It was about mid-afternoon when they finally all re-grouped in the living room. Mainly because Cassie, Aiden, Harper, Ellegaard, and Olivia had been showing off the discovered rooms that they'd found and they'd all been poking around the places, being careful not to move stuff too much. They'd only done it for about an hour before they decided they should try to squeeze one last episode into the day.

So now Jesse was sitting on the floor again, Lukas's arm having automatically gone around her. Not that she minded; it was actually kinda nice... anyway, Reuben was sitting in her lap, Petra was leaning against Jace, and Axel and Olivia were pretty much curled up on the floor next to each other.

Petra had pulled Maya aside earlier and talked to her. While Maya had declined the offer to sit with them, she HAD moved to the armchair Petra had vacated. She could practically feel Aiden's glare burning into the back of her skull. Gill had joined her after a bit of deliberation, leaving Aiden alone on the couch.

Okay, well, not exactly. Cassie and Winslow had migrated over to the seat, leaving the YouTubers with a little more wiggle room.

Or, well, that was the reason Cassie had given... they weren't sure if that was the actual case. Whatever the case, the scowl on his face faded a little bit when he was sitting next to her.

The Order had rearranged their own seating arrangement themselves. Soren and Gabriel were now sitting on one side, and Magnus and Ellegaard were sitting together on the other side.

Mevia finally wrestled the remote away from Hadrian and pressed the play button. The screen faded to black, and Jesse's voice spoke again, "Previously on Minecraft: Hybrid Mode."

The soul sand, the Command Block, and the two Wither Skulls from the first episode appeared as the narrator took over once again. "Everything in the universe starts out as just a block." Ivor tipped the Wither Skull into place on the Soul Sand T. The two of them were thrown off the stage by the force of the blast, and the Wither rose up, the Command Block ensnared in its rib cage.

"What comes of those blocks..." The Wither floated up over the screaming crowd as they fled the room, the hybrids and Gabriel staring up at it with wide eyes. It changed to the glass dome above the hall, shaking and cracking. "Is up to those who wield them." The dome shattered and imploded. Long, black tentacles snaked out first, before an inky mass of black followed. "And in every block, there lies the potential to create..."

The Witherstorm's three heads slowly rose up, one by one, eyes flaring to life and each head giving off a deafening roar. "Or destroy."

Now Jesse was climbing up through the trapdoor into the wool world, shielding her eyes from the brightness. "Our hybrid heroes have travelled far and wide in search of the Order of the Stone." Olivia followed, wincing a bit at the bright light herself. Now it changed to the hybrids and Soren jumping into the minecarts in Soren's loot room. The walls slammed shut behind them as the minecarts raced along the redstone powered tracks. And now Jesse was floating in the air right in front of the Witherstorm's middle head, pushing the Formidi-Bomb towards it. "And a way to stop the Witherstorm for good."

The Witherstorm opened its mouth, and the bomb exploded right in its mouth, sending Jesse flying. Now they were back in Soren's library, under the effects of Ivor's Splash Potion of Slowness as he walked past Jesse and through the gap in the bookshelves.

"But even well-laid plans can go awry..." Ivor turned around, smirking at that. The bookshelves slammed shut on his face. Now the hybrids were climbing up the long staircase after Soren. Jesse turned to see Petra, who was falling behind, looking up at her tiredly. "The strong can grow weak..."

Jace gave Petra a gentle squeeze as the redhead let her head drop.

The screen changed once again to show Ellegaard, lying on the ground, staring blankly at the blood covering her hand, blood coating her side. "And beloved heroes can be compromised."

Magnus silently squeezed Ellegaard's hand. The redstone engineer didn't look around at him, but a faint smile came over her face as she squeezed back.

With a muffled thud, one of the Witherstorm's heads slammed into the ground. The screen scanned the monster's massive corpse, before switching to show Jesse racing back to Gabriel as blocks swirled around them in a maelstrom of chaos. "And although some glimmer of hope may remain..."

Gabriel turned back slowly, discolored eyes wide with confusion. The Witherstorm's ribs touched down onto the Command Block, head lifting itself up and giving a growl as it slowly rose, followed by its two smaller brethren. "The threat to this world, to its very existence..." Jesse and Reuben backed away from it in horror, Jesse's topmost set of arms going to her mouth, before the screen abruptly went black. "Is far from over."

