out, his voice breaking slightly. He started to freak out and he glanced around the hermits. "If you heard static and seen glitch patches, raise your hand!"

He felt his heart dropped to stomach as everyone raised their arm, everyone but him, Joe, Tango and Doc, who both helped him to keep the server intact, which was quite suspension to him.

Bdubs turned to stare at Doc with a shock look. "Doc, you seriously haven't experienced that before?" Doc cocked an eyebrow at him. "No? Why do you ask..?"

"I... seen the glitch patches around you... like right behind you."

Scar widened his eyes and gripped onto Grian's hand tightened and glanced towards him. The cob turned towards him and frowned at him, his eyes asking him what was wrong. Scar hugged him and Grian patted his back.

Xisuma glanced around at everyone. "Okay, keep an eye out, everybody. I'll install something in the server area of your watch or communicator." He sighed and opened his palm. "Could those of you who use communicator please hang them to me?"

TFC, Joe, Keralis, False and Beef stepped forwards, handing in their communicators. Beef still carrying Doc in his arm. Mumbo stepped forward as well and reached into his pocket to pull out his communicator.

He widened his eyes as he felt nothing.

"Mumbow? Is everything alright?"

He sucked in a breathe and admitted shamefully, "I- I lost my communicator..."

"It's alright," Xisuma reassured. He used his watch and projected a holographic screen and immediately began searching for Mumbo's communicator. "I can just find it. In case you forgot Mumbo, there's a tracker in any communication device used in this server."

Mumbo grinned and laughed out nervously. "S- Sorry for the inconvenience, Xisuma." "It's alright Mumbo." He glanced up at everyone. "You are all dismissed now, Tango stay behind, I might need some help."

Zedaph waved at Tango with a grin and then he flew back to his base.

As soon as he was inside, static rang out and Zedaph widened his eyes, screams coming out from his mouth. Patches of red and black glitches came out from his mouth and eyes.

"How did it go?"

Zedaph's body hit the ground, unconscious and barely breathing.

"Xisuma's aware of my glitching and static now."

An innocent sounding chuckle rang out.

There was a roll of eyes as another voice, slightly glitched out, spoke up.

"Did you get anyone else?"

"Nope, but I heard Mumbo's communicator disappeared."

He held out the communicator in his hand.

"I disabled the tracker, if that's what you were wondering."

A grin formed onto the glitch's face.

"Now we have eyes on the server chat."

"And dm's between hermits."

They scrolled through the dm's between each friend on projection screens.

"Remember, keep Grian out of everything."

Red eyes met up with blue eyes.

"I promise, I'll try to keep him out of everything."

"You better!"

A pair of ruby eyes landed onto the duo.

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They glitched out and the strawberry blonde ran towards the hologram.

"Calm down! You're short circuiting. You need to save up battery if you want to see Grian again."

They sighed out and closed their eyes.

"I'm shutting off. If- if- if anything important happens, turn me on."

The hologram shut down and silence washed over the man made cave.