"Harper?" Cassie asked slowly, all four heads- including Winslow's- slowly swiveling to face the Old Builder.
Harper shot them a sheepish look. "Hey, don't you judge me. Being alone gets lonely," the white-haired woman said defensively.
"You're telling me," Cassie huffed.
Jesse shrugged and her lower arms reached out, taking ahold of the bucket. The moment 'Ron' relinquished it, Jesse nearly fumbled and dropped it- that water bucket was heavy.
"Happy to help, friend!" Ron said.
Jesse blinked again, before deciding to ignore it and return the water bucket to Harper. Harper smiled a bit, taking the bucket. "Thanks. See, I needed a way to confuse PAMA in case it ever found a way down here. That's why all this is way more complicated than it needs to be."
"Oh. That makes sense," Jesse said thoughtfully, as Harper strolled over to the cauldron and upended the bucket, splashing water into the cauldron. A section of the floor glowed brightly, illuminating that corner, as streams of water poured down from the ceiling, and the pistons blocking the doorway slid to the side.
Jesse shot Ivor a smile, and went back over to Harper, who was stooping down to get some more water. "Wow. What a builder," Ivor said softly.
"Hm, I think you find more than just her building impressive, hmmm?" Cassie hummed, giving Ivor a teasing grin, crossing her arms at him.
Ivor scowled at the red-haired girl. "I liked it better when you were all quiet and shy around us."
Jesse smirked, trying not to outright laugh, and put her hands on her hips. "So you know about PAMA's weakness to water, then?" she asked, mildly, looking around at the water pouring from the ceiling.
"Yeah, I do. I'll admit you figured it out way faster than I did, though," Harper said, giving the spider hybrid a small smile. "Once PAMA caught on to its weakness to water-" she stood up, still holding the bucket and beginning to walk off, Jesse trailing after her, "it started eliminating as much of this world's water as it could find. This water that's down here? It might be all that's left."
Jesse frowned- just as the whole tunnel shook. Looks as though Petra and Lukas got down here.
Cassie proceeded to swear so badly that even Winslow gave her an admonishing look.
"I hate to take a leaf out of Cassie's book, but damn!" Jesse snapped.
Harper looked horrified. "I still need to activate the other cauldrons!" she cried, before looking to Jesse and Cassie. "Hold them off to buy me more time!" She ran towards another cauldron, before pausing and looking back at Jesse. "And whatever you do, don't get caught- I'm not about to get left alone again."
Cassie whipped out her axe, backing her and Ivor into a corner. "Jesse, you're more able to keep them back than I am- I'll just watch to make sure none of us get hurt!"
Jesse nodded, her lower arms absentmindedly whirling out an axe and a pickaxe, body automatically shifting into a defensive position.
"You could've made this much easier for yourself," Petra-PAMA spoke, her, Lukas, and several spiders marching around the corner.
Jesse gave the spiders a funny look, before returning her attention to Petra- and then diving to her left. A fireball shot over her head, which Cassie smacked down into a nearby wall, where it flamed out. Lukas's claws unsheathed, and Jesse looked back to Petra as she whipped out her sword, fire beginning to flicker along the blade.
Jesse could've happily cursed her tongue off. "Why did PAMA have to be so damn smart?" she groaned, before sticking her tongue out. "Get out of their heads, you- you- you oversized hunk of metal and redstone!" Jesse yelled. It was the first insult that popped to mind and admittedly a rather poor one.
"Your friends," Petra-PAMA spoke calmly, "have been made useful."
"Dead creepy, that is," Jesse grumbled quietly.
"You, too, will be made useful."
Jesse sighed and tensed, getting into a lower position. "You asked for it, PAMA," she said, her voice going much lower and her eyes glowing bloodred.
"There!"
Jesse glanced over to see Harper dumping another bucketful of water down. Lukas casually hopped out of the way as a column of water splashed down where he'd just been, and on Ivor, soaking him.
He spit out a little spout of water, as Cassie blinked water out of her eyes and Winslow hissed angrily. "Er... thanks?" he asked, poking his head out of the water, his black hair shiny and flat.
"I did not need a bath right now," Cassie crabbed gently, smacking a spider with her axe and knocking it back.
Jesse whirled on the spot, slashing out with her sword and slamming a spider backwards, sending it flying through one of the waterfalls. It spasmed, small arcs of lightning lighting up the area, before the redstone chip sailed off, and it looked at Jesse.
"Help the red-haired girl and the black-haired guy in the corner NOW!" Jesse hissed, her chest humming angrily as she spoke. The spider scuttled off to go help in whatever way it could. Jesse whirled back around to block a fiery sword hit from Petra's sword, which literally sent sparks flying as it grated on Jesse's enchanted blade, making Jesse skid backwards a step.
Jesse skipped back a step and flicked out with the flat side of her axe, which Petra responded to by firing a fireball-
Jesse instinctively ducked, and the sound of something sharp swiping over her head met her ears. She twisted to see Lukas stagger a bit, caught off guard, and kicked backwards reflexively into his legs, knocking him forward and sending the ocelot hybrid toppling straight into the Blaze hybrid, who staggered a bit before regaining her balance, helping him back up.
"Here goes another one!"
And several more waterfalls poured down from the ceiling, Jesse dodging to the left quickly to avoid getting soaked.
"End of the line, Jesse," both Petra and Lukas spoke simultaneously, in the creepy PAMA voice, both of them advancing on her at the same time. Jesse looked desperately to Cassie, but she had her hands full trying to handle some of the spiders that were crawling at her and Ivor and Winslow.
Jesse turned back to her two friends. Some of the best friends she'd ever had, really. And really, some of the only friends she'd had for a very, very long time. An ocelot, and a Blaze. The few people for whom Jesse would do anything, and she really did mean anything.
Now she had to choose between them.
A/N: Oooooh choose! And choose wisely!
Seriously, though, who d'you think I'm gonna choose?
angelwings: Heck yeah I know Undertale. My favorite's Grillby xD in all seriousness though I think I like Muffet. Even though I'm arachnophobic in real life... eh whatever xD
DemonCatLady: Lol xD
RapidSammi: Aw, thanks! :)
LittleAngelbun: Nice xD
Toni42: Hehehe xD I love that part too. :) OHHHH yes I love that xD And maybe (insert Lenny face here)
NoItsBecky: Ahahaha now I get it xD
ChoyofBonk: Yus!
rebekahtpe: Ghast sized cows, because cows are still pretty darn big and Ghasts can shoot fireballs. So yeah xD
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