"Harper!" Jesse said in surprise, mouth hanging open, as PAMA continued, in that infuriatingly robotic voice, "Your attempts to defeat me have been... impressive, Jesse. Your tenacity and spirit will help to improve me, once you have been made useful."

Jesse rolled her green and red eyes at the computer, but in the corner of her peripheral vision she caught a blur of motion. On an instinct, she dropped to all eights and shot forward like a bullet, reaching the base of the spire, as Harper slammed onto the ground where Jesse had been a moment before.

"If you wanted to kill me, you should just grab a newspaper and whack me," Jesse said sardonically, even as her mind scrambled. I can't DO anything to Harper... I can't use my last water bucket on her, either, not when there's one spire left...

Jesse didn't even hesitate- she shoved the bucket's handle between her teeth and started to climb the side of the spire, eight limbs propelling her to the top of the tower rapidly as Harper came jumping up the 'steps', water slopping down Jesse's front as the bucket swung crazily between her teeth. "The odds of you successfully defeating me," Harper-PAMA spoke, "are 3720 to 1."

"Never tell me the odds!" Jesse retorted, pulling the bucket out of her mouth and upending it over the last redstone block, just as Harper reached the top and tackled her off, a second too late. Water cascaded over the last block, making the last spire's light flicker out and PAMA's screen flash the warning signs again, the glowing room going a full shade dimmer than before.

Jesse gasped as she slammed harshly into the glass floor, but barely had enough time to turn over when Harper lunged on top of her. "This isn't over, Jesse. I will find your homeworld, and make everyone you ever cared for useful. It will be great-"

Jesse had managed to worm all of her limbs below Harper in the struggle, and she suddenly lashed out with all of them, knocking the white-haired woman backwards into the waterfall of... well, water that she'd just caused, electricity arcing everywhere as the chip buzzed with energy and Harper's body spasming from the electric shock. Jesse winced sympathetically at that.

"My Creator!" PAMA exclaimed in a monotone voice, "No!"

The chip went flying off, and Harper blinked slowly, looking tired. "Jes... se?" she eked out, softly.

Jesse felt a relieved grin come over her face, as Harper shuddered a bit. "Ugh. That was worse than I could've imagined..."

"Don't worry, Harper," Jesse said, letting out a soft sigh of relief and looking back at the warning screen, "PAMA's nearly finished."

"Good... Jesse, behind you!" The spider hybrid whipped around at the alarm in the Old Builder's voice, helping Harper to her feet, as the huge structure with the small, pulsing block began to retract choppily into the floor. "Ouchie... detected," PAMA spoke. "Preservation. Protocol. Initiated."

Jesse whipped to the Old Builder, eyes wide. "What's going on?!" she cried out.

"You shorted out the processing towers!" Harper shouted over the blaring and beeping and wailing of alarms that was sounding in the huge cavern, "PAMA's withdrawing the Redstone Heart to save itself!" She grabbed ahold of the spider hybrid's shoulders and began to shake her, "Get to the Redstone Heart and rip it out before it's too late!"

"You bet I will," and Jesse dropped to all eights and ran faster than she'd ever gone before, blurring towards it and jumping for it-

A blur of yellow collided with her, sending Jesse flying backwards with a yelp of pain, tumbling across the floor and landing right back next to Harper with a soft groan of pain.

"We've got company," Harper said, sounding worried now. Jesse straightened up, wincing, but then froze stock still.

Silhouetted dimly against the glowing Redstone Heart, dull red eyes glowing intensely at the spider hybrid, was Lukas.

"Why the heck did I think this would be easy," Jesse sighed, pulling out her sword and axe with a rather worried expression on her face as she regarded the ocelot hybrid.

Harper gave Jesse a worried look. "Your friend looks... tough. You sure you can handle him?" she asked, gray eyes narrowing in concern.

Before Jesse could answer, her mind-controlled friend started speaking, drawing her attention to the blonde ocelot hybrid. "Why keep trying, Jesse," Lukas-PAMA spoke, in an eerily robotic voice that Jesse was still creeped out by. "You will only fail.

"Just as you failed to save Reuben."

Jesse froze, eyes widening, feeling like someone had just shot her in the stomach. For a moment, she was utterly silent and still, not processing any sound that anything was making, even as Lukas's mouth kept moving, even as PAMA kept talking through her best friend, there was no sound. It was utterly silent, the beeping and blaring and everything fading to absolutely nothing, except for a buzzing that was in Jesse's ears, a sort of ringing sound that wasn't going away and was just staying there, her mouth hanging open in utter shock.

A giggle slipped out of her throat. Lukas stopped, him and Harper and PAMA blinking at her in confusion as a dark giggle bubbled out of Jesse, turning into a dark, soft laughing fit. "Oh... okay, PAMA," she spoke, in that venomously sweet voice.

The spider hybrid slowly turned and lifted her head to look directly at the screen, both eyes blazing blood red in the darkness, a poisonously, frighteningly sweet smile plastered on her face, eyes filled with crazed hate and fury and grief. If looks could kill, they wouldn't have had to do anymore work, because PAMA would've ended up being in small pieces all over the floor.

"You're gonna die now."

A/N: Yeah. Jesse's a nice person, and while she does blame herself for Reuben, she's more angry at the fact that PAMA forced Lukas to say something that he would never actually say in real life. And I think we've learned by now that if you insult or hurt her friends, you're gonna get into a lot of trouble.

RapidSammi: Aww, thanks you three :)

Toni42: Lol xD

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