"Okay, Jesse," Ivor said, softly but urgently after the giggling fits had subsided, "choose, quickly now!"

"Ummmmm give me..." Jesse looked between the two potions, before holding her hand out. "I guess I'll take the potion of leaping." Hey, Jesse was a spider hybrid- she was going to stick with the thing she knew how to do best.

"All right, all right, don't jump all over me."

Jesse deadpanned at her dad-mentor- Notch, this was getting annoying- as he handed over the potion. "Really, Ivor? Really?" she asked, trying incredibly hard not to smirk at him.

Ivor's cheeks colored a little, though it was a bit hard to tell in the darkness. "What? I thought it was funny."

The two redheads looked as though they were trying hard not to die of laughing, if that was possible. Petra was literally doubled over, weakly hitting the ground with her fist, and Cassie was actually holding Winslow to her face to keep from laughing, which made Jesse smirk a bit. Jesse grinned, rolling her eyes as she uncorked the bottle, the cork popping out with a little sound. "Hm, with this I don't even really need the redstone or buttons- I can just drop the TNT on 'em from the sky!"

"Don't worry, Jesse," Ivor said, his dark blue eyes softening as the two redheads finally recovered from their giggling fit. "We'll be right behind you."

And the two redheads nodded in agreement, the calico cat on Cassie's shoulder also bobbing its head up and down in a nod.

Jesse smiled, raising the potion towards her lips. "Okay, potion- do your stuff." And then she tilted her head back as the contents of the potion went down her throat.

Immediately, she found something going on with her legs and arms- they felt springier. Her body itself felt a bit... lighter. It was strange.

Standing up, she carefully walked outside of the wall, turning around to face a nearby building, dropping to all eights. For a couple of seconds, her muscles tensed and coiled and wound up.

And then she leaped.

A jump that she wouldn't have made completely before sent her flying neatly onto the roof of the building, and turning around, she spotted a small gaggle of skeletons walking stiffly along, and she jumped again, her body doing a slow, lazy flip as she whipped out the TNT and threw it. It lit as it fell towards the skeletons, flashing white.

Jesse finished the flip and landed on the roof of the next building, the explosion she'd just caused sending skeletons flying and making a large crater appear in the ground behind her. Straightening up, she pulled out two more blocks of TNT at the sight of creepers and zombies approaching each other. Tensing her legs again, she made another huge leap, soaring into the air and dropping down the next two TNTs, which flashed white as they fell, landing on the ground just shy of them. Making another humongous leap, she flew into the air, past PAMA's screen, and threw down her last block of TNT at a group of zombies which were starting to converge on each other.

Landing neatly on the other side of the screen, she turned just in time to see zombies go flying everywhere, and she turned and ran for the doorway.

"Is that you, Jesse?" PAMA's voice called out, calmly, "because this won't work. My forces will protect the Exit Portal."

Jesse froze, eyes widening.

Oh.

Oh no.

That confirmed it.

Harper had been chipped.

"My friends have almost finished building our new Exit Portal," PAMA intoned, "and then, I will make all other worlds useful. Yay." A sort of flickering sound as Jesse raced along the ground, dropping to all eights as her head turned from side to side, toning out PAMA's voice. Core, Core, Core...

As she turned a corner, she spotted the red, glowing doorway. Glancing back the other way, she saw Ivor, Petra, and Cassie, Winslow riding on Cassie's head, rush over, looking around for the spider hybrid. Petra's sword and Cassie's axe were out.

Jesse winced, rubbing her head as she ran over to them, all of them turning around, as she whispered, "Augh, I think PAMA might be onto us."

"Really? You don't think the explosions had anything to do with it?" Petra asked drily.

"Ooh, nice."

"The townspeople are already building the Exit Portal," Jesse said, ignoring the sarcasm, "we've got to shut this oversized hunk of metal down before it can send its chipped forces through it!"

She was interrupted, once again, by PAMA. Jesse sighed, putting a hand to her face. "Rude..."

"I will find you, Jesse," PAMA intoned calmly, "I have lots of friends."

Jesse felt her skin go a shade paler at the sight of the zombies and skeletons, all walking in almost perfect sync, searching the landscape for them. "Oh no..." she moaned, and then raced for the doorway.

Cassie whipped out her axe, and Petra her sword, a circle of fire flaring to life around the three of them in defense.

Jesse skidded to a stop in front of the door, looking back at them with wide, desperate eyes. "Guys!" she shouted.

Petra glanced at Jesse, before fishing around in her pocket, pulling out a flash of metal- the bucket- and throwing it to Jesse, whose lower arms automatically shot out and caught the bucket, the metal clanking and the water sloshing slightly as it landed squarely in her hands.

Ivor looked back around at Jesse, reaching into his pocket and hurling it to her, which Jesse also caught. "Don't worry, Jesse- we'll hold them off!" Cassie shouted, swinging her axe around in a wide arc and smashing it into a nearby zombie.

"Go finish this and save Lukas!" Petra added, giving her spider hybrid friend an encouraging grin, "you can do this!"

Jesse returned the grin nervously, and turning on her heel, as Petra charged into the mobs with a yell, she ran through the doorway, coming to a ledge lined with glowing redstone.

Taking in a slow, deep breath, she bent her knees and jumped out of sight.

A/N: Yes! We've gotten this far!

Oh sheeeeeet I have a project component due on Monday next week... and I have to memorize a Chinese speech... and I'm actually having a bit of a panic attack because of that... gaHHH... (thumps head) Hnnnnnggggggg.

Wish me luck, guys!

angelwings: Lol nice xD

RapidSammi: Ahh got it. And thanks!

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