Haunted Justice

Rating: K+ or T

Summary: "Cast the shadows out form sight, a final stand, a shouting cry; all the wrongs now turned to right, so fight the past, take back the night." It's time to extract vengeance…for long lost compassion. "After all this time?" "Always." But sometimes it's not so easy, especially when haunted eyes betray your secrets and even the most outstanding heroes have an extremely dark side…

Genre(s): Angst/Friendship

Fandom: Minecraft and Minecraft: Story Mode (MCSM)

Listed Character(s): Jesse, Petra, YouTubers, OC

Mentioned Song(s): Take Back the Night (Captain Sparklez)

Featured Song(s): Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day)

Jesse Variant: pale skin, male, Golden Apple

A/N: I own absolutely nothing except for my OCs and the plot.

Chapter One: For the First Time in Forever, I Finally Understand

Previously:

"Guys?" Jesse asked, his hand fumbling around in his pocket. "What's this?" He held out a flat object, a disc-like object, with a nether star almost printed on it, two crossed diamond swords behind the shining remains of a wither upon the disc.

"Whoa, what is that?" Petra exclaimed. "Lukas? Radar?"

"I don't know, Petra!" cried Lukas, examining the 'disc'. "What is that, Jack?"

"Am I supposed to know everything? I've never seen anything like that before," Jack commented. It was that moment when two YouTubers walked in through the gates. As their gaze fell upon the disc-thing, they seemed to freeze. "Y-you have one of these too?"

Jesse turned, with eyes wide in a what-the-frick shock. "Seems like it. What is this thing?" The just-returned duo glanced at each other. How could they explain the portal-key?

It was that moment when a random parrot, soaring through the air, dropped a book and a roll of paper into Jesse's hands.

"Worldly Transportation, by the Authoress," the book read.

" If you are in possession of this text, you most likely know that the world that you live in is not the only world in existence. There are many other worlds out there, some quite like your own, some perhaps quite different. For instance, there are worlds with no hills or mountains – that are just one biome and flat, worlds without anyone living in them yet, worlds with peculiar populations, et cetera. However, they are worlds nonetheless, like your home.

The many worlds are connected. In most cases, they are connected to one large ever-expanding corridor in the world called Gamer-dise, which is a type of world some may call a 'mini-game server'.

However, there are worlds with actual portals, connecting to not Gamer-dise, but other worlds. These worlds are known as Bridged Lands and the portals require a specially enchanted flint and steel to activate them.

In these worlds, there is someone to control the extra power provided by the portal, known as 'administrators', or 'admins' for short. They may the direct creator of the world, or they are simply responsible for the power. There is usually one 'admin' in such worlds, though there may be up to three. They possess disc-like object with the world's symbol on in called an 'Interworldly Homing Portal-key', or 'portkey'. Squeezing it tightly will teleport the 'admin' to another world, doing so within their own world to the corridor, in other worlds to their home world. Please note that any ex-admin cannot become an admin again after being stripped of their powers."

The two YouTubers' faces were unusually blank. How the fudge did the whoever that wrote the book explain the concept of the portal-key so accurately? (A/N: Didn't you hear the writer? It's the Authoress. Deal with it, blockheads.)

"But that still doesn't explain how Jesse got it," Petra pointed out. Then Jesse unrolled the scroll.

"Dear Jesse,

If you are reading this, you are most likely in possession of your world, Firmitudas' port-key.

Since Fred is dead, Xara cannot have her powers back and Romeo is either dead or powerless, it leaves the fact that they can hold the position of 'administrator' no longer. That leaves the major leaders of the world. Due to Champion City's destruction and her abuse of power, Stella cannot hold the title either. Therefore, you have been chosen as new 'administrator', though with limited power until you have proven yourself to be a good overall leader to Firmitudas.

I wish you well and good luck.

LL&P (live long and prosper),

M.N.

P.S. The name Firmitudas originates from the Latin word firmitudo, which means strength and stability. Make sure that the world lives up to its name, Administrator."

The message left seven mouths in the shape of 'O's. Lluna cocked her head. "How did the two YouTubers even know what the disc is?"

"Wait," Lukas said. "How do you two know what the disc is?" The llama snorted. "That's what I said!" The two pairs of green eyes were, for some reason, shadowed. Darkened. As though they were living in some wacko dystopian universe, a ghost town, a long-lost city.

But why? What was with whatever that happened to them?

"It's okay. You can trust us," Radar encouraged, as everyone else glanced at them. Despite their curiosity, they knew that privacy was vital. Then again, letting it out might lessen the burden. Twin sighs sounded as the group sat by the two houses (for some reason, fixed with magma blocks, stone and some other unsightly blocks) and the duo told their stories, with several bucket-loads of tears and over a dozen hugs in between.

"I guess it all started after we left the Mansion…"

A/N: So now they know. Oh, and if you're wondering, what happens to unstable worlds: they glitch out like in Aftermath and collapse, as well as the portal, while if the world on the other end has a portal to that collapsed Bridged Land, the other portal will disappear and there will be no admins or portkeys for the other world too. Well, in conclusion, it'll be chaotic and there'll be nothing to stop it, unless the world latches itself to an acceptable admin candidate! Don't forget to R&R!