hermitcraft quest: journey for the fusion Stars

chapter 2: a horrifying realisation

Hey y'all I am back on writing 😅 I kinda have been pretty off mentally and I'm back!

I forgotten to mention in the first chapter how my writing format is

For Characters speaking I use itallics

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"What do you mean...star on my chest mumbo?" Doc asked out of confusion, as mumbo gestured to his chest

As doc looked down he suddenly remembered that grian was gone and starts freaking out, making mumbo question doc and why he looks strangely like grian and seeing him flip out.

"OH GOD I JUST REMEMBERED, X IS SO GOING TO RING MY NECK IF HE FOUND OUT I-"

before he said anymore he slapped his hands over his mouth, mumbo grew pretty concerned not knowing if he should run, get out his communication device, but instead he smacks doc across the face,grabbing the scientist who is pretty much having a mental meltdown by the shoulders making him face himself

"doc what happened!!! Your saying x is gonna ring your neck, what did you do that's so horrible that x would do that"

After a long pause that almost seemed like 20 minutes, doc what he assumes thinking he killed grian spoke up in a shooken tone,

"I... I killed grian, he kept rambling about some star and why they shouldn't fall and that it was attracted to his chest,while I was analysing some mysterious rock then
I told him to go to his room but he didn't listen and he ran full force at me..."

Mumbo confused not processing it very well choked out a few words from his confusion,

"t...then what Happened"

Doc sighed and hesitantly responded to mumbos confusion knowing the guy is kinda known to be clueless.

"a bright flash and alot of pain, but grian was gone"

mumbo gulps then brings up something strange that had been bugging him,handing doc a mirror

"doc it's seriously bothering me that you look like grian"

Doc raised a brow before looking at the mirror suddenly dropping it, causing the mirror to shatter,on the floor, after looking at his reflection, a grim realisation dawned on him as he realizes what happened, denying all facts of it ever happening,

"This is very hard to process this but he's here but also not, infact hes... Part of me....this shouldn't be possible without a complex machine"

mumbo backed away concerned, from doc before looking at the star in the frame, and the star on docs chest realising that docs is two colors.

"doc the star on your chest is two colors, while the one I have is only one color, do you think it has to do with the stars"

Doc grabbed mumbo by the shoulders getting a idea but spooking the shorter fancy dressed male,

"mumbo you might be onto something, I have a idea! But I need you to build a machine similar to your piston slime doors but able to connect to a person.
(cuz that logic seems the most sense-my friend Matt) ",

doc grabbed out a notebook from his labcoat sloppily sketching out some blue prints, mumbo watched him sketching out the sloppily done sketch speaking up,

"I can do this it'll take a while though this is pretty complicated"

Doc nodded, "I sure hope this works what I'm thinking"

What felt like hour's turned into almost a week of mumbo working non-stop without sleep, mumbo had worked himself to the point his hands were stained red and had cuts on his arms and hands.

Concerned doc places a hand of the half asleep chap,

"mumbo thanks for doing this but you should rest you've worked on this machine without taking a break"

mumbo nodded getting up before shoving doc in the machines tube suddenly closing the door.

Doc banged on the glass a bit upset he was shoved suddenly,

"what the hell mumbo!! That was uncalled for"

Mumbo ignored him kinda a mix of half sleep and just wanting his friend back flicking the switch, there was quite a loud boom which caught the attention of tango and ren returning, followed, by docs painful Yelp as him and grian were forcefully separated.

Tango and ren flew down to mumbos base concerned, looking at grian and doc cramped in a glass tube with pained looks on their faces but the stars still embedded in their chests.

Tango ran over opening the door catching doc and grian from falling on their faces.

"mumbo! What we're you doing to them"

tango snapped at him mumbo not answering much due to nearly passing out

"Dude what happened why were they in this tube...." Ren piped up glaring at mumbo thinking he hurt them

Mumbo nodding off smacking his forehead on the chest he was leaning on suddenly jolting up with a yawn as he finally responded

" doc had come over flipping out that he thought he killed grian but something was off about the entire thing that he looked like grian, that's when he got the realization sketching that weird machine, and me working non-stop on it I kinda just shoved him in it and separated them, to put it short they were fused and I made that machine to unfused them"

Grian wiggled out of tangos arms before shakily stumbling over to a nearby bush, suddenly vomiting up a thick greyish black substance, almost collapsing, but ren quickly catches him before he fell. Everyone had a look of pure concern seeing that doc wasn't getting sick like grian was, but seeing grian had a greyish tint to his skin, tango spoke up,

"now I really think we need to talk to x about this"

The others nodded in agreement
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Sorry this is shorter then expected

I've been having a tough time with my mental state and haven't been to dandy

Also bit of a cliffhanger again what could be happening to grian, I guess you just will find out in ch 3!