(T/W for a description of gore and injuries ahead, sorry bout that)

POV: Xisuma

Location: ???

"After that episode you let me have all by myself, someone found me," EX revealed, his gaze still set on his helmet.

"Who?" I asked, encouraging him slightly to talk.

He sighed, his head hanging and his limbs drooping. "I'm not supposed to tell you," he said, his voice choking slightly.

My eyes widened as I noticed tears dripping down onto his helmet from within his mess of white hair. "EX..." I said, my own voice choking a bit.

He sighed. "I wish I could be something other than 'Evil Xisuma.' I know that's pretty much who I am but at this point, I think I'd rather be my own person," he revealed, his semi-deep voice softening as he revealed his wish.

I furrowed my eyebrows. "We could call you EX but have it stand for something else," I suggested.

He turned his gaze to me, his softly glowing red eyes filled with tears. "Like what?" he asked, sounding as if he didn't believe we could do that.

I paused to think. "How about the X stand for another name?" I suggested.

Hope flared in his red eyes. "Like what?" he repeated however with more optimism in his voice this time.

"There's a lot of names that start with x. Like, Xander, Xisuma, duh," I paused to laugh at my own dumbness. "Xavier, Xeno, Xanthus," I continued.

He straightened as he heard a name.

I blinked, curious what had happened. "What?"

His mouth gaped open slightly for a second before he found himself and closed it. He leaned back in his chair, his thoughts seeming to run very fast.

"Xanthus sounds interesting," he finally said.

I smiled. "Now for the E," I said.

"It needs to sound cool," he reminded.

I smiled. "Of course," I said before beginning to think.

A name popped into my head. The meaning was a bit off but maybe it would encourage EX to be nice again. "How about Evander?" I suggested, a smile growing on my face.

He smiled a bit. "Evander Xanthus," he said. His smile grew. "I like it," he said, his gaze on me again.

I suddenly noticed that his scleras were a bit more gray rather than black as if giving him his own name brought him back a bit. To combat my sudden lapse of reaction, I smiled back.

"Nice to meet you, Evander Xanthus," I said with a grin.

As he was grinning back, the grin turned into a grimace as he shut his eyes tightly and placed his head in his hands, his helmet dropping to the floor with a clang.

I blew a stray piece of brown hair out of my eyes as my grin faded. "Evander?" I called, worry sprouting inside of me.

I silently gasped as he suddenly looked at me, his eyes glowing neon green rather than their former red. His scleras had returned fully to black and framed the green perfectly. Eyes wide, I tried to struggle to get out but my attempts were in vain.

He slowly stood, his entire personality changed in a matter of seconds. "Little Xisuma Void, did you really think that giving EX a name would change anything? Hermitcraft will still fall, as it should have done a long time ago." The words came from EX's mouth but the voice was extremely off. It was much deeper and more sure of itself compared to EX's normal voice.

"Who are you?" I demanded, still trying to get out of the bindings.

He threw his head back and laughed. "As if I'd tell you," he continued, taking a few steps toward me.

I struggled harder before an idea popped in my head. I'm an admin, I remembered, realizing how dumb I was for not thinking of it sooner.

I focused my gaze back on EX, noticing how angry he looked.

I gritted my teeth and let out a small blast of admin energy(saying "admin magic" sounds weird). The bindings fell away, torn in two different pieces, leaving me free. I sat up, jumping onto the ground on the opposite side of the bed than EX.

He growled as I got myself free. "You're starting to become a pain," he said through gritted teeth. He raised a hand and snapped his fingers together.

I let out a yell of agony as pain suddenly appeared throughout my body.

As I stumbled to my knees, I held onto the bed and looked up at EX with gritted teeth.

He placed his hands behind his back, his head tilted slightly. "You know," he began. "I thought you'd be a bit stronger."

I growled, attempting to raise a hand to face EX. In one final act of desperation, I sent a blast of light purple admin energy at my doppelganger, hoping it would get this weird person out of his head.

I turned out to be right. However, the sudden use of energy left me extremely weak and I collapsed backward onto the floor.

Evander gasped as his eyes returned to red and gray. He keeled over slightly, coughs racking his body.

I managed to raise my head enough to watch him, fearful of the return of his master.

The coughing subsided from Evander's body and he slowly lifted his head to look at me, his hands placed firmly on his armored knees.

His eyes widened as he saw what had happened to me.

He raced around the bed over to me, kneeling down with worry and terror in his eyes. "Xisuma, don't die... Please don't die," he pleaded, placing his gloved hands under my head and neck and lifting it up a bit, leaving me confused as to why.

Then, I looked down at my body. My eyes widened as I saw what was wrong. Blood oozed out from in between some of the plates of green armor on my body, as well as from a cut on my arm.

However, that wasn't the worst of it. I noticed some green and light purple marks covering my showing skin and expected some of that to be on my face as well.

Suddenly, I noticed Evander's x-shaped scar begin to glow green. A flash of light from in between my eyes showed that mine was glowing as well.

We looked at each other, bewilderment in our eyes.

The door where I had first seen EX opened with a woosh. We both looked over and were frozen in shock.

A tall figure stood in the doorway. It was there but it had no color except for the glowing green eyes on his face.

Evander's mouth gaped open for a second and I'm sure I would've as well had I not been in total pain.

"Master!" Evander gasped, his voice strangely sounding like he was praising the figure.

He dropped my head suddenly and dashed over to kneel in front of the figure. I let out a small grunt as more pain sprung up in the back of my head.

Taking a breath, I pushed myself to my knees before grabbing onto the bed and pulling myself almost all the way up. I figured I looked a mess because of my slightly unkempt brown hair and all the wounds on my body.

"Who are you?" I managed to gasp.

The figure's gaze snapped toward me at the same time as EX's gaze did. I met EX's suddenly green gaze then looked back at the figure.

"Why should I tell you?" the figure said mockingly, however his body showed no sign of being the source of the voice.

I blinked rapidly and irregularly, trying to fight back the urge to fall unconscious.

"You may at least tell me, seeing as I'm not going to be able to tell anyone about it," I managed to say with short pauses to gasp in pain.

"Fine." In a flash, he appeared right next to the bed, frightening me into almost falling. However, his void of a hand grabbed onto my throat and kept me up. "I'm your worst nightmare," was all he said before black engulfed my vision and the pain disappeared as I fell unconscious.

(about 1304 words)

(A/N this is fun :3)

(it's now 6:31 AM and I'm running on zero sleep. should be fun :D)

(Edit: It's now 8:55 PM and I am running on sleep so yee XD)