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Jesse smiled to himself as Petra ran off to get her "Adventuring stuff." She sure was easy to excite when you said the right stuff. At least she was sleeping better, this was one of the first nights he didn't have any nightmares. It was pretty pathetic that, the fact he didn't have a nightmare was worth celebrating. He could of sworn though, he saw Petra's face flash concern, but he didn't notice it at first. Jesse decided against it, and didn't push the topic. Petra had enough on her mind trying to help with repairs, it has been only a few weeks. He had lost track of time, but he wasn't going to tell anyone any time soon. But they would probably find out anyways, from the time he spent in his room, people began to notice his zombie like state, trudging from building to building whenever he was out trying to help. The looks of pity from the citizens who were there during the first days of his mourning kept flashing in his mind. Perhaps staying in his room all this time was maybe not the wisest decision.

Petra grabbed her sword, and some armor that was made by Ivor especially made for her, and an enchanted sword, she called "Miss Butter." for how much of a bad guy Ivor was at the start, he knew how to make kickass armor and weaponry. Funny enough at the beginning, Petra told Jesse that she didn't like gold swords, as they were too soft. But when she thought about it, Jesse was pretty right about it being super flashy, especially when enchanted, that earned it a nice amount of staring from jealous people who dreamed of having that kind of stuff. She swung it around for good measure, smiling at it's speed, there were positives of having a light sword. Putting on the armor, she rushed back to Jesse's room, he'd probably is all armored up too! Maybe with a diamond sword! Oh, and maybe some diamond enchanted armor, or maybe the custom armor sets Ivor made! She knew he was probably so hyped! Petra entered Jesse's room and saw Jesse, still sitting in his bed. Petra facepalmed, this is gonna be complicated.

"Jesse, why aren't you in at least some sort of armor? Where's your cool flashy stuff?" Jesse just smiled sheepishly. "Well, I uh..." His response earning him an eyebrow raise from Petra. After staring for 10 seconds of awkward silence, Petra rolled his eyes. "Come on Jesse, you're putting armor on." Petra grabbed Jesse's arm and began leading him to the armory, despite his cries of protest. "Jesse, you need armor," Petra insisted as she dragged him. Jesse shook his head. "Iron sword will do just fine," he whined. "Jesse, you're being childish," Petra hissed under her teeth. "I'm not gonna have to drag your unconscious body back because a baby zombie thrashed you from behind when you weren't paying attention."

Jesse cringed. "I guess that would be kinda embarrassing..." His reluctance made Petra giggle. "That's a massive understatement. Jesse, who slayed a Witherstorm, got completely wrecked by a little baby zombie. That's a story that no one will forget, and will probably cripple your cool status, like permanently." Her reasoning made Jesse chuckle and rub the back of his head. "Alright, alright, Petra. You win,you win." He freely allowed Petra to drag him to the armory.

After a long time of arguing, Petra chose Jesse's armor and weapon for him, being fed up with his stubborn nature. He finally had enchanted armor, iron though as he didn't want to "Waste Ivor's work on a cave monster". Petra smiled at the now armor clad Jesse. "Are we ready?" Jesse nodded. "Then let's go!

Almost kicking the door open, "Lord Petra" as the cititzens called her out of fear, stomped outside. The girl tried to block the events of last nights events out of her head. She wouldn't be that weak ever again, especially Lukas seeing her cry. She didn't want his damn pity, not when he didn't give a damn for the past years after the event of the WitherStorm. She walked, borderline stomping her way outside of their home, earning her frightened cries from townsfolk who were unlucky enough to be in her way. Petra was slightly irritated now that she knew what was going on.

