THIS CHAPTER ISN'T CANNON TO THE ORIGINAL STORYLINE SO FAR

Frog stared at the message in chat, unblinking. "No..." They whispered. "They must've just left the game, right? Or- they-" Frog looked down at their left, bandaged hand. They slowly unwrapped it. A large scar was scraped across the palm, now glowing a soft blue since the skulk incident. They wrapped it back up and turned to the machine behind them.

"Sure, it's nice here, but... it's not home. It's not Wattpad." Frog murmured to themselves, sadly staring with blue eyes at the machine that Pine had built to take the Hermitpadders home. Frog entered the machine, accidentally pressing a button. The doors shut with a clang behind them, and Frog panicked. They banged on the machine, worry filling their heart. 

A soft blue glow engulfed the machine and Frog gazed in awe at their own hand, unwrapping it. Once the bandage was off, the scrape lit up the entire space and glowed so brightly Frog shielded their eyes. 

A whirling portal of blue, white, purple, orange and green opened up beneath Frog's feet and swallowed them up.

Spinning, twisting, whirling through time like a bird rides the wind, so softly and so delicate, yet quickly. 

They covered  their eyes, hiding them from the  figures and shapes glinting at the edges of their vision.

Suddenly warping back to time, just a few hours before...

Frog gasped and opened their eyes. They looked at the clock as they stepped out of the machine. It was three hours before Ember had left- That meant-

"I just travelled through time,"

Ember yawned and continued building. They were interrupted by a scream.

"EMBER!"

Ember whirled around and saw Frog bolting towards their base on an elytra. 

"Frog! What's happened? Angst? Watcher lore? Convex?"

Frog started speaking so quickly that only bits and pieces could be heard. 

"Woah, woah! Slow down. Tell me. What's up?" Ember comfortingly stroked Frog's arm.

Frog gasped for breath, and then started. "I know whats going to happen in an hour, and it's bad. Ember, I somehow traveled through time in Pine's machine because of my glowing scar and now I'm here to fix the past so that it never happens, but now we need Pine and Naya. Please." They finished, looking exhausted and concerned.  Ember gazed at them confusedly. 

"EMBER-!"

The two non-hermits looked to the sky as Scar crashed into the build. 

"Oh, hey Scar! I was just talking to Frog about-"

"Ember... I couldn't stop them..." Scar gasped.

"Scar... Where's Cub?"

Scar didn't respond, looking down.

"Scar. Where's Cub?!" Ember asked again, growing more panicked. "No. No... no no no..."

Scar straightened himself and beckoned for Ember and Frog to follow him. The three flew away, in the direction of Cub's base, and then the giant crater where Total chaos had been.

Frog started feeling uneasy and unwrapped their hand cautiously. As Scar and Ember landed, a winged, cloaked figure grabbed the non-hermit.

"LET THEM GO!" Frog screeched as they landed beside Scar. Their hand glowed bright blue, but they didn't care. Ember gazed at the hand, wide-eyed. 

Frog lifted their blue glowing hand and pulled back on air, and suddenly Ember was free of the Watcher's grasp and behind Scar. The Watcher hissed as more and more Watchers popped out of the ground around them. Scar clawed at one of them while Ember took on two. Frog stood in the center of a circle of Watchers, glaring at all of them as Ember and Scar's wails of terror filled the air. Frog suddenly lifted up their hand, and the surrounding Watchers shed from the light, disappearing. The blue glow caught on around a Watcher portal, grabbing a hand and dragging it out. Frog pulled, the effort sapping away their energy. Ember grabbed Frog's shoulders and helped to pull back. Scar joined in a moment later, and soon Naya and Pine came along from the skies to help. 

"PULL!" Naya yelled, tugging with all her might. Suddenly, Cub was out of the portal and Scar stepped away just in time as the four non-hermits fell into a blue portal. 

Turning and twisting yet again, flying through worlds, barely aware of anything but hands, joining together, staying together...

(Back in hermitcraft)

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Scar and Cub gasped, staring at the portal as it closed up. The two friends shared a glance, worried.

xisumavoid: Don't worry everyone,

xisumavoid: i think they've gone home

(meanwhile, with the Hermitpadders...)

Frog opened their eyes and groaned, the force of the impact had made all four of them unconscious, hadn't it? A sudden music filled the air and Frog recognized it at once.

Frog hastily shook Naya awake, and then went to Ember and Pine. The music had ended by the time everyone was awake and standing, and with a small ding!, the doors of the elevator opened.

"I don't believe it," Frog whispered.

"We're in Doors."

*sobs and dies*

(Naya, your turn!)