Another Side to The Hermits

Another Side to The Hermits Part 5

Author's note: I don't know why I'm writing. I just got out of surgery a couple of hours ago. My mouth is bleeding like crazy. Though yeah! Enjoy!

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Grian:

The group of men plus one woman lined the farthest wall. They each looked at each other in awkward silence before the other version of Doc took a step forward. The other Doc's tail twitched.

 " Come on guys.... Introduce yourselves..." he whispered as Ren gave him a concerned look, " They already know who we are D. Some of them are us." he gave a small motion towards Ren, who just sat there on the bed as Doc lifted his shirt slightly to treat the wound from the arrow that shot him backwards. 

 The other Doc sighed, " We still should be polite..." he shook his head as Wels took a step forward. 

 He straightened himself up, " I'm Welsknight." he spoke in a calm manner with an awkward smile. 

 X was the next to take a step forward, " I'm Xisuma, but I just go by X." I could hear the awkwardness in his voice from behind his helmet. 

 One by one each member of the team gave their introductions until it was left to Doc. The other Doc crossed his arms behind his back, " and I'm Docm.... Our team name is the D-Team." he finished the introduction with a small bow. 

  I looked at the clothes each member was wearing to try and figure out who was who. Doc was clearly me, Ren was Mumbo, and Impulse was Iskall that was already figured out previously.

 I looked at Wels first due to how he was the first one to speak. Wels was wearing a plain grey shirt and blue jeans instead of full blown grey armor. The only guy on the server that came to mind that could possibly fit the casual clothing besides myself was Joe. The more I think about it; the more it made sense. When I saw Joe earlier he was wearing an almost full set of armor of light blue and black armor. That was my best guest for him. I can see what Mumbo and the others think of it later. 

 I continued to look at each hermit. X still had his helmet, but he was now wearing a green hood and blue jeans. That outfit roughly matched Jevin's white hood and blue jeans. 

 False was the last person to guess. The only person I could think of was Cleo. The reason that I could come up with was that False's shirt matched something to Cleo usually wears, but the colors matched False's own coloring to her usual striped shirt and jacket. 

 I was snapped back into reality as Mumbo took the bandages off my hurt arm causing even more pain. 

 The D-Team members murmured in concern.

 " Why would Grian do this to himself?" Wels shook his head with a grunt. 

 Normal Ren looked up at Wels, " Well, it wasn't technically Grian. Mumbo shot him and me." he explained as Mumbo gave Ren a brief glance before remembering the fact that there were two of him now, so he went back to work on my arm. Mumbo looked up at me, " Why would they spend so much time healing your arm and not your leg?" he whispered only to me as I shrugged my other shoulder. I leaned toward him, " I can't really run with a bad leg, so I guess they believed if my leg was messed up I was easier to catch?" I suggested as Mumbo shook his head.

 " That's a more reassuring answer than what I believed." I heard him whisper as I frowned.

Mumbo finished my arm and leaned back slightly.

 " What was your answer?" I leaned closer to him.

 " I thought they wanted to.... " he couldn't bring himself to finish the sentence. 

I frowned at him and put my good arm on his shoulder, " We can talk about this when the D-Team leaves." I told him as he nodded. The two of us looked up at the other versions of the friends, and I let out a thankful sigh that they were occupied by Ren and Doc explaining our world to them.

 I glanced back and noticed Iskall still mindlessly sitting on his chair; his fingers absentmindedly tapping against his bouncing knee. Mumbo noticed my looking because he stood up and walked over to Iskall.

 " You okay?" I heard him whisper causing Iskall to join us back in reality.

 Iskall's breathing was shaky as he recovered from his near heart attack. 

He looked at Mumbo awkwardly, " Sorry. I was just thinking." he gave an awkward laugh as he joined Mumbo and me on our bed, " What were you thinking about?" I asked as Iskall shrugged him shoulders.

 " It's not that important." he shook his head as he leaned against my back. I looked at Iskall, " Are you sure it's not that important?" I asked as Iskall nodded. I didn't want to pursue to question any further out of stressing Iskall, so I changed the subject, " How did you guys find us exactly?" I asked Mumbo as he thought for a moment.

 Iskall spoke up, " We saw the other us carrying you two away, so we silently followed until they went into the base. Doc said that if we had counterparts here then he and Ren should as well." he explained as he looked over at Doc, who was having his arm looked at by an amazed other!Doc.

Iskall rubbed his eye, " It took some convincing that Mumbo and I weren't bad guys and eventually we made the plan and broke you out." he finished as he moved off my back. 

 Iskall looked at my arm that was now in an uncomfortable sling.

 " Other Mumbo really messed you up dude...." he sighed as I nodded, " At least he didn't shoot me in the eye, throat, or chest right?" I shrugged as Iskall nodded with a fidget.

" Uh, hey guys. My counterpart has some bad news for us." Ren coughed with a scared look on his face. 

The three of us looked at other Ren, " So, uh, how do I put this...." he crossed his arms over his chest.

 He looked at the others for help, but they just shook their heads.

 " You guys are sort of stuck here...."

 He said as he bit his lip, and my heart sank.