I do not own Minecraft Story Mode or any of the characters. I didn't actually know that story mode 2 was a thing so we're going to pretend this takes place after episode 8 of the first game. It's where I got Petra's armor though.
Time Off
"I'm never letting him touch the atlas again."
"Seconded."
"The flint and steel either."
"Yeah, I think I'll keep those with me instead."
Inside of the New Order of the Stone's treasure room, Jesse carefully tucked the flint and steel away in his pocket. They had just returned from a third trip to the Portal Network, chasing after Ivor, who had stolen the atlas and its accompanying key for a second time. Jesse rubbed the inside corners of his eyes tiredly as the others looked around, making sure nothing else had been stolen by the less than stable member of their group.
"So, what do we-" Lukas was cut off by the door being kicked open by the same member they had just been talking about.
"Adventure!" Ivor shouted.
"No Ivor!" Jesse snapped. "We're exhausted! We've been running around that Portal Network for days. Heck, we had to go and play those ridiculous games again just to save you this time. And now, I'm once again missing a sword. We're done. We're taking a long weekend. No adventuring, no portal network, nothing. Just three days of rest, relaxation, and me making a new enchanted diamond sword. Again."
"But there are so many worlds to explore," Ivor said.
"Not today there aren't," Jesse said as they walked past him. "For the next three days, all there is is time off. Oh, and as added insurance..." He flipped a switch on a wall and all of the treasure stands rose into the air several blocks before cages dropped over the treasure. Then, the switch sank into the wall, an iron block rising in front of it. "I'll unlock them again once we start work again."
Then, he walked out, Petra, Axel, and Lukas following them. They walked out into the city and Jesse sighed, rubbing his eyes again.
"Yup, your first day off is going to be spent sleeping," Petra said. "I'll stop by tomorrow with diamonds and enchanting books."
Jesse nodded, smiling. "Thanks Petra. I'll see you guys tomorrow."
Axel and Lukas both nodded and Jesse walked away from them, out of the city and back to the treehouse he had once shared with Reuben, now only his. He lay down on the bed for the first time and what felt like forever, staring at the ceiling before looking sideways to the picture of himself, Axel, Olivia, and Reuben. They were standing in front of one childish build or another, he couldn't remember which, but it had seemed so awesome then. Now, he couldn't even tell what it was supposed to be. He rolled over, closing his eyes and forcing himself to sleep.
Jesse opened his eyes, seeing storm clouds above him. Before him, burned black, was a spire of stone. He fell to his knees, staring at the bodies scattered around the base of it. Reuben, Axel, Olivia, Em, Ivor, Lukas, even Aiden. He stumbled forward, looking around. No Petra. Where was she? She had to be there. Maybe she was still alive. Maybe he could save her.
He looked up at the top of the spire and felt his heart stop. She was suddenly there, chained to the spire by her wrists and left hanging, several arrows and swords sticking out of her.
"Petra!" Jesse shouted, scrambling up the spire.
Her head rose slowly and he looked up at her, freezing as terror swept through him. Here eyes had been gouged out, blood running down her cheeks.
"Jesse," Petra said, voice frail and hoarse. "Why? Why didn't you save us? You left us. Where were you?"
"No, no no no!" Jesse stammered, falling backward off the spire, his suddenly moving and eyeless friends grabbing him.
"Why didn't you save us Jesse?" they began to ask, almost chanting the question.
"No!" Jesse shouted. "I didn't know! I didn't know!"
"Jesse!" Petra called out from above him, drawing his attention to her as she pulled one of the swords out of herself. "You left us Jesse."
"No!" Jesse shouted, sitting bolt upright, cold sweat drenching his skin and bed.
he stared across his tree house at the other wall, mind struggling to figure out what was going on. Suddenly, a knock echoed through the tree house and he shouted in fear, throwing himself away from the sound. A thunderous crash was his response as the trap door all but exploded inward, Petra scrambling through, sword drawn as she looked around.
"Jesse?" Petra blinked. "Are you...Are you okay? What happened?"
Jesse stared at her, mind slowly beginning to orient itself again. He swallowed hard, slowly standing on rubbery legs. He was aware that his pants were wetter than they should be for just sweat, but he ignored it.
"S-Sorry," Jesse said. "Just...Just a nightmare."
"Are you alright Jesse?" Petra asked. "You...um..."