The screen remained black for a moment, before coming back in to the sounds of chaos and screams of people getting sucked back into the Witherstorm.

"Wait- but those people just got out!" Lizzie exclaimed.

"That must be terrifying," Em muttered. Clutch grunted in response.

Jesse was staring at Gabriel in shock. The warrior stood there, looking terrified and bewildered as he surveyed the area about him. "Where- where am I?" he asked. "What's going on? What is all of this?" His nose wrinkled slightly. "And what's that awful smell?"

Jesse shook her head, still staring at him. "Are you okay?" she finally asked, after a moment.

Gabriel stared at her for a moment. "I... I have no idea. Who are you?" and he backed away a step, looking wary of her.

Soren wrapped an arm around Gabriel's shoulders and squeezed a bit. Magnus leaned into Gabriel, dragging Ellegaard with him and making her roll her eyes a bit. Gabriel looked at his friends for a moment, before a half-smile made its way over his face and he turned back to face the screen again.

"Jesse!"

Jesse's head snapped up at the desperate shout. The screen zoomed in to show Axel charging into the storm of debris, looking around desperately as he searched for the girl. "Jesse, where are you?!"

"Where's everyone else?" Maya asked, eyes narrowing in worry.

"Axel probably went back for Jesse. I'm sure we'll be fine," Petra said quickly, raising a placating hand.

"Say something, Jesse!"

Jesse took a deep breath before screaming through the chaotic noise. "AXEL!" she yelled, pushing out the sound as loudly as she could. She paused and glanced back at Gabriel, who was blinking uncertainly at her from a yard away. She made a soft 'tch!' sound and flicked her wrist, a strand of silk shooting out and wrapping around his wrist. He stared at it uncomprehendingly for a moment before he was nearly yanked off his feet as Jesse retracted him to her, seizing ahold of his wrist, before racing over towards Axel. "WE NEED SOME HELP OVER HERE!"

Axel's head snapped towards her, barely able to make her out through the debris and smoke and chaos, and he ran towards the girl. "Then help is on the way!"

Jesse's lower arms scooped Reuben up, and she quickly fired a shot of string that jerked them to the top of the crater, landing hard on her side and Gabriel landing awkwardly on his back. Axel skidded to a stop in front of them, eyes wide. "No way! You found Gabriel?"

Gabriel frowned in confusion. "Who's Gabriel?"

"Oh Notch, please don't say that again," Soren muttered.

Jesse glanced back at the Witherstorms, eyes widening in horror. The screen switched to show that each body had two new heads on each body, each with its own eye and own tractor beam. The spider hybrid whipped back around to face Axel. "We have to get out of here!" she cried out.

Axel nodded and whirled around. "C'mon!"

Jesse quickly flicked Reuben onto her back, severing the string that was connecting her and Gabriel, before dropping to all eights and scuttling across the ground at a speed that Gabriel was struggling to keep up with.

She lunged after Axel past a huge mound of dirt of stone, the three of them skidding to a halt behind the makeshift wall. Olivia bleeped into sight as Jesse switched Reuben around so she had him in a hug as she got upright, and threw her arms around Jesse in a tight hug. "Jesse, you made it!" she called out, voice filled with relief.

"And..." Lukas's eyes widened. "Gabriel?"

Petra's head snapped up at that. "Did you say Gabriel?"

Before any other comment could be made, an indigo tractor beam yanked the makeshift wall into the air, making them all scream and sprint away, running away from the three Witherstorms.

"Run, f**kers, run!" Cassie yelled in a panic. She blinked at the mildly shocked look she received from the audience. "What? I curse a lot, okay?"

Abruptly, an Enderman bleeped into existence right in front of Jesse, who put on the brakes and skidded to a stop, coming to a stop so close to the monster that she was practically right up against it.

But it didn't acknowledge her at all. Just walked calmly past her towards the Witherstorm. Jesse blinked at that, before deciding not to press her luck, and running after her friends. She came to a stop near where Soren had come to a stop near a tree, staring back at the Endermen with an agonized expression. "What's up with these Endermen?!" she shouted to him.

