As Jesse walked around, he spotted a hole in the wall next to a gate. He could only assume that he needed to get behind there to reach Prisoner X. There was a redstone circuit visible directly behind the hole, he just needed a lever or something to activate it.
He had already talked to Jack, and they both knew exactly who might've spawned with their inventory still intact; Stella.
She and Lluna were inside her office, not doing much of anything. That made it easier, at least. Jesse walked over and tried to talk to her.
He explained how he needed a lever, but didn't actually tell Stella why he needed it. She refused, go figure, but once she was told that the Admin was using her, she changed her mind. Jesse let her go with them once they escaped, and he recieved what he was looking for.
The stick and stone were all he needed, and everything always seemed to come back to levers. Luckily, there was a crafting table in the room, so he used that.
But when he stepped outside, a zombie wave spawned, a guard calling them out. Jesse grabbed a nearby torch on a pillar and used it to fight them off. As expected, it didn't do much damage, but it was better than punching them with his bare fists. Once all the zombies were taken care of, he ran to the redstone circuit, placed down the lever, and pulled it. The gate slid open, but just as they (Jesse, Petra, Radar, Jack, Stella, and Lluna) were about to make a break for it, the Admin appeared.
"Of course... Of course it's Jesse. Why am I not surprised?" No sign of Midnight appearing at all. No mysterious shadows or anything. He summoned the Warden, who was eating a cake.
"I'm very disappointed in you Warden." He said. The Warden very quickly and not so subtly put the cake away, standing at attention. "Sorry, I'm a bit of a nervous eater and-" He was abruptly cut off by the Admin.
"Not that! You couldn't even keep Jesse in line for one day!" The Warden looked over at Jesse. His expression was mixed, yet indecipherable. Jesse couldn't help but feel bad for him, but didn't say anything about it.
When the Admin summoned Jack, Jesse immediately knew something was wrong. Everything about the adventurer's appearance had changed, he still had the red gauntlet on, and pretty much his entire outfit was red as well.
"Now, if you want to prove to me that you are my champion, you'll pull out your sword, and attack Jesse." Now, if he had said 'kill Jesse', he would've been a lot more scared than he actually was. Still, he was pretty startled, especially when Jack followed the order.
Except when he was actually hit, it turned out to be nothing more than a ruse. He said that he was going to back up towards the Admin, then they'd both attack him. Now, they both knew it had a 99% chance of failing, but they were willing to take the risk.
They weren't lucky, that 1% chance didn't happen, and the next thing they knew, their swords were gone. And the Admin was extremely angry.
"Really? You're kidding, right? That's you're big plan?" He almost laughed while saying it, as though the very idea was stupid (it was). "Swords can't hurt me!" He seemed frustrated by something other than the matter at hand. That was something Jesse noticed since he appeared.
After quite a bit of talking, plus firing the Warden, the Admin had an idea. "Don't worry. I'll have loads of friends soon! After all..." He suddenly turned into an almost exact lookalike of Jesse. "Everyone loves Jesse, right?" Everything, from the appearance to the voice, was the same. (Yay, now I have an excuse to call him Admin-Jesse instead of the Admin).
He told Stella to come with him, and she reluctantly agreed, telling Jesse to take care of Lluna before she did.
Now Admin-Jesse seemed downright irritated about something. "Midnight, I swear to Notch..." He muttered under his breath, not daring to finish that sentence. He quickly changed his attitude. "Stella is just the beginning, your other friends will fall in line too. Lukas, Axel, Olivia, all of them. Don't worry, I'll take good care of Beacontown." Then he and Stella disappeared.
Everyone dropped safely to the ground, but Jesse was worried about Beacontown. More specifically, his friends.
But the gate was still open, and they weren't about to waste any more time. They could worry about what the Admin said later, they had to get to Prisoner X.
Now they had mostly everyone together, Petra expressed her concerns about Jack, having clearly worried about him. Jesse didn't blame her, he had too. Once they actually made it down the long hallway, someone stepped on a tripwire, separating Jesse, Lluna and Nurm from Jack and Petra. They had to jump down to actually make it to her cell, and even then, she clearly had a problem with them being there.
Eventually, she stepped out of the cell before explaining that if someone doesn't step on at least one of the pressure plates, the lava above the cell would meet TNT, and the whole place would blow up. That meant that Jesse had to leave either Nurm or Lluna behind.
