Grian Oneshots

𓅪 Pesky bird 𓅪

A/N
Grian is a parrot hybrid, and was experimented on by H.E.L (Hybrid Experiment Laboratory)

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Grian starts to stir and his groggy eyes open. He looks around the room he's in while sitting up, blank walls and tiled floors surround him and most of the hermits, as far as he can see, it's all the hybrids meaning Bdubs, False, Keralis and Joe are missing. The last thing he remembers is a server meeting, a mysterious portal and an unknown gas knocking them all unconscious.

Grian scans the room once more and his blood runs cold as he realizes where they are: H.E.L. the Hybrid Experiment labs, this was where he became whatever he was - parrot, but not just a parrot, he could talk to parrots, control them or transform himself into a parrot.

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"Uggghh, my head" Doc groaned as he sat up, the first one - besides Grian - to wake up. "Where are we?" The creeper asked and Grian shrugged. "In a lab", he scooted closer the hermit as he knew the trauma he had with experiments. "You'll be fine Doc, I promise" The parrot said as he laid a calming hand on Docs shoulder.
Xisuma was the next to wake up, "What happened? And where is my mask?"
"I think whoever kidnapped us took it"

One after the other the rest of the hermits woke up and soon X spoke up. "Alright everyone, I think I know where we are! We are in H.E.L., a place where they experiment with hybrids - often in the form of torture, I'm lucky to only have heard about it and not have been here myself," he took a pause to look around at the scared hermits, "Does anyone have some sort of plan?"
"Well since we're hybrids, can't we just beat them?" Tango suggested.
"No, every cell blocks any sort of magic - except body transformation - and when they come to take you they put a power-blocking collar on you." The parrot replied and hermits went silent, their eyes focused on him.

"How do you know that?" Xisuma finally asked the question everyone had been thinking of. Grian sighed. "This isn't the first time I've been here."
The room was so silent that the faint footsteps from a few hallways away could be heard and the parrot chose this time to focus his hearing on the hallway, no footsteps was nearing them but no doubt that a 'scientist' soon would come to check on them and the first experiments would begin, and then it would be harder to escape.

"We need to escape before they come and begin the experiments on us, then it will probably be too late" The blonde looked around, this time his eyes landing on a small vent in the corner, if he transformed into a parrot he could maybe fit through it and escape that way, then returning to release the others.

"Can anyone unscrew that vent cover?"
He asked and Doc nodded, "I can if I have something or someone to stand on, why?"
"I think we can use it to escape"
"How? It's way to small to fit us"
"Don't think I was experimented on without gaining some perks" Grian winked and he went to Scar who volunteered to give Doc a hand.
Doc used a screwdriver - hidden in his metal arm's hand for convenience - to unscrew the cover, standing on Scar's and Grian's hands.
With a loud clang the vent cover fell to the ground and Doc jumped down.
"Now what Grian? What's your plan?"
"Wait here" Grian said, starting his transformation. His body seemed as if it was buckling in on itself, twisting in unnatural ways as if breaking every bone. His parrot wings engulfed him an shrunk until a parrot was on the ground instead of the hermit.

The parrot took off and flew through the vent, leaving behind the hermits.
"Did you know he could do that?" A shocked Doc asked the equally shocked Scar. "No, but if he got that ability from here it makes sense he never told us."
"You're right. I don't even want to imagine what kind of torture he went through."

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Magic surged through the parrot as he left the power blocking cell. A purple blast of magic sent the vent cover on the other side to the ground with a loud clang. He jumped down, his body transforming yet again. He landed on his feet and listened for the sound of hasty footsteps.

He deemed there to be two men running towards him, a Watcher sword formed in his hands and he readied his magic, his fingertips tickling with power. The men turned around the corner of the corridor, but before they could yell or sound the alarm, Grian was over them and soon their lifeless bodies fell to the crimson-stained white tiles.
"Well, now I am here I better kill them all" He thought to himself as he wiped blood-splatter on his cheek away with the palm of his hand.
Watcher eyes opened all around him as he looked around for the rest of his prey. He found them quickly and with a vengeful smile, he began the hunt.

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"Where is Grian, it's been longer than it should to take to open this door and let us out" Scar asked, worried, while Doc scoffed. "He probably got scared and flew away like the little birdie he is"
"Doc! It could be that he got captured!" Tango intervened but Impulse shook his head, "no, if he got caught an alarm would probably have sounded"
"Oh, well then I'm out of explanations"
"I'm telling you, the bird got scared because of his history here and ditched us!" Doc groaned, he had been left alone in a lab before by a person he called a friend, he didn't really believe Grian would leave them behind, didn't want to believe, but he was afraid of getting abandoned again and let his fears speak for him.

An electric whirring could be heard from the corner and the door opened to their cell. Heads whipped around to face whoever would enter, their beloved pesky bird or a twisted scientist coming to torture them?
Footsteps dragged inside, and the hermits were met with a familiar face and a smile.
"Grian, what took so long?" Doc hissed in a mix of anger and relief.
"Oh sorry, I had to take care of something," Grian rubbed his cheek where the blood had previously been, "come on let's go home."

The hermits left with Grian, Doc and Xisuma in the front, the rest following suit.
"Something's wrong" Doc whispered to his admin who nodded in agreement.
"You're right, it's way too quiet here, not even a single pair of footsteps in the distance"
The group turned around the corner and stopped when they saw the countless scientists laying lifeless, their blood pooling under them and staining the pristine white floors.. "W-what happened here?" Doc asked and Grian shrugged beside him. "I told you I had to take care of something"
"YOU did this!?"
"Of course, I couldn't let them harm anyone else" The blonde clenched his fists. The hermits continued their walk towards the exit, Doc and X looked at the dead bodies, "He was gone for way too little time to do all this" Doc whispered and X nodded in agreement.
"Some of these are also killed by magic, a parrot shouldn't have magic like this"

Right behind them Grian froze, then sighed, "You know I can hear you, right?" He asked and the older men stopped and looked at him, "then what are you, Grian"
"I'm a parrot, but I'm also a Watcher, I was taken against my will and tortured there as well, I escaped as soon as possible" He told, there was no point in hiding the truth from them anymore, they would discover it sooner or later. A pained chuckle escaped his throat. "Heh, sometimes it feels like my life have been nothing but torture"
Expressions of horror appeared on the faces of the hermits close enough to hear him as the blonde shrugged it off and smiled at the hermits. "Well, let's get us home, huh?"

~1375 words