All of them slammed onto something hard, Jesse's knees buckling and making her slam into the ground with a gasp, someone else colliding heavily on top of her a moment later.

"Ow!"

"That's my foot!"

"I can't see a thing!"

"Hang on, the redstone sensors should pick us up-"

A dim light shone down on them, barely illuminating the obsidian level they were on as they all scrambled to their feet, the lights going on higher and higher above them.

"About now," Cassie finished.

"Well... that's ominous," Lukas said, blinking at the lighting.

"Do you hear that?" Ivor's voice was a bit hushed as the sound of squeaking could be heard.

Jesse leaned over the edge, looking into a dark pit- which was suddenly lit up, to reveal that it was crawling with... Endermites.

"Endermites!" Jesse yelped, hopping back a step in shock.

Cassie pulled a couple of Ender Pearls out of her pocket. "Um... I didn't actually have time to grab many, so I only have two," she said, rather apologetically and somewhat meekly.

Jesse looked at the pair of Ender Pearls in her hands, before shrugging. "Good thing that's all we need. Give one to Ivor and I think we'll be good."

Ivor took the Ender Pearl Cassie offered him after a moments' hesitation, both of them chucking their Ender Pearls up as high as they could. They blinked out of sight a moment later, reappearing on a ledge quite a ways up, Winslow purring from where he was entangled with his owner.

Lukas looked at Jesse, who was on all eights. She looked up at him. "Well? Get on then," she said, lightly. Lukas slowly climbed on, Jesse waiting until he locked into place. Lukas blinked at the black-haired spider hybrid. "This... is surprisingly comfortable."

"Glad to hear it," Jesse responded, before starting up the wall, Lukas holding onto her shoulders tightly but relaxing his grip when he realized he didn't seem to be falling. "Uh, wow," he said, twisting to look at the Endermites below, "please don't fall."

"I wasn't planning on it," the spider hybrid teased back.

Cassie was climbing up using the impromptu staircase along the walls, Ivor following her with a rather reluctant look on his face. "You alright there, Jesse?" he asked, Petra hovering with them and looking down at Jesse.

"Yep! This is surprisingly easy," Jesse said cheerfully, before tensing all of her muscles and leaping forward. Lukas let out a rather high-pitched shriek and lunged forward, wrapping his arms around her neck in fear. "Oh, you're locked on, you'll be fine," Jesse said lightly, making Lukas loosen his grip slightly, still shaking as he clung to her.

Ivor scowled a bit for some reason.

"Petra, don't you have those five Ender Pearls in your inventory?" Jesse asked, pausing where she'd gotten on the wall (which was pretty darn high, and which Jesse was NOT planning on looking back down) to fish one out of her own inventory.

"Yeah," Petra patted her pockets before withdrawing a couple. "Why?"

"I wanna try one," Jesse stated as casually as if she'd said, 'I wanna cookie', before drawing her arm back and hurling it up as far as she could.

A boiling heat that made her skin almost burn off, like the Ender Portals back home, lungs screaming from lack of air crept over her, Lukas's arms tight around her neck- and then suddenly she was slipping through empty space, oh absolutely freaking not-!

Jesse's arms slammed down, scrabbling for a handhold as Lukas clung to her, trying to ignore the distracting feel of his very bushy tail batting against back nervously. "That was... that was disorienting," Jesse said, scrabbling as she managed to crawl onto the ledge without falling. Progress!

"Please don't do that again, Jesse... that was nerve wracking," Ivor called up to her. Jesse looked back over the ledge to see her d- mentor looking up at her with worried dark blue eyes.

Jesse felt bad that she'd worried him. "Okay, I promise I won't do that again," she said, automatically crossing her heart and then covering her eye.

Ivor, Petra and Lukas all smiled at that, although Cassie seemed a bit bemused, before they all clambered up after Jesse.

Jesse looked to Cassie, who still looked rather small and nervous standing there, her cat perched on her shoulder like a pirate's parrot. "Where's the portal?"

Cassie shuffled her feet, before looking around. "Mmmm ah, I see it," and she trotted off, the others being quick to follow her. Lukas didn't get off Jesse, who looked up at the ocelot hybrid. "Mind getting off, Lukas?"

Lukas pretended to think about it. "Hmmm nah. This is fun."

Jesse stuck her tongue out at him very maturely. "Lazy kitty."

"Hey!"

Jesse rolled her eyes with a laugh and went after Cassie, still on all eights.

Cassie shivered a little as she looked at Jesse. "Jeez, it's weird seeing a person walking like a spider..." she mumbled, looking slightly uncomfortable.

"You should probably get used to it," Lukas said, smiling slightly.

Jesse stuck her tongue out at him again as Cassie flipped another lever. Pistons fired, and a stone wall slid rather jerkily out of the way, revealing the REAL portal.

"I think you'd get along with Olivia," Jesse said mildly, as Lukas finally climbed off. "I mean, you know, once you get past the whole 'murderer' thing."

"Who's Olivia?"

Petra tapped her lip, a thoughtful look coming into her gold eyes. "Huh... you know, you have a good point there, Jesse."

"A friend who likes redstone," Lukas said simply.

"Ah..."

Jesse knelt down next to the portal, pulling out the flint and steel, before clicking them together.

A pillar of blue flame shot up, and then the doorway blazed a bright, beautiful green.

"Back to the hallway," Jesse sighed, putting her hands on her hips.

"Okay, who's going first?" Lukas asked.

Jesse stood up, giving them all a smile as her lower arms put the flint and steel back away. "Hey, we're all a team now. We all go together."

Cassie's eyes filled with hope, as Jesse turned back to the portal, a determined look on her face. "Ready? One... two..." Everyone joined in, "three..."

Jesse, Lukas, Petra, and Cassie (accompanied with Winslow) all charged through the portal. Ivor paused right in front, looking back for a moment, a small grin coming over his face. "Adventure!"

And he ran through the portal too.

A/N: AND EPISODE 6 COMES TO A CLOSE!

Episode 7's gonna be fun :) After the two filler chapters, of course.

No, I'm not writing Sparklez's little cameo in, sadly. :( But the next two chapters oughtta be fun!

RapidSammi: Lol it's okay and wow, that's good! I think... xD

angelwings: (shrugs) Probably not. And what? Your review got cut off. And happy birthday to your friend! :)

NoItsBecky: Around 16 or 17 now. Ivor's not, obviously xD but the hybrids are

Toni42: It's a mystery (wiggles fingers)

ChoyofBonk: So am I!

RattlesnaketheSandWing: Oh yeah, that's gonna be fun xD

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