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Chapter Two: The Investigation Deepens

The next day Davis and the rest of Alpha Nine woke up early and made their way the to the Hermitcraft season 6. Portal Xisuma was already out there grabbing the mail when they arrived but strangely the security guard for the portal was missing.

Davis and his team approached the portals with passersby's clearing the way. Everyone knew that when someone from the core server was around, they meant business especially when it came to Alpha Nine. Even reporters in the area knew better then to try and block them. Afterall interfering with a law officials job was a high offence. Especially when it came to groups from the Office of Server Investigations.

Alpha Nine arrived at their destination and Davis approached the Hermitcraft Administrator. "Hello Administrator Xisuma, my name is Sergeant Davis Ramirez, and this is my squad Alpha Nine. We are here to conduct a search of your day time security guard Jacob O'Bryan's belongings in his office. He's suspected of being a member of the Ender Watchers. We have a warrant for his arrest and to search his work place and home. Please let us in otherwise you will be suspected of being an accomplice."

Xisuma nodded and allowed them entry into the office. And the group began to work quickly and flawlessly has they did. Jacqueline often called Jacque by her teammates was the residence forensic on the team. Was taking Fingerprint samples from the computer's keyboard. Normally Forensic work in the way that She was doing right now would be illegal but because the person in question was suspected of be a part of a known large terrorist and crime group they had authorization to look for DNA of anyone known or suspect to be a part of the group and or brought in on unrelated charges which the government had a sample of.

"Davis get over here. Take a look at this." She said has she showed him her device it showed the name, one that Davis was all too familiar with from when he was in his training days. The fingerprint scanner showed the name of Samuel Gladiator. One of the last graduates from Yandere High School and One of the few people that they had on file for another crime that was suspected to be a member of the Ender Watchers.

"Samuel Gladiator huh, He was a suspect in Mr. Charles did appearance a few years ago has well wasn't he? Do you think they were trying to bring him back to the EW?" Davis asked his teammate with a frown.

"Don't know. But this is still something that we need to look into. Speaking of have Hans and Cain finished that background check yet?" Jacqueline asked her friend and teammate. Just when she finished Davis's phone when off. Looking at the Id Davis saw that it was Cain.

"Cain, do you have the results of the background check yet?" Davis asked the man with a frown. On the other end Cain was sitting in the Alpha Nine office and nodded. On the screen was a picture of a man in his early twenties.

"Yes, and I believe that there are somethings that should be brought to yours and Administrator Xisuma's attention. One is that it appears that the forms the Mr. O'Bryan sent in when being interviewed were faked. However, we were able to identified who he really was. Also Mr. O'Bryan was detained Earlier this morning by server security for misuse of administrative powers." Cain replied.

"Let me guess. It turns out that he actually is a young man by the name of Samuel Gladiator, right?" Davis replied with an unseen frown. Cain confirmed this an awaited the leader of Alpha Nine next order. "Inform commander Venom to keep him in custody until further notice. Make sure that he's aware of the situation and have him brought to the interrogation room. Me, Jacque and Iris will return has soon as we finish searching the Hermitcraft security station. In the meantime, have Hans look into Samuel's file and see if he has some other records. He should have some from his days at Yandere high school."

"Understood, informing Commander Venom now. I will see you in about an hour." Cain said ending the call. Meanwhile over at the Hermitcraft security station Davis was questioning Xisuma and the other Hermits about Sam and what they knew about him.

"So, Mumbo Jumbo, last time I saw you, I was still in training about to ask you the same questions I'm going to now so let's just skip to the questions I haven't asked you before. Has Grian to your knowledge have any interaction with the suspect since coming here?"

"No Officer Ramirez I don't believe so. I'd be surprised if he did though. Restraining order and all." Mumbo replied with a calm expression. This wasn't his first time being interrogated by police officers. Not at all, being a close friend of Grian's during his middle and high years and even to this day meant that he was all too aware of what happened to Grian back then but didn't have any information on it due to Sam forcing Grain to keep quiet about it.