He looked down, staring at the wet spot in the front of his pants and traveling down his legs. "Oh. My bad. i'll be right down. Just gotta clean up and change."
"I...Jesse...You're starting to worry me," Petra said.
"I'm fine," Jesse said, forcing a smile. "Like I said, just a nightmare."
Petra nodded slowly before walking over, hugging him.
"Don't scare me like that again, alright?" Petra asked.
"I won't," Jesse said.
Petra pulled back, nodding, then walked to the trapdoor and climbed down. Jesse walked to the bathroom, cleaning up quickly then changing into clean clothes and his armor. He threw his bedding in the dirty clothes basket and climbed down out of the treehouse, walking over to Petra.
"You ready?" Jesse asked.
"Are you?" Petra countered.
"Sure," jesse smiled. "It's just a shopping trip."
Petra nodded slowly before turning, following him as he walked toward town. They didn't need much. Mostly they just needed to borrow an iron pickaxe again. As much as they had saved up what they could, they were a diamond short. After about three minutes of negotiating, Jesse had settled on a deal for the pickaxe and they were off to the mines. They had their own personal mine all to themselves, courtesy of them being the only ones to know how to find it. Within a few minutes, they were standing in the bottom of the mine, surrounded by blocks of every kind of gemstone imaginable. Jesse sighed, starting with diamond. Petra started on emeralds. After a few minutes, they moved on to redstone and lapis lazuli respectively. Then iron and gold. Finally, they took what they had found and walked back to town, turning in the pickaxes and what Jesse had promised. Five of every kind of gemstone and metal. Once they had turned it all in, they walked back to Jesse's treehouse. He walked over to the crafting table, setting a stick and two diamonds on it, forming his new sword before also setting on a stick and two emeralds, just for laughs. The combination formed and emerald sword and Jesse blinked, staring at it.
"Those are a thing?" Petra asked.
"Looks like it," Jesse shrugged, just as surprised as her, having expected nothing to happen.
He took the swords to the enchanting table, adding the usual enchantments. Unbreaking, Sharpness, and Knockback. Once both were enchanted, he stood, turning and holding the emerald one out to Petra.
"You're giving it to me?" Petra asked.
"It's got to be stronger than that gold one you always use," Jesse said.
"True," Petra mused. "Thank you. Really."
Jesse nodded and Petra glanced at the trapdoor before hesitating.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Petra asked. "I know you had a nightmare, but...You've seemed out of it all day. I'm really worried about you Jesse."
"I'm alright," Jesse smiled. "I'll be fine."
Petra sighed and nodded, hugging him. "If you ever need to talk, I'm here for you."
Jesse nodded, hugging her back for a moment before letting her go as Petra turned, leaving the treehouse. Jesse stood there for several long minutes before lying down in bed. However, try as he might, sleep refused to visit him. Finally he rolled out of bed, walking to his storage chest and beginning to pull out materials. As he worked, his dream, specifically the images of all of his friends corpses, replayed through his mind. Finally, he was finished. He set his creations aside and sighed, rubbing his eyes. He was exhausted, but he knew he wouldn't sleep still. Instead, he decided to make improvements. So, he headed back to the mines. A few minutes later he was at the bottom and began to clear it out, breaking and collecting everything, leaving nothing behind. After a few hours, he left the mine as the sun was beginning to rise and returned to his treehouse. He returned to work, hammering the gemstones and materials into place one after another. Finally, he set the last project aside just as the someone knocked on the newly repaired trapdoor.
"Jesse!" Lukas's voice called out. "You in there?"
"Yeah," Jesse responded, stretching and yawning, walking over and unlocking the trapdoor, letting him in.
Lukas stepped into the treehouse and stopped, staring at Jesse's projects. "Jesse...what...where did you..."
"I made them," Jesse said. "Last night."
"How long did it..."
"All night," Jesse said. "I couldn't sleep."
Lukas blinked in surprise just as Jesse held out a suit of armor for him. It was similar to the armor he had worn during the first Portal Network adventure, except with obsidian woven into the jacket itself, iron gauntlets and pauldrons, and diamond leggings. As Lukas was staring at it, Jesse also handed him an enchanted obsidian sword.
"How did you...make these?" Lukas asked.
"I had to go through a few diamond pickaxes, but actually making it was simple," Jesse shrugged. "Armor in the middle and obsidian around the outside."
