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Alright: The Sky Army generals, TobyTurner, Markiplier and his friend, PBG and his friends, the two children of Herobrine, the children of Notch, a few extra friends, and a very dangerous girl have a plan to defeat The Squids once and for all. But the plan included getting the essence of the Wither, and injecting it into the dangerous girl. Now that the girl is a human-Wither hybrid, she can now help defeat The Squids for good.
Also... Jerome may have won the Hunger Games.
Now, back to the real story!
Sky POV—
I watched as Athena hobbled out of the recovery dorms, the hobbling caused by the stitches in her stomach. She had been put in intensive-care for about six months. The Wither had torn a wound about the quarter the size a block in her stomach, probably from her body fighting the Wither Effect in the past.
And when the Wither was about to die, it slammed her into a tree, so she had a really bad concussion; she was in a coma for about two weeks.
Ouch.
It was safe to say she was badly injured when we fought the Wither, and after we killed the Wither, she just...
Well...
She kinda died at one point. But we revived her, so it's okay...
Erm... back to the... story...
While she was in the coma, Vic took the liberty of injecting the finished Wither essence and finally making her a hybrid again. She was fine with that, happy even. Honestly, she didn't care about anything. All Athena asked for was the Eye of Ender she carried with her all the time. I wondered why it was so special to her. We had hundreds in storage.
Athena smiled as she hobbled to me. "Ah! It's good to finally be healed enough to get out of the recovery dorms!" she sighed.
I nodded. "Yeah. Have you been outside yet?"
She shook her head. "No. But I really wanna smell the new spring air!"
Oh. I forgot to mention that the harsh winter finally let up, and we were allowed to have a nice, calm spring. All of Sky Army was happy about it, being able to walk outside without the cold weather forcing them to go back inside the main building. This put everyone back into a good mood: people were laughing more often than they did during the winter, plus they trained longer and harder. But there was no such thing as a free lunch...
Was there...?
No. Through all of this, The Squids were able to come from the rivers and lakes and their realm. This lead to more attacks, including with the hostile monsters. People were killed, put back into the bitter mood...
In other words: Everything was put back to normal!
Athena walked outside, taking a deep breath of fresh air in and letting it out. "Finally! This is what I needed!"
I laughed, patting her on the back. "Good to have ya back, Athena."
Marz and Noah—the two children of Herobrine—walked over. "Yo, Sky," Noah greeted. "Where's Ck and Vic? Ya know?"
I pointed to the main building. "The conference room. They're marking some stuff on a few maps. Why?"
Marz held up a sword. A Squid sword. "We found this next to the "Skyhub 2013." Blabid and Lignite are going insane."
They walked off, and I pinched the bridge of my nose. "Shit. That's the thirteenth this week."
"Thirteenth what?" Athena asked.
"The Squids have been trying to kill our friends for the past month now," I answered. "First they tried to kill Toby; then Caveman and the Dwellers; then they tried to kill Dawn..."
I paused. Dawn was nine months pregnant, making it obvious that she was carrying a child. Plus, she could give birth any minute. The Squids had no doubt figured out, only making Dawn an even bigger target than me. They were already stopping at nothing to try and kill her, killing—
"Sky?"
I snapped out of my thoughts. Snapp—one of the two leaders of Team Press Start—was holding a rolled up map in his hand. Athena was walking towards the archery-area, her old bow in hand. Snapp probably sent her over there. He unrolled the map and held it up. "Sky. I think I located a few of The Squid's hideouts. They're not big or anything, but they may hold information on finding the main base."
I took the map from his hands. There were about seven red dots spread out across the map, marking where some of The Squid's smaller bases would have been. Some were pretty far out, almost to the edge of the map. Others were really close to the Sky Army HQ. I studied them carefully.
"Holy squid shit," I mumbled. "How did you find these?"
He bit his lip. "Research."
I saw him hide the squid costume behind his back.
