Freeze or Fall

Chapter 6: Sickness

"ISKALL"

Iskall jumped a little, and turned around. Sure enough, two robots were standing a ways behind him.

"SORRY"

"No, it's okay, you startled me, that's all. What brings you two here?" Iskall asked, placing down the shulker he was carrying.

Grumbot set Jrumbot on a shulker. "SOMETHING HAPPENED TO SCAR. MUMBO ASKED ME TO LEAVE JRUMBOT WITH YOU, IF THAT'S OKAY."

"It's fine, but um. What happened to Scar?"

"I DON'T KNOW, BUT HE LOOKED TO BE ALIVE SO THAT'S SOMETHING."

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Mumbo was pacing when Xisuma landed.

"I-I just found h-him like this." Mumbo stuttered.

Scar was collapsed on the ground, unconscious. there were splotches of black goo around him, some even on his skin. He looked pale, but was breathing at least.

"We should get him to Doc, he might know what's going on." Xisuma said, pulling up his admin screen. "Hold o, I'm gonna teleport us."

Mumbo held his breath as Xisuma typed in the command, and the unfamiliar feeling ripped through his body. Teleporting wasn't a very comfortable thing, but at least it was fast. Before he knew it, they were in a makeshift medical building, Scar lying on one of the beds. Mumbo took a moment to be impressed with Xisuma's precision before the nausea set in.

Mumbo quickly grabbed a bucket from his inventory and threw up. "Sorry, I get motion sick." he mumbled.

"That's alright, it was your first time anyways." Xisuma reassured him, before turning to Doc. "Find anything?"

Doc shook his head. "Unfortunately not. All I can say for sure is that the black stuff is contagious. This sickness doesn't seem to be airborne, which is a relief, but I'm going to do some more testing. I called up Stress, we're going to partner up to figure out what's going on."

"Okay, any other course of action we should take?" Xisuma asked. "You're the expert here."

"We should warn everyone about the black stuff, and keep these three quarantined for now. Their bases should be off limits as well to avoid a spread." Doc answered. "Anyone who's been near near them in the past 24 hours should quarantine themselves too, just in case."

Xisuma nodded, pulling out his communicator. "I'll let the other Hermit's know."

"I guess I'll hole myself up in my base." Mumbo said. "I'll message Iskall and let him know as well."

"Good. We need to take as many precautions as possible until we find out more about this."

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Hey guys, this is super short, srry. Due to timings and me trying to avoid having to say "timeskip" I'm ending this chapter here. Don't worry, the next chapter will be much longer and will have a lot of stuff happen, as well as some Grian action (finally lol) and some more interesting plot.

And I know I promised this chapter yesterday, but as Zloy said: "sorry for the late release, ran out of useable brain cells"