Chapter 1: Rumors

Rumors had been spreading, lately. I don't much care for rumors, if you know what I mean. There have always been stories about the Yogscast floating about, some of them boomed when Mitch wrote that little piece in his Hijacked story. So when Sky brought up the Yogscast at the end of our last big adventure, I started feeling like I should've been paying attention to those rumors. He probably could see it in my eyes, how kinda freaked out I was. He let the matter go, waving me off, but since then I've been kept in the dark about the matter.

Everyone knows little things about the Yogscast, little things that piece together to form a huge picture. The Yogscast is a rather large corporation, headed by Lewis or more commonly known as Xephos, a Earth born. I've got nothing against Earth, mind you, its just they have it a little better off than we do. Either way, he's one of the few people on either planets to befriend the native of Minecraftia, the dwarves. Honeydew, more commonly known as Simon, is well known as the delegate of the long forgotten dwarf society that still lies beneath the Earth. Together, these two formed a rather outrageous "company" which offers a security measure to the world. several people have joined the "company" though their names remain anonymous for their own protection.

Perhaps I'm going into a little too much detail on them. It's probably one of those things I should've brought up a long time ago, as they are legendary, just like the Sky Army. Though they lack the hybrid appearance. Back in the day, Ashley would talking about the imaginary rivalry between the two "Armies". I laughed then. I'm not laughing about it anymore.

Either way, rumor or not, I've been running around since I got back. Fixing this, helping with that, repairing this. I get practically one break a day and I take this time to sit with my friends, which I remind you I haven't seen in a while, and just enjoy their company. I haven't set foot outside of the base in nearly a month. I was already beginning to feel that something big was coming.

"Hey, Jane, lost in though, again?"

I snapped out of my thoughts, looking up at Ashley. Ashley, Fia, and Cliff. I groaned, rolling my eyes and stabbing my lunch with my fork. Cliff hummed lightly, glancing at Fia, who gave a devilish grin. Ashley took my tray from me, shoving it aside. She shoved hers away too, leaning in.

"So, you gonna tell us about what Sky talked to you about? About the Yogscast?" she purred.

"He didn't tell me anything," I rebuked. "He just suggested that the Sky Army might be meeting or working with them at some point or once working with them."

"What do you think they're working on?" hummed Fia, leaning in as well.

"Not a clue but Sky mentioned it was getting…frustrating, but like I said, that was about a month ago. Who knows what's going on now," I shrugged.

"Then ask," offered Ashley.

"Ask?" I repeated.

"Oh please, you're the main character of this story. You can ask for anything and probably get it," grumbled Ashley, folding her arms and leaning back.

"The other officers do trust you," whispered Cliff. "Especially Quentin after that hold mess."

"Don't bring that up! I'm still having nightmares about the whole thing and its merging with my nightmares about the whole Hunger Games Arena," I moaned. "A bunch of nightmares and the occasional squid encounter."

Ashley laughed a little.

"How's Seto been lately," I perked, looking over at Cliff and Fia. "I've heard he's been out a lot."

"He has," Cliff sighed before Fia jumped in.

"He keeps making us do boring stuff to keep us busy while he's doing the cool stuff. He won't even tell us where he goes off to!"

"Seto is capable of teleporting anywhere he pleases with the right coordinates," nodded Cliff. "I think I'm getting close to being able to mimic that…"

"Flying is faster," yawned Fia, nibbling at some food.

"If I could, I would," sighed Cliff, smiling lightly. She slowly stood up, picking up her tray. "We really should get back to work. Seto wants us to try our hand at spell casting."

"He found something called the Arcane Compendium," whispered Fia before following Cliff out.

We waved them off. The second they were out of sight, Ashley practically leaned completely over the table with this huge grin slapped across her face. Obviously the conversation wasn't over yet. I rolled my eyes, leaned back and got ready for one of her conspiracy ramblings I hadn't heard since the Sky Army proved to be true.

"Well, go on," I motioned.

"Do you think the Yogscast are real? Working with the Sky Army even?" Ashley beamed.

"I believe they exist, well how could they not be when Sky brought them up. As for if they're working with us, that's open to debate, seeing as Sky is frustrated with them," I offered.

"Do you think some of the rumors are true? Like Xephos is from Earth and Simon is some dawrf? Or that Sips Co is apart of it!?" I could see the cogs turning in her head, preparing more and more stories.

"How should I know!?" I laughed.

"I said, what do you think, silly!" she giggled, leaning back. "Do you think any of its real?"

"After every thing I've seen, I'd believe in anything," I nodded. "I've got work to do, Ashley. I've been busy lately."

"You've got easy jobs compared to mine," she sighed, slumping in her chair. "I'm helping with training."

"Isn't Jerome and Mitch helping?"

"When they can," she yawned. "Lots of meetings lately. Lots of meetings for officers only."

"Sorry. I've been doing Ian's job a lot, lately. Even a little bit of Quentin's though the other day he took it back," I offered. "I've been a lot of odds and ends."

"Everyone has. Officers have been up to something lately. Meetings and junk and conversations!" She sounded peeved.

"Hope it isn't something that'll bite us in the butt later," I pleaded.

"Everything bites us in the butt later! We're the bloody Sky Army! The world hates us!" she shouted.

"Quiet down!" I gasped, leaning over. "Just relax. I'm sure its nothing. We've had a lot problems around her lately but we've gotta be able to have a break here soon, right?"

"Yeah, maybe," she sighed. "I gotta go back to training. I think I'm gonna do an old training on the job bit. I like new kids. Reminds me of back then."

She stood up and left. I noticed a few other leaving, probably those recruits she was talking about. As for me, I had some guard duty and then some mild clean up and report filing to round up my day. I stood up, stretched and headed off. I was sure hoping this wasn't going to bite us in the butt like everything else. All I could hear was Ashley saying we're the Sky Army and everything gets us.