I laughed. "Oh my Notch! They're that stupid?"
Snapp grinned. "Fuck yeah. Chance disguises himself as one too."
I laughed again. "Shit! I knew they were stupid, but I didn't know they were stupid enough to actually not know the difference between a real squid and a fake!"
Ruby burst past me, holding a shimmering diamond sword. Sapphire was closely following her. "Ruby! Give me my sword back or you'll regret that you even touched it!"
"Never!" Ruby shouted, running towards the main building.
Sisterly love.
Snapp went back to the map. "I think we should start with extracting information from one of the bases, then going through all the bases."
I nodded. "Alright. But we should do this quietly. If they find out that we were the ones who destroyed some of their hideouts, then Sky Army is going to have another giant-ass-squid-destroying-Sky-Army-HQ-and-eating- my-friends incident."
He cocked his head. "A what?"
"Oh right. You weren't there," I mumbled. (A/N Reference to the first B.S.A.S.A. What are you going to do about it? :3)
An arrow suddenly landed at my feet, and we both yelped in surprise. Toby called from behind us: "Sorry!"
I turned, noticing how most of the archers had their backs to us. My eyes turned wide. "How did you even shoot that at us!? You're not even facing our direction!"
Toby looked back at us, a large, devilish smile on his face. "I'm just that bad."
A few of the female recruits screamed and brushed past us. Lignite was chasing them, a large grin on his face. "I'm gonna blow up the Sky Army base!" he teased.
I laughed. "Run! The creeper's gonna kill you all!" I played along.
Sure, I was upset about how there were several Squid hideouts nearby the base, but I still wanted to have fun today.
Athena POV—
I stood, just out of the sight of everyone in the Sky Army HQ. I held the Eye of Ender in my hand. Should I see my sister? I hadn't seen her in almost three months, since I was injured and it was too risky to visit her. I was under surveillance for "important reasons."
That was basically code words for: we're-gonna-be-watching-you-becuase-you-are-now- part-Wither-and-we're-making-sure-you-won't-go-an- angry-rampage-and-kill-everyone.
I shut my eyes, taking a deep breath in and letting it out slowly. The sounds of the Sky Army recruits melted away, replaced by the quiet sounds of endermen talking to each other. I opened my eyes, looking at the familiar white endstone underneath my combat boots. The dark "sky" overhead cast a dark light, just enough to see where I was going. The dark obsidian towers proudly displayed the purple crystals that healed the Ender Dragon.
As usual, I felt the all familiar burst of hot breath hit my back. I smiled. "Sorry I was gone for long, Eris."
I turned, looking at my little sister. Well, what my little sister turned into. My sister used to be human, but a hybrid like me. She was part human, part Ender Dragon. But when she died, she turned into the Ender Dragon itself. She gave me an Eye of Ender, which turned out to be a way to teleport to the End. This was how I managed to talk and spend time with my little sister.
Eris growled, nuzzling me again. I put my hand on her snout. "I was in the recovery dorms of Sky Army for a while. But I'm part-Wither again."
Her eyes twinkled with a happy purple light. I took that as a great!
I remembered the Eye of Ender, and I opened up my palm. The blue-green orb slowly drifted from my hand and over Eris' head. A mist-form of Eris as a human appeared in front of me. She smiled, and hugged me.
I was taken aback a little. I didn't know that she could touch me in her mist-form. I wrapped my arms around the mist-form of my little sister. She was cool, like a morning fog in a dense rain forest. Her form shimmered, and I let go. She looked up at me, her human-like green eyes sparkling. Good! You can finally do what all of the human race needs to happen!
I smiled. "Kill all The Squids?"
Yep!
I then winced. My abdomen started to hurt again. I had just got new stitches for the wound I got when fighting the Wither, and they hurt worse than falling into lava in the Nether. "Owowowowowow..." I mumbled to myself.
Stitches, eh? Eris asked.