About three minutes had past before he decided to leave Nurm, at his insistence. He promised they would be back.
With that out of the way, Jesse and Lluna left to find that Xara (Prisoner X) had somehow managed to get out of her straitjacket. She had actually been wearing a normal prisoner outfit underneath, thankfully. They hurried up to get out of there and meet up with Petra and Jack.
Xara had confirmed that, yes, she knew how to get out of there, but they needed to get through that maze again. So once they heard the Warden had been fired, their job became a lot easier. First, no adventure could be complete without their weapons.
Outside, the Warden was trying to ward off a bunch of angry prisoners. To make matters worse, once he saw that Jesse had freed Prisoner X, he was determined to keep his promise to the Admin, even if it meant blowing them all up to do it. However, Xara had actually cut him off midway by shooting him in the chest with an arrow.
Once they got done with the maze by climbing up, Jesse had to deal with a three headed ghast that always seemed to spawn even more normal ghasts. It took a few hits to the head before it finally died, along with some nostalgia from before with Jesse repeating one of Jack's lines.
Finally, they reached where they needed to be. Except there was one problem, it didn't go up, it went down. Jack argued, saying that everyone knew that there was nothing under the bedrock except the void. But Xara insisted. Jesse insisted. Petra insisted. Jack was finally convinced.
"Wait!"
Everyone recognized that voice, it was the one Jesse had been trying not to think about this entire time. That same high pitched voice from a girl that was literally impossible to forget. The daughter of the Admin that took his name and identity.
And sure enough, when they turned around, Midnight was standing there. "If you're planning to leave, at least take me with you." Her expression was pleading, and her hands might as well have been glued behind her. "Are you kidding me?! No!" Something similar to surprise flashed across her face.
One look at Xara's harsh glare and Jesse immediately changed his mind. Especially because he could read exactly what that meant.
If you don't change your mind, I'll change it for you.
"Fine. Come on then."
Midnight sent Xara a grateful look before she followed the others downward. Then her eyes widened.
"Are we going down to...?" She didn't even seem to care that everyone except Xara was looking at her with curiosity. Xara only sighed. "Unfortunately, yes. You'll have to see it to stop him. We won't go in though." Jesse put two and two together, after remembering that Xara mentioned another admin named Fred. He was killed in a fight between him and Romeo.
What she hadn't mentioned, was that Midnight was not only old enough to understand what happened, but remembered exactly what happened as well. Along with someone else she never mentioned that Midnight didn't seem to remember.
She wondered if he was alright.
They had just made it down the staircase before Midnight was trapped in the void again.
"Really?! That's where it ends?!"
A/N
Okay, so you might've noticed this chapter seems a little bit rushed. I kind of was rushing, so that I could get to episode four as quickly as possible. Seems like I made it too, without going overboard.
Midnight: Yes! And now the second crossover is here! At least for us.
Now all that's left to do is wait. While we are, let's get right into the reviews!
The Princess of Pink: (Oh really? Thanks Luna!) You do realize what the next poll is, right? (You better not.) / well, she's not wrong about the glitch part as you'll see in the third book. (Seriously, are you saying something under your breath?) No, you're probably just hearing things. / Yes, for quite a while. Though, trust me, he'll forgive her in episode five. (Thank goodness.)
Ellismskd24: Well, I will tell you this, he does actually have a son. Midnight just won't know yet. (What?) I didn't say anything!
Midnight: Why are you so excited?
What do you mean?
Midnight: Whenever you talk about the third book, or hear someone mention it, you start to get really excited. Like right now.
Well, I have like, a million possibilities for that, and I think I have finally got one.
Midnight: And you're not going to tell me what it is, are you?
Nope!
Midnight: Fantastic.
"Seriously! You need to leave, now!"
He seemed determined, and while she did admire him a litlle, if he got killed, she would never forgive herself. "I can't just leave you here!" He yelled.
She had enough. She raised her hand, the same one she used earlier to summon the shield, and pushed him back. Not enough to hurt, or make him go flying, but hopefully enough for him to get the point already. "Just go!"
"I care about you too much to leave you here."
She almost immediately regretted her next words after she said them.
"Well, maybe it's time for you to stop caring."
Well, that's all for now-
Midnight: Hold up, what just happened?
Nothing. Now can I do my outro?
Midnight: Alright then...
That's all for now, see you next time!
-LegendEmpress