"I see, did you see anything unusual near Grian's base on the night of the incident?" Davis casually continued with his questioning. Mumbo frowned in thought for a moment before given an answer.

"Come to think of it, yes I did! There was a purple looking phantom near Grian's base. I didn't think much of it at the time because it was late, and I was tired, but I saw one that looked like that this morning thanks to the data pack that Xisuma put on so that phantoms would spawn even if we didn't sleep.

"Why did Xisuma put this data pack on? Davis asked the mustached man before him. Mumbo then explained that they were doing a server event called the phantom hunt where people would be hunting phantoms and who ever got the most phantoms would with the prize pool. Davis took note of this and frowned. Looks like he had a new lead.

Meanwhile Jacqueline was talking to another member of the Hermitcraft server. Her name was False Symmetry a young, blond haired woman with blue eyes. She was known to be a rather friendly woman. She had received a text from Davis telling her about his conversation with Mumbo. But that would have to wait until she finished the rest of the questions.

"Thank you again Miss Symmetry for agreeing to being questioned today. My name is Jacqueline, and I will be the one questioning you today. Now to start how long have you been a member of Hermitcraft for?"

"I've been a member for five seasons now. I joined in the second season." False replied to the questioned with ease. Jacqueline nodded and smiled at the woman before asking the next question.

"Alright then, has there to the best of your knowledge been any unusual activity on the server? If so, then please explain to the best of your ability." Jacqueline revealed the next question calmly. False took a moment to think before giving her answer.

"There has actually been a bit of unusual activity. But not too much, people on the server have been reporting sightings of slightly purple phantoms and a few weeks ago I saw a strange man on the server who wasn't on the whitelist. I didn't get his name, but he wanted to know where Grian's base was. I didn't tell him though because I knew that he wasn't a member of the server. I know that because if we were getting a new member or guest Xisuma would have said so in advance or called a group meeting." False answered clearly.

"I see, I'm going to show you a picture of a suspect in the Ender Watcher case. Please tell me if it's the man in question or not." Jacqueline ordered kindly has she pulled out a tablet and pulled up a picture on the screen. False looked at the picture carefully going over every detail of the person and comparing it to the man that she met. Her eyes widen in shock has she realized that it was indeed the same person.

"That's him, that the guy I saw, no doubt about it." False replied to the question quickly. Jacqueline took note and then moved on to a slightly different topic but not before sending a message to Davis telling him of the situation.

Meanwhile back at Server Core Hospital Dr. Maverick was meeting Grian's family. The Watsons to talk about their options going forward. "Thank you for coming to meet with me today Mr. and Mrs. Watson, I'm sure that you know why I called you here, so I'll just get to the point. We are still trying to figure out how it happened but somehow your son got infected by a phantom endermen hybrid. We don't know how it happened."

"We know that much but what I don't understand is how such a thing got onto the server. Before our son joined Xisuma gave us a list of all the data packs that was installed on the server. We still have and none of them included hybrid mobs. In fact, to our knowledge there's no such mod pack." Mrs. Amber Watson, a blond haired woman replied.

"Yes, that's true which is why we'd like permission to take more blood and data samples so that we can take a closer look at the problem we believe that this was some sort of bioengineered weapon that was made by the Ender Watchers to target your son. If we can do more research into it, then we can hopefully find a cure for him and anyone else that's been infected." Cody explained the best that he could.

"I see, then do what you must. Have you spoken to Administrator Xisuma about this? Surely, he would need to know if something like this was happening on his server, yes?" Mr. Robert Watson replied to the doctors request.

"We have, he's currently in questioning with the rest of his server about the portal's security guard but after he's done, he's going to request a meeting with the council of administrators and plan his next steps from there. Until then all unnecessary travel in and out of the server is restricted. He's also put the phantom hunt on hold for now for his hermit's safety." Cody replied softly.

