MCYT RANDOMNESS 2

Wake up

I have so many oneshots just itching to be free of my mind.

This is one of them.

Pov: Cub

Everything is bright. 

I squint, barely opening my eyes, not knowing where I am. Where was I before? What happened? A dark splodge appears in my vision, some silhouette I think is a person.

'H- hello?' My throat hurts as I speak. The silhouette holds out what must be their hand. Why? 

I'm in a hole.

'How did I...' 

But I already know. 

Something possessed me. But that's not the part that sends cold right down my back into the pit of my stomach. It's the knowledge that it wasn't the Vex.

Something ELSE possessed me.

'Here. You should... get out of there,' the silhouette, Pix I realise, says. I take his hand, letting him pull me from this hole I've ended up in. My head explodes with pain, my vision blacks for a moment, but Pix keeps me balanced.

'It's alright. You're back to normal now.' Another voice. Shubble. 'Hopefully.' I've got no time to ask the millions of questions in my mind before Pix is asking me one.

'What... do you think about sculk? The block sculk?'

'I... it's fine?' Sculk. This is something to do with sculk. I glance around, past Pix still helping me stand, barely recognising the place I'm next to. Hermitopia. My back prickles as I see it's covered in sculk. 'I- I need to lie down. Is there a bed somewhere?'

'Of course, of course.' He leads me towards the ruined building. 

'How long has it been?' It's the last question I want to ask. 'What did I do?'

'It's a few weeks most... don't worry about the sculk. We're handling it.'

What.

My head spins even more. I feel my heartbeat, loud in my chest, my steps slowing.

'Cub, it's ok. You're alright now. That's all that matters,' Pix tries to comfort me, worry cutting through his calmness. 'Here, there's a bed here... I'll- I'll get you whatever you need... It's ok.' I can't reply. I've been possessed for WEEKS. How much have I done? How much of the sculk did I spread? Pix tries to help me sit, calling for help. 

It's the last I hear before the world goes black.

A dark forest.

Fog rising.

Dead trees, twisting vines. Black vines, moving. 

A flickering lantern. Dark. Light. Dark. Light again. 

I'm turned around, all turned around. 

Fog choking.

I walk quicker. Quicker. Even Quicker and-

Fall.

Twisting vines. Clinging to my legs. 

It creeps closer. And closer. And closer and darker and whispering and laughing and darker and I can't move and it's closer and closer and-

I wake up.

I tear off the blankets trapping me, scrambling up, gasping for breath. The nightmare doesn't fade. But it's not a nightmare. It's a memory.

'Hey, hey, hey it's alright.' Scar, next to my bed, hands on my shoulders. Calming me, though terror fills his eyes. 'You're ok.'

'Scar what-'

'You're ok. Deep breaths.'

'What happened?' I speak over him. He falls silent.

'You...' A glance into my eyes and he decides against lying 'The sculk took over your mind. Like they always did. But Pix, Shubble, and False and Joe... they saved you.' Scar sweeps hair off my face, ignoring how messy it must me. But all of me is a mess. My shirt's torn, tie loose, I'm not even wearing my labcoat, but I see it next to the bed, grabbing it. I need something familiar. Just putting it on I feel slightly better, breathing slowed to normal, calming.

'How much did I do?' My mind goes back to the enormous pranks from Season 5. I know Scar's does the same. 

'It's... different.'

'Different?' Scar's not looking at me. 'How different?'

'It's... just... don't worry about it. It's fine... Pix is happy to sort it, the Emperors will forgive...'

'Scar.' He falls silent at my tone. 'What did I do?'

'The Sculk made you hide sculk catalysts one block under the ground. In everyone's base. I don't know exact numbers.'

I don't speak. I can't speak. Instead I just start crying. Scar hugs me immediately. 

'It'll be alright, Cub. Pix knows how to find the catalysts, the Emperors will understand... you know the other hermits will as well. I promise.' But I can't stop crying. 'And if they don't, I'll make sure they do. Ok?' 

I can't reply, just sobbing as the truth sinks in. And Scar keeps hugging me, comforting me, for as long as I do.

The next few days I stay resting in Hermitopia, mainly under Scar's command. But he sees me getting agitated. He probably knows I've stopped sleeping and lets me leave. I still take it easy, and I'm not prepared to see the extent of my damage, so I take a boat along the river. It'll lead to the sea where I can swim, or fly from there. But I don't know the geography of the world, coming across a huge, colourful town instead.

Covered in sculk.

I stop, staring at the destruction, the hours of work it'll take to rebuild. I did this. I caused this.

I have to do something. All I know as I sail to the shore is that I have to do something... There's a shovel in my inventory, enough to start digging up the dark tendrils. I don't care how much the memories return as I touch it, pulling it up.

'Hey, HEY! SIR!'

I turn, seeing one of the emperors, a pirate, with Sausage and his small child following behind. 

'Yeah?'

'Hey Cub!' Sausage beams. 'Are you feeling better now? Pix said you went evil and started spreading the nasty sculk everywhere... isn't that right Joey?'

There's nowhere to back away as Joey's expression turns to ice. 

'What?'

'I...'

'And now you're back spreading it even more.'

'I'm clearing it up!' I insist, dropping the sculk in my hands. 'I was possessed!'

'Excuse me?! You- how DARE you, SIR. Pretending you've been possessed?'

'I'm not pretending!'

'In front of ME AND SAUSAGE? Do you even KNOW what happened with Xornoth?'

'I was possessed,' I repeat. 'I know I was possessed. Pix, and Shubble, and Scar... they can confirm.'

'You're LYING!' Joey shoves me. My mind turns to fight or flight. 

'Is... is it just me, or is the sculk moving over there?' I point randomly. The moment they turn I make a break for it. I don't care where. I don't know where. I just have to get away.

'HEY!' Joey yells, chasing after. I weave through the maze of streets, hoping to lose him and Sausage... a dead end ahead. I grab fireworks and-

I don't fly.

I DON'T FLY.

I try again to summon the Vex wings that I've used for years. Nothing happens. My magic isn't working.

And as Joey appears, I know.

I'm trapped.