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Redstone mastermind unveiled (HC, ft. Mumbo, Grian & Xisuma)

Or: A sleep deprived Grian helps a sleep deprived Mumbo and it get's revealed that he knows Redsone.

(tw: Overworking yourself/hyperfocus, Unhealthy habits, Angst)

Mumbo bit back a curse as the invention exploded, again. He had been trying to make a self-running xp machine but it didn't seem to work. He didn't go to bed, it was 6am at the moment. He didn't get any sleep. But the darn thing just wouldn't work! Rubbing his eyes he sat down on the ground, cursing the deity that gave him such bad luck.

And he sat there, for what felt like hours. From 6, to 7 and onto 8. Sitting there for hours on end. He was so tired, his brain was mushy from all the work it had to do... He was feeling like an overworked person that could be a necromance judging from their looks (See what I did there?).

"Mumbo!" Grian's voice shook him out of his stupor. What time was it? Looking down on his watch he did a double take 8.15 already?! He could swear he had just sat down! Wait, why was Grian at his base again? Oh, the breakfast they planned to have together... He needed to do something to make himself look at least presentable, fast. But before he had time, Grian stumbled into his redstone room, looking like he just walked through a storm. His hair was messy, his wings were a mess and he looked very tired and sleep deprived.

"Hi Grian..." Mumbo said, from his sitting position on the floor. He was so tired. "Good morning, how did you sleep?"

"I slept well!" Grian quipped, but judging on his looks... He was so lying! "Anyway. Why are you on the floor and is there an unfinished redstone project on the workbench?"

How was he gonna explain this? He had absolutely no idea how he could explain the problem to the guy that claimed to be the worst at redstone and didn't even know basic theory. "Umm, I can't get the machine to work. I've been trying to make a small xp farm but it didn't work. I can't find out if it's the comparators or the wiring, or even the coding itself."

Grian walked over to the workbench and started to do something with the invention, a thing that gave Mumbo the shivers. "What are you doing? Why, how, what?!"

After around 2 minutes he stepped back from the bench. "It should work now, and if it doesn't try playing with the tickspeed of the comparators. That should fix everything. I also added a function that will let you shrink it even more, to an earring."

Was this the guy that claimed he knew nothing about redstone?! This was the guy that didn't even answer the simplest questions right. Okay, he was definitely dealing with some weird clone or something because no way Grian was actually good at redstone.

"Grian, buddy..." Mumbo said, "Where did you learn that?"

"I learned it from many failed experiences and never being able to find books on it so just working to create my own."

"What?!" Mumbo's brain was fried to bits. How did the guy that presumably knew nothing about redstone write books about it?

"I'll tell you more later, now I want to go back to sleep..." Grian mumbled before walking back out. Leaving a dumbfounded Mumbo behind.

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It was an hour later when Mumbo finally managed to stand up and fully freak out. Grian knew redstone! He immediately grabbed his communicator and shot a message to X.

-In chat-

Mumbo: X, I need to talk to you... Now

Mumbo: Nothing bad, just very shocked

Xisuma: What happened?

Mumbo: A certain pesky bird got exposed because he was sleep deprived...

Mumbo: Just come please, I'll explain once your here

-End chat-

After a few minutes X arrived at Mumbo's base, worried. "Okay! What happened? Are you okay? Is Grian okay?" X kept rambling on.

"I'm fine." Mumbo assured him, with an unreadable expression on his face. "I'm just mad that no one's ever told me how good Grian is at redstone."

"Whatever do you mean? He's terrible, his words not mine!" X was very curious what happened for mumbo to be in such a state of shock.

"Grian can do redstone..."

"What?!"

Mumbo sighed, "He came in, about as sleep deprived as I probably look and fixed the small xp farm which I couldn't get to work. And added a function I didn't even know was possible."

X was speechless, "Are you sure it works, and that the person was Grian and not Doc or something?" He just couldn't believe that the pesky bird that claimed to be so terrible at redstone could do that.

"100% sure that it was Grian, haven't tested if it works yet. But he did say if it didn't work that I should play with the tickspeed of the comparators?"

"Let's test it out then"

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"Wait... It works. That means Grian is a redstone prodigy, has written multiple redstone books, never told anyone and claimed he was bad at redstone..."

"What the-"

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Hi everyone, hope you liked the story and that you will keep reading. If I missed any TW's (I don't think so but still) or if I am going over any of the included youtubers boundaries that I do not yet know of please notify me so I can or change or delete the chapter.

I'll see you beyond the pages, maybe the next one will be a PJO/HOO oneshot...

-Aureus Snowfall