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EvilX wasn’t having a good day, he had fallen out of a weird squashed stone turtle thing, he had started to run towards Xisuma’s towers mumbling under his breath about the stone turtle. When his own brother had thrown him into the void saying he’d deal with him later.
He never did, so E.X was left to himself. Weeks past and then months, until E.X decided to take matters into his own hands. He would possess Xisuma, just to try and remind him, that he was still here, waiting. From his spot in the void he could see most of what was happening in the overworld, and he knew that Xisuma wasn’t being mean and letting him suffer, he had just forgotten that he had sentenced EvilX to the void.
As Ex prepared to take control of Xisuma his view of the world suddenly went dark. The last thing he saw was a meteor with red sparks heading towards his brother and. some of his friends. His preparations stopped, as the meteor seemed to be extremely magical stopping his own magic from reaching Xisuma and he would be unable to possess Xisuma without seeing him. So he remands in the void silent waiting, he was able to put himself into a sort of stasis. By changing a few settings on his helmet he slipped into a deep slumber.
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“Xisuma, please wake up,” Doc says as he leans over the unconscious form obscured by blankets. He was supposed to watch Xisuma while Jevin and Stress made more healing potions. They had been taking turns watching the unconscious admin, hoping that he would wake up.
This had started last week when Xisuma had been affected by the meteor, it was nighttime and Xisuma wasn’t in a spot where he could sleep. After a few minutes of dodging mobs, Xisuma tripped and falls to the ground zombies converged on him when suddenly it was day. It was midday at that the zombies around him started to catch on fire and burn to death. His communicator started going off as people were wondering what had happened.
Falsesymmetry: X, did you do that?
Docm77: Yeah What was that about.
Xisuma: I’m not sure, I was getting attacked by zombies and was surrounded by them. I just wanted it to be day and it was.
Grian: Try to make it rain.
Xisuma: Ok
A few minutes later rain starts falling from the sky.
MumboJumbo: Is this the meteor?
Docm77: I think so. Xisuma meet me at the stock exchange. Also, can you make it stop raining it’s going to fry my circuits.
Iskall85: You haven’t done waterproofing in a while have you.
Xisuma: Got it.
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“So Doc, what do you think?” Xisuma asks after Doc finished doing an examination.
“It looks like that’s it, you can get commands without a block. If you notice anything else please tell me,”
“Only if you tell me what’s going on with you, you’ve been hissing under your breath a lot more than usual and your quills keep popping up,” Xisuma says with a kind smile though you can’t really tell with the helmet on.
“Is nothing, I’ve just been stressed out a lot and that’s how creepers show stress its the same with my quills,” Doc says, looking into Xisuma’s eyes.
“Alright, I believe you. How is Ren doing?,” Xisuma says shifting the conversation.
“He’s doing ok, there was a thunderstorm a few days ago and he completely flipped out False had to call me to get him out from under his bed,” Doc answers fully aware of what Xisuma was doing. “Why don’t you go home and call me if something else happens,”
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It was three days later when Doc awoke to his communicator frantically beeping. After reading the messages he scoops up his stuff into shulker boxes and flies as fast as he can to Xisuma’s base.
When he gets there he throws open the door and rushes over to his friend who had sharp spikes growing from his back. Doc frantically calls for healing potions Jevin and Stress reply saying that they can bring some in and help.
“Xisuma, are you awake!” Doc asks as he picks him up off the ground and sets him onto a bed.
“I’m awake,” Xisuma mumbles.
“Can you tell me what happened?”
“I woke up started to get my stuff ready then my back exploded in pain I think I blacked out for a second, and I had these Spikes,” When saying this Xisuma looks Doc in the eyes.
“Xisuma, does your helmet have a visor?”
“Yes, that’s why it’s so dark in here, I can open it up but-”
“Open it,”
“What?”
“You heard me,” Xisuma does what Doc told him to do and opens the helmet's visor. Doc sharply inhales, “That’s not good,”
“Did something happen to my eyes?” Xisuma asks squinting as though he was looking at something bright.
“Do you need the visor down?” Xisuma nods and slides the visor back into place. “You’re eyes are a solid green no whites or pupils,”
“Oh, my, that’s not good,”
“No it’s not, does anything else hurt?”
“My lower back down hurts, my hands hurt, top of my head and the lower half of my face,”
“I’m going off of what happened to Ren here, but Those are the places that might get changed,” Doc says giving Xisuma a hand up, “the holes in your armor can be fixed, but if you progress badly it’ll cause problems.”
“You want to know if I can change into something else,” Doc sheepishly nods. “Well good for you the answer is yes.”
While Xisuma went elsewhere in his base to change clothes. Doc calls Scar and asks him to check the meteor.
