"Jesse? Are you okay?" Jesse suddenly found Ivor practically right up next to her, frantically checking her over, dark blue eyes darting over the spider hybrid as he looked the girl up and down. "Are you hurt? It was just one zombie, what was the problem?"

Lukas shook his head so fast that his ears flapped a bit. "Nuh-uh, that thing was like- I don't know, 'Super Zombie' or something."

Jesse gave the blonde ocelot hybrid a deadpan look. "Really? 'Super Zombie?'" she asked, trying not to sound too terribly amused.

"Oh hush. It was stronger... tougher... faster..." Lukas made a face. "Ohhh I hope there's not something wrong with me."

Jesse scratched her head, squinting her eyes. "Maybe this world's 'thing' is that the mobs are all super-tough?" she offered.

Petra rubbed her left arm with a thoughtful look on her face, while Cassie's eyes narrowed thoughtfully. "Hmm, maybe. It definitely seems possible."

"Oh man, we had so much trouble with just one of the things," Lukas said, making a face, "I can't even begin to think how we might fight a whole horde of them." As he spoke, Jesse spotted something, and her face went white as snow. "Um... speaking of which..."

They all turned around to look. And- yep- a whole horde of zombies, lurching towards them in creepy rhythm.

"I'm never talking again," Lukas sulked, unsheathing his claws again.

"I don't know about you guys," Petra said, hand tight on her sword as it flared to life, flames dancing along the metal, "but I'd like to find a different way to fight these 'super zombies'."

Cassie whipped out her axe, Winslow crawling under her beanie and curling up tight underneath it. Cassie looked over at Jesse. "Uh, Jesse?"

"What are you looking at me for? I don't know how to handle the super-zombies," Jesse grumbled a little, all four of them backing up, backing up, until their backs hit sandstone.

The zombies rotting hands were inches from their faces... centimeters... and suddenly, their arms dropped, and their heads tilted forward, all of their eyes still a luminous red.

A short silence as they all stared. "That was... unexpected," Lukas voiced what everyone was thinking, reaching out tentatively and poking one of the zombies. It just swayed in place slightly.

Jesse frowned at the huge, flashing red... thing on the back of all the zombies' heads. "What in the name of Notch IS that thing?" she asked rather flatly, pointing at it. "Cassie?" she glanced at their current resident redstone expert.

Cassie trotted around to have a look at it, frowning intently at the strange thing. "I've never seen anything like this before... but it definitely has something to do with redstone, though what I have no clue."

"Fascinating," Ivor hummed, leaning forward to look at the thing as well.

Jesse poked one zombie with her sword. It also just swayed. "Maybe these redstone-y things are what make the zombies so... blank," she wondered.

Lukas finished scribbling it down in his journal, pushing the thing back into his pocket. "Makes sense to me. I'm starting to wonder if we should-"

What he was about to say, they'd never know, because suddenly a loud ringing sound rang out, staticky and loud and- and-

Jesse grabbed at her head, shaking it furiously, but the pain was growing to the point where it felt like someone was stabbing it.

"Augh!" Lukas yelled, over the sound, "What IS that?!"

Cassie was clutching her head as well. "It's- it's like it's in my head!" she shouted back.

Jesse would've responded, except suddenly the scene in front of her fell away.


"Jesse!"

Jesse looked up to see Lukas barreling across the floor. It seemed familiar, and the little spider hybrid spent three seconds trying to puzzle it out before deciding it was nothing. "Yeah?"

Lukas put on the brakes, couldn't stop in time, and smacked into the spider hybrid, knocking the both of them to the floor in a tangle of limbs.

Jesse giggled as Lukas huffed, lying on top of her. "Ivor said he has something for you!"

Jesse jumped up so fast that Lukas slipped to the floor and landed in a bit of a heap. "Really? What are we waiting for then let's go!" And with that the spider hybrid was out of the room.

Lukas blinked after the fluffy-haired girl.

"Boy she's fast..."


The feedback- or- the- the static- or whatever the heck it was suddenly stopped, as did the sudden memory, Jesse gasping and clutching at her head as it faded away into the recesses of her mind.

The zombies swung an abrupt 180-degree turn, and started lurching away again.

Ivor looked utterly nonplussed at that. "They're leaving? Just like that?"

"They're heading back the way they came from," Cassie noted, squinting at them.

Lukas's tail flicked as he stared thoughtfully after the zombies. "This might sound crazy... but I feel like they're trying to lead us somewhere," he hummed.

"You're right, that does sound crazy."

Lukas playfully smacked Petra on the back of the head for that offhand statement, Jesse squinting at the zombies thoughtfully. "Mmm, let's go," she decided, "I'm starting to think there's somebody behind this and I wanna find out who."

Cassie shrugged, putting her axe back away and trotting after Jesse, Winslow poking his head out from under the rather tattered and now rather lumpy beanie. "I'm cool with that."

"So, then, let's get moving," Petra said rather enthusiastically, trotting after them, Lukas and Ivor not looking quite as enthused but still going after the black-haired spider hybrid.

And the five of them began to walk after the small horde of zombies, making sure to keep a safe distance away, which moved in perfect sync.

Jesse still found that incredibly creepy, by the way.

A/N: And we've met the other 'super-zombies'! Harper... well, she SHOULD show up next chapter.

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