I nodded. "They hurt like shit. Excuse my language."
Well, that's not going to be the worst of the pain. You're about to deal with more.
I turned my attention back to her. "W—What do you mean?"
Mist-Eris shrugged. Just... a feeling. I don't really understand.
I took a couple deep breaths, the pain starting to subside. "Um... alright. I think I gotta go."
Mist-Eris disappeared, and the Eye of Ender drifted back into my palm. I patted my hand on Ender-Dragon-Eris' snout. "I'll see you soon."
Sky POV—
Blabid and Lignite met up with the other Sky Army generals and I at Skyhub 2013. I had seen the structure only three times in the past, and I still had to say it was grander than Skyhub 3.0.
The large wooden structure reached almost 150 blocks up in the air, with up to nine rooms and watchtowers. The dark spruce wood made it hidden well during the nighttime, making it ideal for a night hide-out. There were around twenty iron blocks in T configurations surrounding the Skyhub. If there were any attacker coming, pumpkin heads would drop down onto each of them, creating bunches of iron golems. Some of our more important meetings were held here, partly because it was harder to get into than Sky Army HQ; partly because none of The Squids knew about it.
We all climbed up the wooden ladders to get inside, the interior made of iron blocks to both protect and sound-proof the Skyhub 2013. This was what Blabid and Lignite called "home."
Amazing, really.
All of us gathered in the main room, mostly in a circle: Dawn, Seto, MUDKIPZ, Sparklez, Caveman, Deadlox, Minecraftuniverse, Jerome, Ssundee, Bajan, Ethan, Toby, Markiplier, Minion, PBG, Kyrak, McJones, Ck, Snapp, Chance, iAngel, Polska, Luna, Zhubox, Kate, Sierra, Marz, Noah, Susan, Ruby, Sapphire, and Vic. Everyone was in battle gear and holding their weapons (Minus Lignite), prepared just in case The Squids decided to pay us a little visit.
Snapp walked into the middle of all the Sky Army generals, and unrolled the map from earlier. He pointed to one of the red dots, the one that was closest to the TobyTurner Head Quarters. Toby's main base camp. "This is the closest Squid hideout that we know of, which happens to be right next to Toby's base."
Toby drew his diamond sword and thrust it into the iron floor. "FREAKING NUGGET-IN-A-BISCUIT!" he yelled.
"Um... can you please remove your sword from the floor, Toby...?" Blabid asked, a little bit of fear in his voice.
Toby nodded, his jaw clenched as he pulled the diamond sword from the iron ground.
Snapp continued: "It's time to gather up a few of our recruits and send them in."
Toby raised his diamond sword, firey anger burning in his usually brown eyes. "LET THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD!"
Everyone backed away, hoping not to get skewered by our psychotic friend.
Chance took a cautious step forward, his hands up to show that he had no weapon. "Okay, Toby. I'm... uh... gonna take away the crystalline sword... okay? Nice and easy..."
"LET THE SQUIDS TASTE BLOOD!" Toby screamed, diving out of the Skyhub 2013 and dashing away.
The children of Notch all sighed. "Luna, would you...?"
Luna sighed. "Got it." She disappeared in a puff of ender particles then coming back, holding Toby's wrists tightly in her hands. His diamond sword was strapped to her belt.
"Toby, we can't go yet. We need to make a plan, gather the needed people and supplies, then, we can go," Marz explained with a sigh.
Toby grit his teeth. "But... The Audience Members...!"
"We'll get to that later, dammit!" Dawn almost shouted. "Just shut up and listen to Snapp!"
We all stared at her in shock. She hadn't been this angry in months. She had mostly been in our quarters, resting for obvious reasons. But whenever she came out, she was calm and happy. Her outburst had taken us all by surprise.
Snapp came out of the stupor first. "O—Okay... Anyways, I have a plan, and it only requires TNT, a few ender pearls, a flint-and-steel, and a few of our most intimidating people."
