Wait, did Jesse just call me his friend? "Don't get used to me calling you that." Nope, nevermind.

We finally made it to the fortress, but I didn't let my guard down. "If you can get through the portal, you'll be safe!" Gabriel said. Well, I knew Jesse had the flint and steel. "Uh, guys?" Wait, he does have it right? "I must've dropped my flint and steel while we were running from that wither." So how are we supposed to activate the portal?

"We can't activate it without a flint and steel!"

"Do you have one?"

"No...I left it behind because I thought we didn't need it."

"Are you kidding me? That's one of the things you make sure you don't leave behind."

"I'm sorry..."

"It's fine, I have another way."

It felt like forever until I realized what I was supposed to do. Black lightning Midnight!

It happened again, and it activated the portal. Do my powers only work for plot convenience? Axel, Olivia, Rueben, Alexa, and Ivy were the first to run through. Lukas, Jesse, Petra, Gabriel and I were for some reason waiting. "You three, go through the portal and meet up with the others. I'll stay here and do whatever I can." Petra, no. "Petra, you need to come through the portal with us." I didn't mean to sound desperate, but I think I was. "Sorry Midnight, this is something I have to do. If anything happens, I'll meet you guys at the temple." It didn't make any difference who said it, she'd still say the same thing.

Gabriel was already stuck in the tractor beam. I am not having Petra go after him. I replaced Petra in the huge choice, I tried to help Gabriel but got stuck in a beam myself. Oh no. This was a problem, and I wasn't in control of the solution for once. If anything, I was part of the problem. Jesse isn't going to choose me, I might as well get used to having amnesia for four episodes.

To my surprise however, Jesse did choose me.

"Thanks Jesse. Gabriel's still up there!" He tried, but as always, he was slammed into Lukas and into the portal.

I saved Gabriel, and was about to run through, when Ivor did.

And Petra was running in the opposite direction.

Alexa's POV

Jesse and Lukas had fallen through, but no sign of Petra, Gabriel, or Midnight. "Where's Petra?" Axel asked. Why is she the first person he's worried about? What about Gabriel or Midnight? Lukas just looked slightly guilty. "We did everything we could." What? Is he saying...? "What are you saying?" Midnight was the only person I was worried about, not Petra or Gabriel. "Jesse, what is he talking about?" Olivia's voice rose in pitch a little. "Because it doesn't sound..." Please no. "It was chaos, there wasn't much I could do." What? Neither of them were making any sense right now. "Jesse's right." What is he talking about though? "Their all still up there." Why didn't they go through with us? It just doesn't make sense. "I got scared. Just for a second." Scared enough to not help someone on your own team, the greatest warrior of all time, and the person who helped your team win the competition by giving you a nether star? Axel walked towards him. "You got scared?" He asked. "It wasn't my fault." He's just mad at you because you're on another team, it really isn't. "You got scared and it's not your fault?!" Someone needed to stop this before Axel could knock Lukas to next month. "Back off, Axel." Thank you Olivia. That situation was starting to get out of hand. He turned back to the portal. "We gotta go back!" Was he that determined? To have a chance of dying just to save Petra? Olivia stopped him, thankfully. "No! We just have to wait." I know I'm usually not one to put myself in danger to save others, especially people I don't know, but I had to agree with Axel here. "Think about what you're walking into." Certain death? It's worth it if it's Midnight. "There's nothing you can do. You'll just end up getting yourself killed." Jesse said. Axel might've taken that the wrong way. "You don't know that! You don't know-" Lukas cut him off. "Hey, there she is!" Lukas, there's two girls up there. Your gonna have to be more specific. But yes, the portal was swirling, indicating that someone was coming through. "Come on, come on." Yes, they were coming through!

Not.

Who came through was not either of the warriors, but Ivor.

"You again."

Why was he the one to come through and not anybody else?

All of a sudden, one of the witherstorm's tentacles came through, thrashing about until it found what it was looking for -the portal- and crushed it, along with any hopes of anybody else coming through.

"Ivor." Jesse's voice was cold, and it was definitely understandable. "You ruined everything!" Hey, it was Midnight who took your stupid potion, not Jesse! "Don't pretend you don't know, theif. You took my most valuable potion..." No, it wasn't us.

Jesse walked right up to Ivor, and punched him straight in the face.

