The two of them emerged from the staircase. "Where are the others?" Lukas wondered, before they heard Axel's voice boom over the crowd. They looked over and saw the burly boy waving his arms.

"Freaky, with a side of strange!" he was saying, "why won't you believe me? Do you want me to tell you charades style?"

Jesse and Lukas couldn't help but giggle a little bit as they moved towards their friends.

"Believe me," Gabriel sighed, "that's the LAST thing I want you to do."

Their giggles amplified.

"Four words. Six syllables. Sounds like: 'schmonster in the schmasement." Olivia rolled her eyes at the burly male.

The giggles grew so acute that Jesse was actually completely silent from giggling so hard.

Gabriel put a hand against his forehead. "Next," he said tiredly.

"Wait- just-" Olivia hastily began, before she was interrupted by a voice that made the giggling abate. "I have a question for you."

Jesse glanced at Lukas with a look that said, 'How in the name of Notch did this guy get up here without us seeing him?'

Lukas spread his arms out in a way that said, 'How am I supposed to know?'

"Excuse me, sir," Gabriel said, looking up in Ivor's direction, "You'll have to wait your turn."

"Just tell me this: do you truly believe that ANYONE can be great?"

Gabriel put his hands on his hips. "With enough hard work, yes."

"Was that where I went wrong?" Ivor literally spat, storming out of the crowd with a seething expression, "I simply didn't work hard enough?!"

Gabriel's expression changed, eyes widening. "Ivor?" he gasped, "is that really you?" Then, a look of anger settled over his face. "How dare you interrupt like this!"

Jesse looked from the glaring Ivor to the scowling warrior. "You know him?" she asked mildly, keeping her arms at her sides. Actually, HOW her voice was so calm she had no clue whatsoever. Inside she was either panicking or confused out of her mind.

Gabriel glanced down at her, making eye contact. "I don't know if I ever really did know him. But what I didn't know... I didn't like." And he glared at Ivor.

"The feeling is entirely mutual," Ivor seethed, walking up the steps, "why don't you tell them the real story, Gabriel?!" and he spat the last part out like it was poison.

"I see time has made you bitter," Gabriel responded evenly.

"And it's made YOU an even bigger fool," Ivor shot back. "These people were promised greatness, and I'm ready to deliver."

He started walking towards the back of the stage.

"Gabriel, you have to stop him!" Jesse shouted, desperately.

Gabriel glanced at her, then back to Ivor, a look of uncertainty and... was that apology?... coming over his face.

The Wither setup rose, only, this one had the two skulls on each end of the T. Ivor pulled out a skull- Petra's skull, and sneered at Gabriel, "I'm sorry this is how they had to learn the truth."

Gabriel's eyes widened even as Ivor turned back to his Wither and tipped it into place. "Ivor, no!"

An explosion sent the warrior and Ivor flying off the stage. A Wither rose from the stage, looking much like the one Jesse had fought when she was younger, but with the strange, machine-like block in its ribs.

Ivor stood up even as people started screaming and running. "Creature- attack!" he ordered.

The Wither flew around the keynote, making even more people flee the scene. A fireball shot right at Jesse-

Jesse dove out of the way, the fireball hitting the ground and blasting a crater where Jesse had been standing only seconds before. She scrambled to her feet, stepping away carefully as another one flew at her. She dodged that one, too.

Then things started getting a little weird. Parts of the floor, the wall, a couple posters, a flowerpot, started soaring towards the Wither, compacting into it and making things start thudding together, making it even larger than before.

Lukas was shaking, eyes wide. He looked like he wanted to bolt up the nearest tree and stay there until it left.

"Everyone, stay calm!" Gabriel shouted, "this foul beast is no match for me!"

Ivor pointed at Gabriel, looking much like a naughty kid tattling on another one. "Creature- attack!"

He leapt up and hit it with his sword... but instead of doing any damage, he rebounded and hit the ground. Hard.

"Gabriel-" Jesse began, stepping forward to help, but Gabriel managed to get to his feet. "No! Stay away!" he shouted, fear showing in his eyes. "It's after me, not you!"

"Look at him, the mighty Gabriel!" Ivor mocked, and Jesse glowered at him. "He might not be able to stop this creature, but I can!"

Jesse looked from the Wither, getting bigger by every minute, and then back at Ivor. "I highly doubt that."