"I would hope so. He was the top graduate of his year at Everston Academy the top administrator school in our world. Regardless, what kind of test will you be doing?" Mrs. Watson asked the doctor curiously.

"Well, were going to separate the virus from the host so that he can see just what is in the virus's and the separated DNA's structure and its effects on Grian's data we would be able to understand the virus if we could see it's progression from start to finished. With that we would be able to understand just how to cure it or at least make the systems manageable, preferably the former." Cody replied with a frown.

"That makes since. What about the council of administrators, surely, they should be informed of something this major? Have you spoken to them about this yourselves?" The other Mrs. Watson asked the doctor. She was Grian's aunt on his father's side of the family. Her name was Kristen and she had long brown hair and was a member of the conseil of creators the only people ranked higher than an admin.

Meanwhile in a building in the main world not too far from the server worlds entrance was a man in his early twenties sat at the head of a half circle table made of dark oak wood and decorated with a dark red cloth with gold trimmings.

He was a Jackal hybrid with black hair and tan skin, brown eyes and sliver trimmed glasses. His outfit consisted of a black undershirt with gold and red trim with a silver belt with a skull on it with black pants and shoes with an off shoulder jacket with matching trimmings to his shirt.

He was doing a final check to ensure that everything was ready for the emergency meeting that he had to call due to the situation on the Hermitcraft server. He looked around the room one last time before deciding that everything was ready. He then looked at the clock and noted that he still had a few minutes before the rest of the council of administrators arrived he decided to give his husband a call.

He wasn't surprised that Bryan picked up right away knowing that he was off work at the moment due to the fact that the company he worked for being under heavy investigation due to issues regarding how they handled things in the company. Specifically, incidents of the life threatening verity.

Bryan himself wasn't trouble, being the one who reported this issue and many others. But even so it was going to be awhile before his husband went back work. Then again, he was planning on quieting the company anyways so that wasn't a problem.

"Hey babe, I was just about to call you. How's work going?" Bryan asked with a smile.

"Good dear but listen I might be home a little bit late tonight. Something's comes up at work and the council has to hold an emergency meeting. So don't be surprised if I'm late home tonight, okay?" Smiled Inpu before remembering what Bryan said at the start of the call. "Why were you about to call me?

"I just got a call from Brianna, Atlas isn't feeling well and she wants me to pick him up. She says that he he's in a little bit of pain and recommended that we take him to the doctor." Bryan explains worriedly.

"I see, thanks for letting me know. I'll have Magness on standby in case we need someone else to watch Femi and Lotus. I know we normally have Bri and Austin watch them to have Magnus do it instead, but I think it might be for the best with Austin's sisters still in the hospital." Inpu replied.

"Good Idea, I don't want Austin to have any other problems than the ones he already has because of the accident. Anyway, I got to go, I'm just about to go into the daycare. Love you Babe, see you when you get home." Bryan smiled.

"Okay love you dear. Take care of Atlas for me, okay?" Smiled Inpu has he hung up the phone. He then sat in the main chare that was reserved for the overseer of the conseil. Eventually Inpu and the rest of the council were ready to start the meeting.

POST CHAPTER NOTES

World Building:

Name: Cody Maverick

Based off of: TheAtlanticCraft

Role: Doctor

Rank: Administrator

Description: This iteration of the TheAtlanticCraft is based on there broken mods hospital roleplay. Here he is a kind doctor who takes his job with the upmost seriousness and is rearly if ever found joking on the job. He always prioritizes the wellbeing of his patients and will do what it take to ensure that they can recover to the best of their ability.

Server Core: This server is located in the very heart of the Hub. It provides emergency services to servers that don't have it such has Law Enforcement, Medical assistance and firefighting. It also serves as an evacuation site if it's need for a server experiencing a major problem and provides assistance to admins to help run their server.