It was Olivia, she had found something, or made some brilliant machine or discovery this week. Petra wasn't dumb, when she saw Olivia had a bit more bounce in her step that day Petra knew something was up. That grin of hers, she was scheming something, and keeping everyone else out of the loop. Well, Petra knew that Olivia wasn't an idiot either. If she was to discover what Olivia was hiding, she'd have to be extremely smart about it. It was the reason she was walking out in BeaconTown at the moment, Petra needed time to come up with a plan, and Olivia was still in her lab at this time of the day. She'd have to be quick, perhaps when she went on a lunch break? Perhaps Petra could straight up risk when she was asleep, they all slept in the same building though, and Olivia's room was closest to the entrance of their home.

Petra cursed under her breath, it'd be easy to do it when Olivia would be on lunch, but Petra knew she'd have little time to go poking around in that little laboratory of hers. But, if she was quiet she could investigate whatever she damned pleased, as long as she kept the volume at a minimum. Petra smiled devilishly to herself, then that would be what she would do. Years of training and experience, she was pretty good at sneaking, no doubt of that. Now she'd just have to wait. Perhaps some monster slaying would help pass the time.

Petra smiled as she sprinted towards a lone zombie who was unlucky enough to stand in her way, and camped right by a lava pit too! She kicked it into the boiling lava and watched as it cooked alive. "Got another one!" She cheered, pumping her fist into the air. She turned behind and saw Jesse swinging at a zombie who had taken its sweet time to march over to Jesse, only to meet its end by Jesse giving it a good slash. She huffed. "Jesse, why are you playing so passively? Get aggressive! Into the action!"

Jesse rubbed the back of his head, with a mellow expression plastered onto his face. "Well I would, but..."

That comment earned him a look from Petra. "But...?"

"There kinda wouldn't be any monsters left. So yeah..."

Petra put her hands on her hips, eyebrows both raised and she had a snarky look. "Oh hoh! Is that a challenge Jesse?"

Jesse smiled sheepishly. "Maybe..."

The orange haired girl just smiled, and took off. "You're on!" leaving Jesse to struggle to keep up. In the end, Petra won, about 5 monsters ahead. Jesse wouldn't say, but he slowed down earlier, remembering that this cave was once him and Reuben explored, bringing a measly 13 torches, and retreated at their first encounter of a cave spider. He remembered him screaming his head off, then proceeded to grab his faithful pig and bolted. Not exactly a hero thing to do, but back then he'd attach himself to Petra at the sign of any monsters that wasn't an average one you'd run into. He didn't exactly have backbone back in the old days.

"Hey Jesse, you alright?" a voice shook Jesse from his thought process, and looked up to see Petra looking at him with concerned eyes. "You looked kinda out of it." Jesse forced a smile, and nodded. "Yeah, just a bit bummed I didn't get the most monsters." His answer satisfied Petra, and she gave him a smile. "Hey cheer up! I'm sure you can get it next time!"

Jesse nodded sadly. "Yeah, next time."

It was exactly midnight, and Petra had been waiting for this very moment. Her plan was about to go into action. She had planned, and now it was coming into action. Olivia slammed the door behind her as she retired, obviously not wanting to be bothered for the rest of the night. Petra smiled. Olivia would certainly be getting her peaceful sleep, she wouldn't hear a thing! And Olivia's lab wasn't even in her room. That was a bonus. Petra breathed in, steadying her breath. It was time to take action, and find out what Olivia was doing behind all their backs. She placed her steps in specific places on the floor, like a pattern. All those years, she'd basically memorized which parts of the floors creaked, and which ones didn't make any noise at all. Sure, maybe it was kind of a dumb thing to memorize, but it's coming handy now, right?

Placing her steps, she crept across the house, sneaking past Olivia's room, Axel's, and Lukas's. If this was the old Petra, she might of felt bad about sneaking into Olivia's private lab, well private unless she wanted a guest there. Her boots sinking into the carpet, masking the sound of her steps quite nicely. Slipping past the rooms, and arriving at the door that led to the stone staircase down, which led to the lair. "Real subtle." Petra thought venomously to herself. Olivia had changed just as everyone else, seeing herself as the most intelligent, apparently even more than Ellegaard ever since her ego had taken a hold of her.

