Jesse's mouth fell open as they appeared on the land again, Lukas nearly tripping and falling over from the sensation of teleporting.

The entire top of Soren's mountain had vanished, and the Witherstorms were bigger than ever before. They were so big that they'd made the old Witherstorm look like a baby in comparison.

"Wow," said Lukas.

"Shouldn't the Endermen have destroyed the Witherstorm by now?" Gabriel wondered, staring at the Witherstorms in confusion, "or am I just confused again?"

"No, it's not just you," Ivor was shaking his head, also staring at the Witherstorms, "something's wrong."

"Jesse!" And Jesse had barely enough time to turn before she was nearly slammed into the dirt by Axel's enthusiastic greeting hug, his arms wrapping around the small female to the point where Jesse felt as if she hadn't been wearing armor, her ribs would've cracked.

"Hi Axel," she squeaked.

He dropped her to the ground, admiring her outfit, then Olivia's, then Lukas's. "Nice freaking armor, by the way," he complimented.

"You get some too," Ivor said, holding out the armor. Axel let out a loud, rather happy gasp, before taking the armor and putting it on as fast as he could. The green of the armor was solid, and he had a sort of fishbowl thing as a helmet. But the boots were mottled, and the pants were a mottled green. The mottled green faded about halfway up the body.

"Nice armor yourself, Axel," Jesse grinned at her friend, who grinned right back, before her expression went a little more serious. "Do you still have the amulet?" she asked him.

Axel pulled it out easily, making Jesse wonder how exactly he'd done that with his armor on before deciding that she didn't really care. "Safe and sound. That's not the problem."

"What is?" Jesse asked, tentatively.

"The Endermen... they're not angry enough. I mean, some are-" Jesse glanced up to see like four Endermen ripping blocks off of the Witherstorm, "but most of them are just standing around, moving blocks. You know, being Endermen."

"Blast!" Soren hissed. Jesse got the feeling that the architect wanted to use a stronger term.

"They've done a pretty good job of keeping the main Witherstorm busy," Axel continued, glancing over his shoulder like he was expecting a tractor beam to suck them all up in the next minute. "But one of the smaller ones started attacking us. Magnus ran off to fight that thing, all by himself!"

"What?! He did what?!" Soren shouted, eyes widening. Ivor's eyes widened as well. "He's fighting a Witherstorm by himself?!"

Gabriel stepped up, making them all look at the warrior. "If a fellow member of the Order of the... of the... uhm..."

"Order of the Stone," Jesse prompted the frowning Gabriel.

Gabriel nodded his thanks. "Is out there fighting... then I belong out there, too."

"Wait, you're not about to do what I think you're about to do, are you- Gabriel!" Ivor snapped as Gabriel charged forward, running down the hill towards the Endermen. "Oh, Notch, I'm not letting that idiot get himself killed! Gabriel! Get back here!" And he raced after his friend.

Soren bit his lip, before rushing after them. "Both of you, come back! Without the Command Block, none of stand a chance! ... and yet, I'm joining you two. I have no idea why." His voice was lost after another moment or so in the chaos.

"Why do they need the Command Block?" Axel asked.

"The Order of the Stone are frauds," Jesse responded promptly, "all of them."

"It's a long story- one we do NOT have time for," Olivia interrupted before Axel could explode with curiosity. The burly male deflated with a pout. "Fine."

"We'll tell you later. By the way, you guys didn't check on Petra and Ellegaard, right?"

Axel shook his head. "No, we came straight back here."

"They're still in that cave... I hope they'll be alright," Lukas said, in a quieter, rather subdued voice.

"They will be," Jesse assured him, "as long as we destroy the Command Block. We need to find a way for me to use this," and she brandished her enchanted sword.

Axel's eyes widened. "WHOA. That is, without question, the coolest thing I've ever seen!"

"Come on, let's go kick some Command Block butt," Jesse said, fist tightening on her sword.

Everyone gave her a nod, eyes shining with determination.

And they walked straight towards the Storm.

"We need to get the Endermen to focus and attack the Witherstorms, if we have any chance of getting to the Command Block," Olivia spoke, crossing her arms and looking at the crowd of Endermen.

"Can Endermen focus?" Axel wondered.

"Olivia, can't you just ask the Endermen to attack the Witherstorm? Like, I dunno, an Endergeneral?" Lukas suggested.

He wasn't the only disappointed one as Olivia shook her head, a funny look on her face. "Endermen don't take orders from anyone- not even other Endermen. The ONE person who they DO take orders from doesn't even exist- it's a children's story, made up to scare the pants off children on Halloween. I could ask a couple, but they might not listen, so even then that'd be a risky endeavor."

"So that's a no go," Axel summed up.

"Pretty much."

Jesse frowned and looked at the Endermen. A tractor beam shifted and landed on one of them, and the head shot up as it started screeching with rage, teleporting out of sight. It appeared on the massive cloud that was the Witherstorm and started ripping blocks off.

"The tractor beam!" the four friends chorused, looking at each other.

"That's it, make them chase you into the tractor beam!" Olivia shouted, all of them splitting up and rushing off to do their task.

Jesse shook her head with a little sigh as they disappeared among the Endermen, following a little ways behind. "Why must saving the world be so stressful?"

A/N: Haha, poor Jesse xD The stress of all this is going to give her nightmares for years

Kaos Ruin: Lol! xD I almost gave Jesse one of the suits of armor before realizing she needed extra armholes, so I just made that part up on the spot

ChoyofBonk: Apparently I can type 81 words a minute when I'm going really fast. Huh.

NoItsBecky: Thanks. It's much better today, thank god.

TheRealRedGaming: (I have no idea) And pffft, well, I don't know. I'm just following the general storyline, and I thought it'd be more realistic for them to use the potions this time around.

NoItsBecky: (shrugs) Both ships are okay, although I don't hate or love either.

rebekahtpe: Lick my shoe. It'd take me a total of like six seconds. And holy crap, world record xD

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