Lukas stared at it for a while longer before putting it all in his inventory. "Thank you so much. But...why?"
"I figured you guys might appreciate an upgrade," Jesse shrugged.
"What about you?" Lukas asked. "Are you going to upgrade Ellegaard's armor?"
"No," Jesse said. "It's already heavily enchanted, and has plenty of solid materials in it. It's fine as is."
Lukas nodded, and Jesse packed up the rest of it, walking to the trapdoor and climbing down, making sure to bring his own armor and weapons with him.
"Hey there you are," Axel said. "It's time to go man."
"Okay," Jesse said. "When we get wherever we're going, I have some stuff to give all of you."
Axel looked confused for a moment before nodding. He turned, walking away and Jesse followed, Lukas just behind them. After a few minutes, they reached the Treasure Hall where the others were all waiting.
"There you are," Em said. "It's about time."
"What kept you?" Olivia asked.
"You didn't sleep, did you?" Petra asked, worry thick in her voice.
"No," Jesse said. "I was too busy."
"Doing what?" Petra asked skeptically.
Jesse walked over to the armor stands at the back of the room, taking the armor he had made out and hanging them up one at a time. First, Olivia's. Hers was a Iron with diamond plating on the shoulders, chest, abdomen, knees, shins, elbows, forearms, and hands, including knuckle guards. There was also redstone running through the armor and a pair of specially made goggles that used redstone for night vision, zoomed vision, and thermal vision. With it was a bow made from diamond and iron with a string that was a weave of string and iron, making it much stronger for more range. Olivia stared at the armor as he moved on.
"Is that...mine?" Olivia asked.
"Yes," Jesse said, already laying out the next set.
Next was Axel's, only barely staying on the armor stand. His was entirely emerald, consisting of thick plate mail chest plate, leggings, elbow pads, gauntlets, and a pair of enormous diamond swords more than double the size of a normal one, created especially for him. Em's was similar, but with a helmet, one similar-sized sword, and one axe with a blade on each side that was about double the size of a normal axe head and rounded, rather than flat.
"Whoa," Axel breathed.
"Awesome!" Em gaped.
Lastly, Jesse set out Petra's. Everyone stared at it in amazement. Firstly, it had an obsidian weave shirt as flexible as cloth but as strong as iron armor with short sleeves, obsidian boots as strong as diamond, a diamond chest plate with a diamond pauldron on the left side, diamond shorts, an obsidian weave glove on the right hand, and an obsidian weave sleeve on for her left arm, like she wore at the start of their first adventure. She stared at her armor for a long moment before walking over, resting her hand on it, the gemstone glowing slightly in response to her touch.
"It's enchanted?" Petra asked.
"Yes," Jesse said. "They all are. Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection, Feather Falling, Projectile Protection, Respiration, and Unbreaking."
"Wha...how did you get all of those on these without them breaking down?" Petra gaped.
"Yeah, that shouldn't be possible," Lukas agreed.
"Obsidian has properties allowing them to take on more enchantments safely," Jesse said.
"This is...incredible!" Petra gaped. "Jesse, thank you so much!"
She hugged him and he hugged her back. After a moment, she stepped back before turning to the others. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to go and change before we head over."
The others nodded in agreement, grabbing their armor and weapons and running to their separate changing rooms, Lukas doing the same. A few minutes later, they returned, all wearing their new armor and smiling.
"This feels awesome," Axel said. "I've never had emerald armor before. Thanks dude."
"Yeah no kidding!" Em agreed.
"You're welcome," Jesse nodded. "So, where are we going?"
"Wait, Lukas didn't tell you?" Petra asked. "They made a movie about us! We all got free tickets to opening night!"
"And, I'm guessing that's tonight," Jesse said.
Petra nodded, smiling. "It's only our adventure with the Wither Storm, though, so Em's not going to get any screen time. Next movie though."
"Did they follow Lukas's book?" Jesse asked.
"That's what they said," Lukas nodded. "The next movie will probably be more accurate than this one, but at least this one will show how we all started, and how we worked together to defeat the Wither Storm."
"Ten diamonds says it has a scene of me going nuts with my enchanted sword against it from the outside," Jesse said, looking to Petra as they walked out.
"It wouldn't be a decent movie without it," Petra said. "The real bet is, ten diamonds says you do basically everything alone while the rest of us play fan club in the background."
"Oh you're on," Jesse grinned.