She thanked her lucky stars it wasn't wooden stairs, the creaking would probably echo like a gunshot across the building. She softly crept down the stairs, already seeing the glow of red against the wall, no doubt redstone was at work here.

Petra walked around the corner, and saw it. Olivia's laboratory. To say Petra was impressed would be pretty accurate, (She wasn't about to admit that though) and she smiled deviously when she spotted what she was looking for. Olivia's lab notes. Instead of just wandering around trying to find the specific thing she thought was the "big experiment", she'd look through the notes. In it would be everything Olivia had done, and she'd probably list things by their importance, or express it if it was more diary like. Opening the old book, she looked at the most recent page, it's location marked by one of the corners being folded up a little before the book was closed earlier. She began to read.

I never knew portal travel could be this intense, different worlds is one thing, but completely different timelines in itself? Apparently there's another me out there, probably experimenting to her hearts content? I wish there was a way I could know where I, well the other me was doing right now? I haven't figured it out yet, and I'm not about to jump into this timeline hopping portal, I need a way to figure out where I am right now. Once I do, I'll share my knowledge with the other me. Who else would I share it with anyway? Not like there's anyone else that would appreciate or understand the stuff I'm doing here.

Petra's eyes widened at the mention of timelines. So there's another Petra out there? Perhaps it was in the future, where she was a hardcore lone warrior? That would be pretty damn cool. Smiling at the thought, Petra walked over to the prototype portal, and saw a lever on it. Simple, that's good, right? Without hesitation she flipped it, praying it wouldn't start making some awful metallic scraping noise that would wake everyone up. Luck was in her favor it seemed, as it whirred silently, and now the portal was activated.

Only now it showed green trees in an unknown area, surprising Petra a little, but Olivia's notes rang back to her. No way to figure out where everyone was? Perhaps it was like the Nether where another portal formed so someone could actually be in the Nether. A random exit location maybe...

Petra turned around to grab at the book, but even the glow from the redstone didn't completely light up the room. She felt herself slip on something and grabbed for the table in a panic, missing once, and felt her arm hit something sharp, a tool Olivia used perhaps? She'd ponder about that later, as the tool had scraped her arm, and an open would was now freely bleeding. Petra panicked, and used her other hand to cup under it to catch the blood. If a dried puddle of blood was on the floor, no doubt Olivia would notice. Backing up a little, she almost fell into the portal, but was able to catch herself with her non injured arm. She watched in panic as her blood arm was IN the portal, and yanked it out. But to Petra's surprise, it was borderline clean. The wound began to bleed again, still open, but it was as if someone had made the previous bloody mess vanish. She inspected her arm, until...

"Jesse, who slayed a Witherstorm, got completely wrecked by a little baby zombie."

Petra glanced at the portal, which glowed a brilliant white. Was that her voice she heard? Or was the blood loss so bad already that she was hearing things? She waited for something more to happen. Nothing. Petra huffed stubbornly, there was more right? Apparently not. Petra continued to wait for about 30 more seconds, before sighing and turning around to leave...

"Alright alright Petra, you win, you win."

That voice made her freeze on the spot. It had been years... but that voice...

Petra almost spun around to stare at the portal, which was morphing, and changing colors and showed... "Jesse..." Petra whispered in disbelief. Indeed it was him. Him and...Petra? Chatting in a cave, about monster slaying. Yeah, she remembered when something like that was a friendly competition, not just a way of burning steam. She quickly used her bandana to wrap around the cut, and continued to watch herself and Jesse just being friends, watched as they talked and slayed monsters together, just like old times. Olivia's notes rang in her head as she watched them enjoy killing monsters. Another me out there... could it have applied to Jesse as well? Did he somehow live through the Witherstorm? It'd certainly seemed to be that way, how else could he be talking to that version of Petra?

She noticed they'd finished their competition, and were currently chatting. She zoned out in awe at the fact that Jesse was alive, until she heard something that got her full attention.

