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Grian and Mumbo haven't properly talked in weeks. Every time Grian approached Mumbo, he'd walk or fly away from him, leaving the helpless boy alone. Grian got tired and sadden by that happening every time. So he thought he'll come uninvited to his base and ask him to hang out the whole day, maybe play minigames or work on something together (not like he had any project in mind) or anything that will allow Grian to spend time with Mumbo.

Grian got himself an elytra with the help of Scar so he can easily fly to Mumbo's Base-in-between-bases? BIBB? Whatever it was called. Grian lands inside the base and looks around, he finds a hole in the middle of it with wooden entrance, he jumps in it. It's Mumbo's base and Grian could admit it looks rather cosy and nice but now he has to look for Mumbo. The base is really small and Grian couldn't find him anywhere, just as he was about to fly out Mumbo drops in with his elytra and flies right past Grian in his storage system.

"Mumbo! I was looking for you!" Grian quickly speaks with a smile on his face. "How are you?" He asks, his blue eyes showing that he's begging for Mumbo to talk to him. Grian fidgets with the rockets string.

"I'm fine. What do you need?" Mumbo asks while walking towards Grian, staring at his rather sadden eyes filling Mumbo with guilt.

"I- Uhm, I wanted to ask if you're busy today...I was thinking maybe we could spend the day together, maybe play Scar's mining minigame or work on a project together or-" Grian gets cut off when Mumbo walks away from him and looks inside a chest. The sweater boy feels like he's a bother and prepares to fly back to his base, "I'm sorry for bothering you- I'll leave;" Grian jumps to take off but Mumbo grabs his arm.

"I bet I can mine more diamonds than you." Mumbo says in a cheeky and confident tone, smiling at Grian, before flying off towards Scar's base. Grian grew a giant smile on his face and flies after Mumbo. Mumbo's base isn't that far from Scar's so they arrived rather quickly. Grian already talked to Scar if he and Mumbo can play, if Mumbo agreed.

Everything was prepared for them, Scar made sure of it. The two men picked apart to start mining and ready, set, go! Mumbo and Grian start mining. Grian already found a cave and start looking around it for any open diamonds, too his luck there was a group of 4 right above the lava. He covers the lava with stone and mines the diamonds and of course, gets them in ores. Grian keeps looking around and accidentally makes eye contact with an enderman sitting down in a 2 block space, staring right into Grian's eyes but not attacking him. Grian is both scared and confused by this, it's- not how they act, at all. He slowly walks closer to the enderman with his sword out in case it attacks. It doesn't, it just stares, deep inside Grian's soul. Grian takes one more step closer and it teleports away. Grian starts feeling rather dizzy and light-headed so he sits where the enderman was, just for a few minutes so he feels better.

Mumbo has been strip mining for what seems almost the whole time given and is yet to find a cave. He managed to find about 10 diamond ores. He was getting bored by this time and got lost in thought as he mindlessly keeps mining. Mumbo remembers the dreams- nightmares he's been getting because of It. Mumbo feels like he was such a fool to think It can change back into being good again like it was before. The stupid scars he got for what, snapping at it for using him? Being heard? Trying to make that dream friendship healthy? Mumbo feels anger rise in him. "That- thing- It freaking used me. It freaking used me. Scamming Iskall with Bamboos, creating Hermit Challenges, and dragging Grian and Iskall in it. The stupid button that created another civil war. It-" Mumbo stops himself and takes a breather. He punches the stone in front of him leaving a rather large crack. "Screw sleeping." Mumbo mumbled he was done. If sleeping is what allows It to interact with him, screw it. He can deal with it, he can drink coffee to keep him awake. Hey, more time to work on his projects, mobs will spawn but they can't reach him for the top of his megabase.

The time was up and both of them come back and place their diamonds ores inside a shulker chest. Mumbo got a stack and 3 diamond ores, Grian, on the other hand, got a stack and 5 diamonds ores. Mumbo feels defeated and Grian stands there with his hand on his hips, proud of himself.