"I have absolutely no idea. Those Endermen are running the wrong way. They'll be killed!"

"You'll be killed if you just keep standing there!" Stampy shouted as if onscreen-Soren could hear him.

Lukas came sprinting back over. He tried to come to a stop, but wasn't able to manage it as he literally plowed him, Jesse, and Reuben to the floor in a heap. "Soren?!" he cried, quickly disentangling himself from the pile.

"I can't just stand by and watch. I'd be condemning them to death!"

Jesse put her hands up placatingly. "They'll be fine!" she assured him. "They can just teleport away!"

Soren opened his mouth onscreen to protest, but then paused. A few seconds passed before he shut it again, worry still evident in his eyes as he seemed to have gotten the logic of that statement.

A fireball slammed into the tree they'd been standing under. Letting out startled screams, the three of them took off like rockets. Horses, creepers, zombies all ran next to them as they fled as well. In that one moment, mobs and humans alike had a single goal- to escape the Witherstorm.

"Jesse, wait!"

Jesse skidded to a stop at the cry and turned to look at Lukas, who was staring behind him with a horrified expression. "They're falling behind!"

Jesse turned to look. Sure enough, Axel was trying to help Petra, but he could only move so fast without having Petra fall right off his back. Olivia was teleporting with Ellegaard, so it wasn't much of a problem, but Ellegaard looked as if each teleportation made her feel worse and worse- her eyes were half-lidded now, and she was making incoherent mewling sounds, so Olivia mostly just had to run along. Not that it was really helping; the jolting didn't seem to be helping Ellegaard either. Some rain had started coming down, but it was just making both Axel and Olivia slower.

"Oh Notch oh Notch oh Notch," Dan babbled, sitting on the very edge of his seat.

Jesse bit her lip and looked back at Lukas as he shook his head in dismay. "There's no way we can make it, not on foot!" he finished.

The spider hybrid looked around in a panic, before her eyes lit up in realization. "Ah- one second-" Five of her arms shot out. Each hand snagged the reins of a horse, nearly jerking the spider hybrid off of her feet before she regained her balance, struggling to keep the bucking, plunging horses in place. "Give the horses to Ellegaard, Magnus, Soren, Gabriel, and Petra," she instructed rapidly, her words almost blurring together, "the rest of us'll just have to make do without 'em!"

Lukas was nodding almost before she finished speaking. "Got it!" He grabbed two of the horses and waved at Ellegaard and Petra, while Jesse flailed her free arms at Magnus, Gabriel and Soren. "Guys! Get on! Get a horse! C'mon!" she shouted.

Lukas helped Petra onto a horse. Frost started forming on the horse armor that the horse was wearing, but the horse seemed to be totally unaffected by this. For the moment, anyway.

Olivia helped Ellegaard onto the horse as well, the other three Order members practically vaulting onto their horses in a hurry. Ellegaard seemed half-asleep, though, so Olivia had to snap her fingers vigorously near Ellegaard's ear. This jerked Ellegaard right out of the stupor she'd fallen into- temporarily, anyhow- and she grabbed the reins of her horse tightly.

Jesse dropped to all eights, looking up at Gabriel. The warrior was staring down at the spider hybrid with a bewildered look. "Hang on- this... may be a bit of a bumpy ride." And with that, she fired a string into the air, and then gave it a sharp flick. A whipcrack rang through the air.

"Huh," Harper hummed. "Clever."

The horses all reared in shock, before galloping off. Gabriel let out a loud yell and threw his arms around the neck of his horse as it took off, Jesse scuttling across the ground along with the horses in great haste. Petra was clinging to the reins of her horse so tightly her knuckles were white, Lukas was racing away with his tail flapping in the wind, and Olivia teleported around, but mostly staying closer to Ellegaard to check how she was doing. Axel was running at full tilt, Reuben perched safely in his hood, head bowed against the wind.

"Whoo-hoo! This is awesome!" Magnus cheered.

Ellegaard shook her head a bit and glared at him, one hand still pressed firmly against her side. "How is this awesome?!" she snapped back.

Jesse veered around a spider jockey and kept racing along the ground, nearly doing a flip from the velocity she avoided it with. She was racing along the ground at pretty much breakneck speed.