"So, Olivia wanted us to stop by the lab today, she said she made a pretty amazing discovery. Wanna stop by?" She heard Jesse say. The other Petra shook her head. "I got a job for a Ghast tear, I'll stop by later alright?" She saw Petra say sadly. Jesse looked a bit bummed, but shrugged. "Alright, see you later." They both walked out of the cave entrance, Jesse turned in the direction of BeaconTown while the other Petra turned in the opposite. She saw her do a double take, and watching Jesse walk off before smiling to herself then walking off.

It was so little, yet so much. Seems that both Olivias had made the portal discovery. Satisfied, Petra flipped the lever, effectively deactivating the portal for now. She turned and left the lab, never getting caught. Only when she was halfway to her room, it hit her. Both Olivias had a portal, meaning... Her eyes widened. A second chance. Jesse's alive in that world, I could bring him here! And knowing Jesse, once he figured out how to use the portal, his adventuring spirit would scream at him to use it.

Which means he'd literally lead himself right to Petra's world! And she'd keep Jesse to herself, not like the others deserved another chance, how they acted? Not a chance. But she'd have to come back another night to check on him again, it seemed when it was night here, it was daytime in the other world. So she'd have to check up on him, to make sure when he planned to go through, no doubt he'd go through it soon. Satisfied with what she had found tonight, she hopped into bed and fell asleep.

Jesse jogged towards their home, he was anticipating what Olivia had to show, she seemed pretty stoked when she informed him before. He hoped that it was something pretty cool. He passed by Axel, who was kinda sleeping on the kitchen table, he chuckled to himself. Looks like everyone else had been doing stuff as well.

That thought itself stabbed a bit of guilt into him. He knew he had been moping and mourning for the past days and sometimes wandering into town which earned him odd looks, but he'd already knew that. Jesse shook his head. Why was his thoughts would always spiral down into this depressive state? He'd had a great time with Petra, Olivia was thrilled he was getting out of his room more, well then again, everyone was pretty happy he actually went outside. Yet here he was, moping after spending time with friends. He made a mental note to try to stop that, it'd probably get on people's nerves after awhile. Well not his friends, they'd always be there for him. And he was grateful.

Trying to shake the depressing thoughts out of his head, he turned the corner, and began trudging down the stairs to Olivia's laboratory. Hopefully whatever she had in store for Jesse would cheer him up.

"Jesse?" Jesse heard a voice called from the bottom of the staircase. "Is that you Jesse? I can hear you," called Olivia. "Yeah, it's me." Jesse replied, skipping the past two stairs at the bottom, hands in pockets.

"Thanks for coming, I knew you're the first person I'd check with about this," Olivia said. Jesse noticed she seemed a bit nervous about it. "What's wrong Olivia?" Jesse said, sincerity in his voice. "You seemed pretty stoked about this earlier." "Yeah about that..."

Wow, if that wasn't a half hearted attempt at dodging a question, he didn't know what was. "Yeah...about it?" Olivia rubbed the back of her head. "Well, if I messed it up, there's a slight chance I could maybe destroy a different world?" She said as if it was a normal thing. Jesse stared blankly at her for about thirty seconds. "Wow." Jesse said. Olivia had an indifferent expression. "That's it? I told you there's a possibility A whole world could be wiped from existence and that's all you say?"

Jesse had a sheepish look. "Well it's kinda a lot to take in, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Huh, a whole world?"

"Well, theoretically, theres a chance it doesn't destroy anything, I'm just theorizing this since this is probably a pretty amazing discovery, I wonder what Ellegaard would think? Maybe I should of told her first? Oh geez, what if she gets mad I didn't tell her, oh, this isn't good." Olivia began to ramble, forcing Jesse to snap her out of it.

"Olivia, relax. I'm sure she'll be thrilled at the very idea of a big discovery like, er whatever it is. Speaking of what is the discovery?" Olivia almost slapped herself, she didn't even tell him what it was! "Well, lemme explain..."

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