I now have someone trying to assist me with getting my nodes back and to do so, I have to re-add the Metamask extension to my wallet.
Who assisting you? make sure the one who assists you is the one who you really trusted.
Nervously, I started the process of connecting it again and it is asking me to enter my seed recovery phrase, which to my understanding is the 12-word phrase I got when I created the wallet, which was done on the mobile app. I went through this same process and this is the exact same thing I did when I was hacked before. ~and right after following these same steps before (setting up the Chrome extension) I got hacked. And the site I was on before and am on now is metamask.io.
Those are normally required steps if you want to restore your wallet from seed phrases. As of now, why and how exactly do you think you got hacked?
Make sure you are using and downloading a legitimate Metamask plugin. Is worth noting that your device is also free from malware.
The person who is assisting me is an admin of a telegram group that I'm in for Strongblock nodes. The wallet was hacked in December when I created the nodes and I know because they took the ETH and AVAX I had sitting in the wallet. I went to Etherscan and Snowtrace and saw the transfer of the coins out of the wallet and onto theirs, leaving me at less than a dollar of ETH. I went to Metamask.io to reconnect the wallet because that is the wallet connected to the nodes. You can't access the nodes without using the Metamask wallet and I had to use the one that was previously hacked.