"Creature- retreat!" Ivor ordered.

The Wither did nothing but turn to face him, the center head completely black with a single, glowing indigo eye.

"Uh- ahem," he cleared this throat, before shouting again, enunciating more this time, "Creature- retreat!"

It continued to advance, and he snapped, "Retreat, I said!"

"Ivor, what in the name of Notch are you doing?!" Jesse demanded.

Ivor glanced from her to the Wither again. "Uh, no need to worry, my friends-"

"We're not friends," the Bureau of Amalgamology, Petra, and Lukas chorused, even though Lukas was still shaking like a leaf.

"- I've prepared an elixir that will defeat this creature."

"An elix- oh." Jesse's face went snow white. "We're dead."

Ivor withdrew a potion- the same purple potion Axel had used to replace the fancy one from earlier.

"Uh oh," Axel said, eyes widening.

Ivor chucked the bottle at the Wither, which smashed on impact.

Nothing happened, as expected.

Ivor stared, horror in his eyes. "Impossible. It should've worked! I took such care!" he whispered.

"The potion- Axel, you have to throw the real potion!" Olivia hissed at Axel.

Axel hesitated. "But... finder's keepers."

"You thieves, you're ruining everything!" Ivor yelled at them, having caught their whispered conversation.

Axel reluctantly withdrew the fancy potion, which Jesse snatched and hurled at the Wither with all her might at the machine block. A black 'skin' crept over the block, just as the potion made contact.

"It's protecting itself!" Ivor cried out, "without the Command Block exposed, the potion's useless! It wasn't supposed to end this way..." he backed away, before turning tail and running.

"Ivor! You coward, get back here!" Gabriel roared after the male, but Ivor was long gone.

Suddenly, a tractor beam shone on Gabriel, lifting him into the air. Olivia ran forward, but then she started to shake the moment her body hit the tractor beam, and she started to screech, shaking harshly. She also started lifting into the air. "Je-Jesse," she screamed through the screeching, "h-help-!"

Jesse reacted immediate, holding her palms out. Strands of silk shot from each one, catching Gabriel on the leg and Olivia in the side, before Jesse yanked with all her might.

Both toppled to the ground, out of the tractor beam. "Thank you," Gabriel said, quickly getting rid of the string, Olivia pulling it off to the best of her ability and Jesse scraping her hands off on the ground. "I- I won't ask you how you did that. We don't have time. Ivor was right about one thing, I can't defeat that thing. Not on my own." He looked at them, as if just realizing they were still there. "Everyone's running away... except for you. Will you help me?"

Jesse hesitated, before nodding. "Of course."

"Follow me!" And all of them started running out of the keynote, Jesse not looking back as the world's worst monster was being created.

A/N: Of course, not much of a cliffhanger, but I don't want to drown you in words, so this is a good stopping point. I'll probably update in the next hour anyways xD Poor Jesse and Lukas, in a giggling fit.

Guest: Haha, are you talking about the Angry Birds movie? I didn't actually watch it. xD But, we'll see.

NinjaCat: They do. But running from a very big hungry Witherstorm is not the best time to explain things. xD And yes, my stories have almost no planning. I plan as I go, meaning that while I do get ideas for things within the plot, I don't actually try to plan what'll happen. So it's kind of a little adventure for me, too!

angelwings: Aghh, I'm trying to decide whether I should keep Reuben or not, since I don't want to deviate too much... I guess I'll decide when it comes to it. And thanks for thinking it's such a great story!

TheRealRedGaming: I type fast, and I write fast. I also don't proof-read that much. I'll go over it once, then I'll post it. And nope. School is in session. I just update so often because I have so much free time.

TheCloudsintheSky: Toni42 gave me a magic potion by accident, go ask her where she got it x3 I'm willing to bet Ivor was experimenting and we both got into it.

NoItsBecky: Sure! (gives you some) Hope that helps. Don't break the bottle.

Toni42: I did indeedy! And yes. Yes it is.

EchoWolfWinds: (shrugs) I actually am kind of joking about cliffhangers, since I tend to just end the chapter when I think it's at a good stopping point. Ironically that spot tends to be at a very actiony spot, although if I'm doing things like the Nether minecart, I'll lengthen the chapter specifically for that.

Wow this was a lot of responding I did.

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