It was strange to see his hands so small, but when Mumbo woke up all he felt so small. He looked down at his torso, looking at a lot more than he thought, so he rolled out of bed and went to put on his slippers only to find them massively oversized. He looked, comparing his height to his bed and then looking down to find he stood far shorter, probably about the same height he was when he was nine. "What the heck?" He touched his face, finding a clean face instead of his beautiful whiskers. He ran out of his bed and to the main space in his house, tripping over his long pajama pant legs and hitting his face on the floor. Tears welled over in his eyes, so he rolled up his pant legs, sniffling and jumping into a minecart to go see Grian. One long trip down the tunnel later, he ended up covering his ears, annoyed at the sound of the bell ringing. He was curled up in the cart uncomfortably.
Grian was asleep, but hearing the ring excited him, making him jump from his bed and run out, shouting "Mumbo messaged me! Mumbo messaged me!" into the empty space before spotting the small figure in the cart. He stopped for a moment and then ran up to the small form. "What is.." Then Mumbo lifted his little head and looked at him with a panicked look on his face.
"Grian! I woke up and now I am short and don't know what to do!"
"Dude you are like a kid.. like maybe ten? Why are you small? Did you piss off Scar?"
Mumbo clumsily fell out of the cart and ran up to Grian, giving him what would have been a normal hug if not for the angel now being taller than the redstoner. He was so much shorter than he normally stood and it was pretty alarming. Grian was taller than him. "I just woke up like this.." He lost some of the gravel to his voice, sounding much younger than he normally did.
He couldn't hold back a laugh, shuffling his hand through the shaggy black hair on the top of his head. It was much longer than it was before, unruly and tangled. "Lets go ask Xisuma if he has any ideas what is going on, okay?" He knelt before the child who nodded and was lifted up easily by the adult, thrown over his shoulder. Climbing through the broken window nearby was easy and then he took a running jump into the air, flying off toward the admin's towering base in the other Jungle.
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When Grian and the young Mumbo made their way to Xisuma, they saw another small Hermit standing before him. This one was far smaller than MiniMum, head being at Xisuma's midsection. He had a head of messy, black hair and was loudly whining about his current small form. The admin's head lifted and he spotted Mumbo, eyes widening under the black and yellow helmet that he wore custom for this season. "Grian?" His voice was amplified, played through a microphone and speaker that played through his helmet's air filter. "Who ya got there?"
"MiniMum here ended up in my house and we have no clue how this tiny one ended up this way," he explained, resting the redstone engineer on the ground slowly. The other small Hermit, who has hid behind Xisuma's leg for comfort peeked his head out and none of them really recognized him. Was he new?
"I see," Xisuma said and walked over to the two newcomers, leaving the other child alone. He wore a suit similar to Mumbo and had very shaggy, dark hair. The pair could be brothers, even having eyes the same color. Though, dark hair wasn't uncommon in this world, so it could be that someone else was young as well? "So xB and Mumbo have turned, the two youngest. Maybe it will get to tall of us in time? Mumbo, what time about did this happen to you?" Xisuma was walking closer and suddenly the former tallest Hermit was overshadowed by this admin. He looked intimidated, almost afraid.
So it was xB, Grian realized he hadn't seen xB all that much and just assumed he was older like Hypno. Well, you know what they say about when you assume. He saw Mumbo's anxious expression and pulled him back a little bit, protective of him as if he claimed him as his own child since he was the first went to for help."X, you're scaring him," Grian quietly warned and X instantly backed up. "He said he woke up like this, so some time in the night. What about xB? When did he turn?"
Xisuma looked back to xB who looked like he was trying to stick his head inside of himself like a turtle. "La nigh" He sounded like he was trying to say that it was last night, but was having trouble with some of the letters. It was kind of adorable.
Xisuma explained as much of what he found from doing some diagnostic checks on Mumbo and xB. They were both about fifteen years younger, now nine and five respectively. It was strange and not even X could explain what happened to them, but he was pretty sure it wasn't contagious. MiniMum and xBaby, as the server had started to call them, were passed from person to person at nights. xBaby had a bit of a speech impediment and couldn't say certain sounds, but on nights where the two stayed with Scar he taught him more and how he dealt with his when he was younger.
Iskall challenged MiniMum to a redstone challenge and, though he needed help getting into higher places, the younger of them won the challenge. The cyborg claims he went easy on him, but everyone knows he didn't.
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Each Hermit took care of them and then when it aligned perfectly that they would be back with Xisuma, about a month since it began, they returned to their normal states. They didn't notice until the morning when Mumbo woke up with his arms tightly wrapped around Xisuma in his bed with xB on his other side. They decided to go back to their normal lives from then on, but both loved their time being taken care of.
