"This thing just won't die, will it," Jesse sighed as she got up, looking up at the upside down block. "Okay, new plan," she said to Reuben. "I'm gonna climb up there," and she looked at a wall, "and use one of the tentacle thingies to swing towards the Command Block."

Jesse leaned down and touched Reuben on the top of the head, eyes softening. "Stay here, Reuben. I mean it this time."

And she started climbing the walls, the cracks being too small for the human eye but looking big as chasms to Jesse, her fingers finding handholds and somehow able to stay in them.

Jesse clambered onto a high ledge, this one completely black. Jesse slipped a bit, but her lower arms were still good enough to propel herself onto the surface. The Witherstorm gave another roar, everything shaking again. Jesse clutched onto the ledge she was standing on.

Which suddenly started moving.

Jesse let out a shriek and toppled from the new Witherstorm head.

"What in- how is this possible?!" Jesse gaped at the head, before turning her head to see another one rumble through the other side of the room, tractor beams switching on and roving through the room.

Jesse dodged to the side to avoid one, Reuben galloping up to her. "Reuben! I told you to stay put!" she cried out, before she had to scoop him up and barrel out of the way to avoid both tractor beams.

Jesse skidded out of the way and nearly fell into the hole that was forming. She chanced a glance down, and felt her mouth go dryer than the desert biome when she saw the land below. It was a long, long, LONG way down.

Swallowing nervously, Jesse watched as a tractor beam lifted a severed tentacle into the air, before glancing at the Command Block. Cracks ran over the whole thing, and it was pretty evident that one last good hit would break the thing for good.

Jesse's eyes suddenly lit up, an idea forming in her head. It was a bad idea, but it was the only one she had. "I think I know exactly how I'm gonna get up there," she said, thoughtfully. And her eyes traveled slowly to the glowing indigo beam. "The tractor beam."

Reuben let out a loud squeal at that, and Jesse set her pig down, before waving furiously at the Witherstorm heads. "Hey, you!" she shouted, before giving Reuben a glance. "Just watch my back, okay Reuben? I'll be counting on you." She whipped back around to the Witherstorm, feeling her stomach practically BOIL in dread. "Bet you can't catch me!"

The tractor beam landed right on her.

Jesse let out a shriek as she flew into the air, feeling weightless and her stomach dropping to the tips of her toes as she soared into the air, quickly tightening her grip on her sword.

The moment she was in reach of the Witherstorm's head, she slashed as hard as she could, slashing right through the eye and cutting off the tractor beam, catching onto the edge and crawling on in great haste. Jesse gulped as she turned around, hands shaking, as the tentacles thrashed to and fro, the head beneath her moving side to side weakly as if trying to shake her off. Jesse didn't dare look down, as she backed up a step, and then ran with all her might.

Kicking off the edge, she managed to snag a tentacle with a free hand, but before she could do anything to even try to hit the Command Block, a tentacle seized her and sent the sword flying from her hand. It clattered onto the ground and landed near the gaping hole in the ground. Jesse gasped and shook her head furiously. The sword was too far for her to reach, and she had no time to make mistakes. "Reuben, I need your help!" she screamed down to the pink pig, "Remember we used to play fetch?"

Reuben perked up, picking up the super-sword in his mouth, and beginning to run towards Jesse.

The tentacle swung Jesse close to the Witherstorm head, a bit too close for comfort. Jesse kicked and thrashed, keeping an eye on her little pig as he ran onto a higher tentacle, running towards Jesse below him. "Jump! I'll catch you!"

Reuben did so without any hesitation, leaping from the tentacle and Jesse managing to catch Reuben by the hoof, both of them dangling over the abyss, joy dancing in her eyes at how brave her little pig was. "You did it!" Jesse cried out, "I knew I could count on you!"

Jesse took the sword out of the pig's mouth with her free hand. "Okay, it's time to put an end to this thing, once and-" She was cut off as the Witherstorm head lashed out, massive teeth clamping down on Reuben's back leg.

"Reuben!" Jesse screamed, turning back to her little pig, her little Reuben, the only thought tearing through her numb, horrified head being: This thing's got my Reuben!

The Witherstorm head engaged in a deadly game of tug-of war, Jesse refusing to release her Reuben and the Witherstorm head clinging on just as tightly. "No, no, no, Reuben, Reuben, hold, hold on, okay," Jesse pleaded, and suddenly the Witherstorm's teeth slipped off.

Just as Jesse's grip also slipped.

For a second, the only thing Jesse could hear was the screaming, the screaming, as she drew a hand back and fired a web- just as the tentacle holding her thrashed sideways, and it was Gabriel all over again, except a hundred times worse, because it was her Reuben, and why wasn't the screaming stopping, and why wasn't the world stopping so she could catch her little pig?

And then Reuben fell out of sight, even as Jesse tried to catch him again, even as the string flew after the little pig, he dropped through the gaping hole.

Jesse screamed again, and the rawness of her throat made screaming hell, but she still screamed, and she realized at the same time that it had been her screaming that whole time. "REUBEN!"

There was no answer.

Jesse felt something stirring in her chest, and her vision turned red. Both eyes blazed like rubies as her fist clenched on the hilt of the super-weapon, fangs appearing in her mouth, as she let out another scream, one of rage this time, one that no one could've ever expected to make, as she whirled around, twisting in the Witherstorm's grip, and swung the sword with a strength that could only be described as superhuman.

The sword's blade shattered as it cleaved into the Command Block, sending shards of metal flying everywhere, a couple grazing her face.

Jesse didn't care one atom.

The Command Block exploded in a shower of white sparks, the Witherstorm head going limp and the tractor beam vanishing, everything flickering out so that it was dark.

The tentacle loosened and dropped Jesse, making gravity lose its hold on her for a moment, as Jesse plummeted towards the earth far below.

She probably was going to die. Her life should've flashed before her eyes or something.

But for some reason, the only thought that ran through her head was that she hadn't been fast enough to save her little Reuben, her little pig, her sweet innocent pink pig who was one of her best friends, her Reuben.

I'm so sorry.

I'm never fast enough.

I didn't mean to let you go.

I didn't mean for you to fall.

Please be okay.

Please.

I don't want you to be hurt.

You're my little pig, okay?

My little Reuben.

A/N: You guys are going to MURDER me this chapter and next chapter. I just know it. Someone is going to show up to my house in the middle of the night and stab me or something. This was NOT an easy decision to make. But for the sake of the story to play out the way I planned it, it must happen. (sighs unhappily)

Toni42: Haha, yep :) And yes, that was fun to write. (both Olivia keeping the Endermen angry and the red eyes)

angelwings: Probably I did :)

Kaos Ruin: I thought nobody noticed xD And I love your ideas but for the sake of the story, I can't use them. (sighs) I may write a oneshot based on said ideas later, though.

Guest: You're gonna kill me. I know it. I just know it. Everyone's going to murder me.

angelwings: (sighs unhappily)

RapidSammi: No problem! Glad it makes you happy. :)

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