They walked into town, heading to the theater and sitting down. After a couple of minutes, the movie screen lit up and the well-beyond-packed room fell silent. On screen, the movie opened up with a scene of Jesse training with his wooden sword in a very, very complex mix of obstacles and dummies, fighting better on-screen than he could in reality. Jesse grinned. He liked the idea, though it would take time to build something like that. And Olivia's skill with redstone. Soon, it introduced Reuben, Jesse's faithful pig friend who was introduced by tackling Jesse out of the way of a trap-gone-wrong, saving his life. Jesse nodded at that, liking the movie so far. Next, Axel and Olivia joined in, the three discussing what type of monster was scarier, creepers, Endermen, or zombies. Finally, they reached the festival and proceeded to rapidly and easily build an Enderman statue that not only had purple fireworks exploding around it for effect, but also had the ability to watch people as they walked past. Jesse grinned. That would have been awesome.
Finally, the Ocelots were introduced, having Aiden and Lukas together spill the lava. Everyone frowned at that. But, Jesse managed to build a wall to protect his build, diverting the lava into the Ocelots' build instead, before chasing after Reuben, whose Ender Dragon costume had caught fire. He chased him into the woods where he seemingly effortlessly battled hordes of zombies and skeletons, the skeletons somehow not chopping straight through the wooden sword using their iron ones. Then, finally, Jesse's sword snapped just in time for Jesse to be stabbed by a skeleton. Jesse frowned. he had a feeling he knew what would happen next. Sure enough, enter Petra, who used her iron sword to massacre any monsters still around them before carrying Jesse back to her hideout. There, she bandaged his wound, and as Jesse was unconscious, spent several hours tending to him and making sure he was alright. Jesse instantly saw where the movie was probably going to take that later. He glanced at Petra and saw the same cogs turning in her head.
Once the movie version of Jesse woke, Petra gave him a diamond sword and they left the cave, fighting their way through dozens of monsters together until they reached town again, finding that their build had, obviously, won, and the Ocelots had miraculously escaped injury. Then, it was time for Jesse and Petra's deal with Ivor, who somehow came out even creepier on the big screen. After that went south, came the Wither Storm, with hauntingly amazing graphics and accuracy, including the part where Lukas froze when Petra and Gabriel were grabbed and Jesse having to choose. As expected, he saved Petra, who then shoved both him and Lukas through the portal just ahead of a tentacle, which somehow seemed to be sharp as it cutting her arm as it dove through the portal was what infected her with Wither Sickness.
Jesse sighed, rubbing his eyes before sipping at his soda as he watched the movie. It went on to detail his recruitment of Ellegaard with surprising accuracy, followed by a scene of Jesse having to save both Olivia and Ellegaard both by carving his way through dozens of tentacles. Then, there was the tearful reunion of Jesse and Petra, including a longer-than necessary hug and some blushing. Next, there was a scene of the gang meeting Magnus, then of Magnus and Ellegaard's less-than-friendly reunion. From there, the gang went after Soren and things became, understandably, a bit unfocussed. The recreation of the End was decent, the recreation of Soren's recreation of the world...less so. But, they did a decent job with the Endermen chase, and again an amazing job recreating the Wither Storm fight and subsequent revival and chase. Then, finally, the movie reached the point at which the gang, now including Gabriel and without Ellegaard after a tear-jerker "surprise" death, stayed at a cave to rest. At this point, the full extent of Petra's sickness was revealed as she secretly began to puke up something thick and black when alone.
Jesse looked to Petra who shook her head.
"Never got that far along," Petra shrugged.
In the movie, Jesse expressed his worry for Petra's condition, Lukas and Jesse had a...disagreement regarding whether or not she was okay, which came off a bit more as Lukas being jealous of what was painfully obvious between Movie Jesse and Movie Petra, before Jesse agreed to allow Lukas to go and find his old friends. Then, the movie followed the rest of the gang as they went to the Far Lands, which were, admittedly, difficult to recreate. Instead of a bunch of floating islands and Jesse taking the top of the maze's walls, he had to go through a complex series of ridiculous parts of the maze including floating islands, places where gravity was so skewed that he had to go through sections of inverted gravity, normal gravity, multiplied gravity, and even no gravity, sections where he had to fight dozens of monsters, alone, and a sections where water fell upward from a pond endlessly. Once he had taken the water to the top, he found himself at the entrance to Ivor's lair. He and the others regrouped there and quickly made their way through Ivor's twisted, yet accurate, recreation of the original Order of the Stone's Treasure Hall, and the "shocking" revelation of the Order being frauds. Then, Ivor gave Jesse a new enchanted diamond sword and they left to fight the Wither Storm.