"We're not going to make it!"

Jesse glanced up at Gabriel. "Yes we are!" she yelled, discreetly checking behind her to see that the Witherstorms were getting ever-closer. "Just keep it together, Gabriel!"

"That monster is chasing me!" he cried out.

"It's chasing all of us!" Jesse shouted back.

Maya winced. "I feel pretty bad for him. All he knows is that they're all running from a giant monsters. He doesn't even know his own name."

Gabriel sighed. "Yes, I'm... not looking forward to that."

Tractor beams sucked up the dirt in front of them, ripping out a deep section of the ground right in front of Jesse. "Watch out!" Gabriel shouted to her.

Jesse's muscles all tensed, before she launched herself forward. Her hands slapped onto the edge of the hole, and she scrambled up and out rapidly.

Many members of the audience let out a relieved sigh.

"Don't let it get any closer!" Gabriel cried out, leaning even further forward into his horse's neck.

"That's the greatest warrior of all time?" Aiden asked, sarcastically. Several members of the audience groaned at him.

"Screw off and shut up, Aiden!" Jace snapped at him, having lost all patience with the brown-haired boy forever ago.

"I'll try!" Jesse shouted back.

Olivia teleported right in front of an Enderman, just as a tractor beam fell on it. Olivia jolted back in surprise as the Enderman let out a screech of rage, looking up at the tractor beam, before vanishing. The Enderman hybrid blinked for a minute.

"What just happened?" Sparklez asked.

Nell shook her head slowly. "I have no clue, dude."

Onscreen-Olivia suddenly gasped and threw herself to the right and teleporting out of sight as a tentacle slammed down on top of where she'd been only seconds previously.

Axel let out a relieved sigh and tightened his arm around the dark-haired girl's shoulders.

Jesse cut precisely around as several tentacles stabbed into the ground violently around her, some missing her by a hair and one of them coming close enough that if she hadn't veered away at just the right second, it would've impaled her. As it was, it cut off a good two inches of her hair.

"That was close," Jesse murmured to herself.

Not even a few seconds later, a flaming skull blasted a crater in the ground in front of her. Jesse instinctively tensed her muscles and leaped- just in time, too, because she'd nearly fallen into the crater just by scuttling forward. She barely cleared the gap and kept bolting forwards. "HO-kay, never mind, THAT was close!" she shrieked.

The whole group raced towards this bridge that crossed a small chasm. "There!" Jesse shouted, which seemed a bit obvious. "We just need to get over that-!"

A flaming skull smashed through the bridge, making the whole group come to a screeching halt to avoid falling into the chasm. Gabriel nearly toppled off his horse, as they all stared at where the bridge had been in dismay.

The audience gaped.

"-bridge," Jesse finished the thought with an annoyed sigh.


A/N: Annnnd we'll stop right there xD

By the way, some of the previous chapter's book titles have been changed, but not a lot.

RQTC: Who's hyped up for the next chapter? (grins) Oh, god, I'm actually the most hyped up to write everything in this episode. You'll see why if you've never read Hybrid, and if you have... be prepared for some nice little surprises.

DynamiteHunter6: (grins)

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: (laughs) Yep. / And yep x3 / Um, no... I don't get the reference. / Heehee xD

RavenBlaze4850: Yes! / Hahaha xD We'll see

Emily The Avenger: (cracks up)

LittleAngelbun: (laughs) I'm pretty sure most of the readers of this story are fully aware. / Fair enough.

MissyMattingly: (shrugs) Fair enough.

the indecisive bird: (laughs) Same here, though / Not ALL the other fics. It's slightly related to the plot which books they're in there, so yes, faintly important. But I ain't saying nothing more. xD

KaosRuin: (laughs)

RapidSammi: Hehehe xD / Yay!

AquaK13: Heehee x3 / (laughs) / I know, right?

NinjaNaranja: No, not at all x3

Darkbeast Dend: It means I've been good lately.

LunarStarsMoon: (laughs) Nice, dude. / Yes indeed~ / Haha, yep x3

Rabbits rule: (cracks up) / ... um... / (coughs)

FireBallin17: Ah, I see.

x.X. A.L. X.x