"More needless violence. It solves nothing." It solves everything. "Learn the lesson now or you will share Gabriel's fate." Does that mean he's...? "There's nothing left up there! Nothing but that witherstorm." Clever name. "Why are we wasting time talking to this jerk? We have to go and get Petra!" And Midnight, don't forget. "The girls. I saw them." Both girls or was that a typo? "What?" Please don't be a typo LegendEmpress... (And you say Midnight's the only one who breaks the fourth wall Alexa?) "While I was running through the portal I passed them. They were running in the opposite direction. Such bravery. Of course, there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. And your friends have crossed it." What? Nobody talks about Midnight like that. I swear if I was allowed to I was push him into the lava. "I'm saying their stupid." Control it. Push her back. "You're a coward." Jesse said. He was, considering Ivor ran away earlier. "Mabye... but I survived. And that's what counts." He replied. Seriously, was I the only one who was fed up with his bull-

Alexa!

Crap. I was gonna say bullcrap.

This story is rated the way it is for a reason you know.

Sorry, I can't help myself sometimes.

"There's more to life than survival." Is there? That's all I've ever known is survival. "Without survival, there is no life." That's what I was taught all my life. Then he started being useful for once. "Through that tunnel is a network of minecarts built by the Order of the Stone." He said. "It's your only way out." Can we even trust him? "We should go that way." And Axel pointed in the direction that Ivor had. "As much as I hate to admit it, he might be right." Ugh, just the thought of that is enough to make me sick. "Bravo for embracing the truth." Don't get used to it.

A noise that sounded like a crying child interrupted our totally friendly chat. Is that what I think it is?

"What was that?" Hopefully not a ghast. "I would wish you good luck, but luck won't carry you through the nether. You have my sympathies." Yeah, cause that's so much better. He drunk a potion, and disappeared.

Oh, and that noise from earlier, that was a ghast. Oh good heavens... It glared at us with dangerously red eyes. "Let's get out of here!" Axel yelled. "RUN!" Was Jesse's response.

And we did.

We came across a bunch of minecarts, conveniently one for each of us. "This must be what Ivor was talking about." Olivia said. He did say a bunch of minecarts, and we found a bunch of minecarts. No time to think, since the ghast was right behind us, and it shot a fireball that hitthe structure above the minecarts. We all jumped into one (Rueben hopping in Jesse's) and we were off.

I didn't look down. Not only was I scared of the Nether itself, we were on a one block train, which was even scarier. So much lava... "Wow. The Nether." Lukas sounded amazed, but I was trying my best not to faint. Yeah... That's a lot of lava. And fire. And other things that could burn you to death." Olivia agreed. "Olivia, your not helping." I said, and I was fully aware that I was going a few shades whiter.

"Oh no!"

Duck.

I did. Just in time too, since there was netherrack hanging from the ceiling.

You might want to keep your head down.

Another chunk of netherrack passed by.

"Oh that's a drop. That is very, very much a drop." Wait, what? "What are you talking about, new guy? What drrrrOh crap! You weren't kidding!" Axel said. "Everybody hold on!" Jess yelled.

And now I know why Midnight doesn't like rollercoasters.

Well, Legend owes me.

"Okay, so I'm not the only one seeing that we're running out of track, right?" Nope. "No!" He wasn't. "Good!" How? "Jesse! That switch! Now! Do it!" That could've been one sentence Olivia. "Oh arms don't fail me now..." He missed the switch, Axel did, Olivia did, and Lukas did. So I got it. The minecarts came to an abrupt halt, the track lowering. "Haha, wow. I thought something bad was going to happen there but, heh, I guess everything's going to be..." Jesse, don't jinx it.

He did. Horribly.

When we continued on the tracks, the minecarts split up.

And I was alone.

A/N

Ooh, we're in the Nether! We might get out next chapter, which means...

We're almost at the end of episode one!

It took a while, but we made it.

Oh, and Midnight?

Midnight: Huh?

I' e...

Midnight: Oh no.

y...

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Princess of Pink: (Oh so you 'had to' huh? Alright I totally believe you./I'm supposed to break the fourth wall. I do know everything that's going to happen after all.) That's not what she's talking about! (Moving on!/ No! I need this axe to defend myself!) From what? (None of your business!)

-LegendEmpress