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“Doc, we brought the potions you asked for,” Stress says as she and Jevin walk into Xisuma’s base.
“Thank you,”
“So, what’s happening with X,” Jevin asks.
As Doc explains Stress pales considerably and Jevin starts melting into the floor. A few minutes later Xisuma walks back into the room and instead of his normal green armor, he was wearing a black t-shirt and sweatpants. Stress hands him one of the healing potions, which he gratefully accepts. He very carefully opens a small port in his helmet and quickly drinks the potion.
“How are ya feeling Xisuma?” Stress asks after the helmet was resealed.
“I’m feeling much better now, thank you,” Xisuma says to Stress before turning to Doc and asking. “The top of my head went numb while I was changing,”
“That doesn’t sound good,” Jevin says as he pops back to his normal height.
“Doc, Stress, Jevin. I should tell you the reason for my helmet,” Xisuma sits down on his bed causing his new spikes to stand up. Doc takes note of this and writes it down in his notebook. “My helmet helps me breathe, I’m not from the overworld, like the rest of you. I’m from the End, the air there is much thinner there and the air here is to thick for me to inhale properly,”
“I thought so,” Doc says walking over to Xisuma, “Can you stand up for me?”
“Ok?” Xisuma says as he stands up. When he stood up his spikes lay flat against his back.
“Ok now sit back down,” Xisuma sits and the spikes extend.
“Doc? Can I ask him something?” Jevin asks mouthing sorry to Xisuma.
“Sure, If X is ok with it,” Doc says poking at his own quills that had opened and had ripped his Lab coat in another spot.
“I’m fine with that,” Xisuma confirms.
“So, um, Doc you have quills and X now has spikes that behave similarly to creeper quills. X, can you stand up and bring one of your knees to your chest?” Jevin asks, Xisuma does what Jevin asked him to and the spikes open. “Doc, if you consciously open your quills what do you do?”
“I have to move my arms a specific way,” Doc says catching onto what Jevin was saying. “Xisuma try lying down,”
Xisuma did just that he walked over to his bed and he laid down.
“And can you sit back- Xisuma. Xisuma, what’s wrong?” Doc asks his friend who was clutching at his head.
Before Xisuma could say anything he screams then passed out. A loud beeping was coming from Xisuma’s helmet, then a shulker box full of medical supplies is shot out from a hole in the wall. A small light on the helmet starts flashing.
“I don’t think the helmets working anymore,” Stress says as Jevin grabs a bundle out of the Box handing it to Doc.
“Stress, your right Doc gasps, look at his head,” As they look Doc opens the bundle and starts setting up the Oxygen Machine that was in it. “Jevin, Stress get his helmet off!”
“Got it,” Stress says as she fumbles with a small switch that released the helmet. She sits back and lets out a small scream.
“What is it?” Jevin asks looking where she was pointing, “Um, Doc, you should come and see this,”
The area around Xisuma’s face was rapidly changing. His mouth seemed to split growing a few inches wider, leaving small tendon-like things exposed. There where small tusks jutting out from above his canines which were getting sharper by the second, in fact, all his teeth were sharp now. His temples had swollen and were a bright angry red. His eyes which Doc knew were a solid green were being pushed further apart. His ears had turned into points and stretched outward.
“I’m sorry I screamed, it’s just the first time I’ve seen him without the helmet and he’s looking like this,” Stress mournfully says as Jevin gently pulls her back so Doc Could strap the breathing mask to Xisuma’s face.
“Can you two go and get more potions?” Doc asks as he makes sure that Xisuma was breathing.
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“Xisuma, please wake up,” Doc pleads, “Your the only one who can fix your helmet,”
“No? His brother has one just like it,” Jevin points out as he brings a shulker box full of potions into the room setting it down by Xisuma’s bed.
“You’re right, do you mind staying with him while I try to find E.X,”
“Go,”
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The void was a silent place so when EvilX was pulled out suddenly he was confused and in pain. “Who did that! I’ll blow you up!” EvilX yells stumbling around blinded from the sun. The loud hiss of a creeper Shocks him causing him to stumble backward into someone.
“Hey, watch- can you not see?” A kind voice asks then turns scolding “Doc, I told you to use the longer version,”
“Sorry, I didn’t think he was in the void,” The half creeper’s voice defended.
“He can hear you know, now what do you want, and who are you?” EvilX asks with less bite in his voice than before. By this point, he could see again with no problem.
“I’m Grian, and that’s Doc, he said I owed him a favor and took me with him to summon you, and I don’t know-”
“We summoned you because something is very wrong with Xisuma,” Doc cuts Grian off and explains what had happened to Xisuma and EvilX grabs both Doc and Grian by the hand and teleports them to where Xisuma lay.
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