Sure enough, the fighting began with a few minute long scene of Jesse running around on the Wither Storm's body, fighting things from spontaneously growing tentacles to Withers and Wither Skeletons that simply spawned from the Wither Storm's skin. It was a frightening thought, and Jesse could see how the fans, while knowing it was a load of crap, loved the scene. Finally, Jesse entered the Wither Storm through a hole the Endermen had made and found the Command Block, attacking it only for the Wither Storm to somehow invert its insides. At the same time, it caught and swallowed Reuben, allowing him to inevitably help Jesse once Jesse was captured by a tentacle. At this point, Jesse found himself clenching his pant legs tightly. The scene was perfect. A nearly one hundred percent accurate recreation of the event. Jesse was captured, Reuben ran along the tentacles to return the sword. The tug-of-war match between Jesse and the Wither Storm's head. Jesse felt a hand slip into his and glanced over, seeing Petra giving him a concerned look. He forced a smile and looked back at the screen, watching as Reuben fell in slow motion. He wasn't entirely sure if the one he was watching was a memory or the movie. Then, the movie Jesse destroyed the Command Block falling through the same hole. He splashed down in the water and swam to the shore, being met by his friends but asking only one thing: "Where's Reuben?"
Jesse then heard his best friend's cries of agony and looked around, seeing Reuben laying on the edge of a cliff, less than one full block from the edge, from safety. Jesse closed his eyes, trying to shut out the image only for the memory to play instead. And yet, the words matched. Of course, the one thing they get right would be that. Finally, the scene ended and Jesse opened his eyes, fighting back the tears as he watched the movie versions of them set up camp for the night before heading back. Everyone but Petra and Jesse eventually left to help the victims of the Wither Storm, now cured of their Wither Sickness and Jesse instantly saw what was coming. Sure enough, Movie Petra showed that she was cured and thanked Jesse, who responded by saying he was just glad she was okay. Then, the two shared a kiss and the screen faded to black. When the picture returned, the gang was in front of the entire town, being introduced by Gabriel, who admitted the original Order's mistakes before introducing the New order of the Stone, receiving thunderous applause as Axel and Olivia both struck "heroic poses" and Petra and Jesse kissed again, the screen freezing with that before going black and rolling credits.
Jesse was out of his seat and then out of the building long before anyone remembered they were in the building, Petra hot on his heels and the others following quickly. Sure enough, by the time they reached their Treasure Hall, there was a massive crowd of fans screaming about Jesse's fighting skills and asking if they were really a couple, some simply shouting for them to kiss. Axel and Em cleared the way through for them and they hurried into the building, closing and sealing the doors behind them before retreating to the upper floor where they wouldn't be bothered if they stood in the window.
"Well, that was...awkward," Petra said, looking around at the others, noticing Jesse was standing away from the others, staring out the window in silence. She walked over, setting a hand on his shoulder. "You alright?"
"I just...miss him," Jesse said.
"I know," Petra said. "I should have known that scene would hit you hard."
"By the way," Jesse said. "You owe me ten diamonds."
"Yeah, I guess I do," Petra snorted. "Twenty if we count both deals."
"Nope, just ten," Jesse said. "Your character saved mine, so there was no fan club."
"Fair enough," Petra said. "So, how do we get out of here to the Portal Network tomorrow? I so do not want to have to answer questions about how many times we've kissed."
"No kidding," Jesse grimaced. "Fortunately, Olivia's a step ahead of you. Olivia, is it finished?"
"It is," Olivia nodded. "The tunnel comes out in the old Order of the Stone's HQ. From there, it's only a couple of hours to the Portal Network."
"Awesome!" Petra grinned. "I guess we're staying here tonight, then."
"Yup," Jesse nodded, sighing. "I'm still exhausted from last night, so I'm going to sleep now. I'll see you guys tomorrow."
"Night," everyone said.
"Sweet dreams," Petra smiled.
"Thanks," Jesse smiled back before laying down and closing his eyes.
He wouldn't be having any good dreams after seeing the scene with Reuben's death, but it was good to hear anyway.
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