Dear Xara, if you're reading this, I'm already gone. I hid this in the one place I knew you would look for it. Fitting the key to ending all this would be here...where it all started. This is the key to defeating Romeo…#potato451. Take this word of passage and use it at the primary terminal. You can take away his power and end this.

I just wish that Romeo took the news better. He was always the sensitive one. Though I suppose it's our fault for hiding your pregnancy from him. He must have felt betrayed by us. I guess he just couldn't stand the thought of us giving up our powers so we could raise our child together. But you know Romeo. He loves being an Admin and would die before parting with his powers. Xara, you and I both know that by becoming mortals again, we would leave Romeo behind as the only Admin left. Romeo knew that too and blamed our child for tearing us apart. Even now, I can't believe that he would want to kill our unborn baby just so we would never have to leave him. Just the thought itself is too horrible to bear.

Despite everything that happened, I still have hope for Romeo. He just wanted us to stay together...more than anything. I know that's why he's doing this. Maybe I'm being foolish, but I need to know for sure before taking this step. Though I guess if you're here, I got my answer. Maybe someday we'll be together again. My only regret, however, is that I'll never see our baby daughter again. Your friend, always...Fred.

After signing his name, Fred closed the journal with a heavy sigh, then hid it in a chest under Xara's bed. If he had his way, then what he just wrote in the journal would never happen. Unfortunately, the eerie possibility of it was growing more certain with each passing year. Ever since that incident in their home village, their relationship was never the same again. Fred himself had grown much more wise and cautious over the past few thousand years, while Xara had lost her lovable innocence, transforming into a cold and cynical person, though that never stopped Fred from falling in love with her. Romeo may as well have become a dangerous stranger to them. To this day, Fred still kicked himself for climbing up that mountain with his friends. Being Admins had caused them nothing but untold pain and suffering.

After putting Xara's bed back in its place, Fred looked around to make sure that no one else was around - he could never be too sure - and took something out of his inventory. It was a weapon that he had spent five hundred years working on in secret. The weapon was a golden gauntlet, similar to the prismarine one that Romeo was so fond of, but this one was much more powerful, since it had the ability to take away an Admin's powers. Fred had spent countless years researching all he could about Admins and figured out a way to weaken them and revert them back into their human forms. He quickly put it back in his inventory and teleported out of their cabin, careful not to be seen. The last thing he needed was for Romeo to find out about it, which would definitely be the last straw for the already unhinged Admin.

Fred ended up teleporting into the Terminal, an alternate dimension created by him, Romeo, and Xara. Then, after entering the code by placing three rows of blocks, as well as using a potato as the key, he managed to unlock a small pedestal rising from the floor. The pedestal had a small hole in it, which was the perfect size for the golden gauntlet. Glancing around to make sure he was truly alone, Fred placed the gauntlet into the pedestal, which proved to be a perfect fit. Good. And now for the recording.

With a wave of his hand, Fred created a tripod camera out of thin air and placed it in front of him. Then, he turned the camera on and cleared his throat. "Xara...hi. If you're seeing this recording… Well I guess the worst has happened, and you just put the word of Passage into the Primary Terminal. I wish the Terminal could just take away Romeo's Admin powers...it'd be easier that way...but making this gauntlet was the best I could do. Put your hand into the pedestal to receive the gauntlet. It's got the power to make Romeo...normal again. It might take a few hits to remove his powers away entirely… But it'll get the job done. Do you understand? Then good luck, Xara. You're… I think you might need it. Take good care of our baby girl, alright?" With the recording finished, Fred turned off the camera and took out the drive that had the recording in it, then attached it to the pedestal, which lowered itself back into the ground. Then, he made the camera vanish with a wave of his hand. "Alright, now that that's over with, it's time for me to-" "Fred?," said a voice, causing Fred to slightly jump.

Floating behind him was Romeo, who had his arms crossed and was giving a suspicious glare. "What are you doing in the Terminal?," he asked. "Hey, Romeo! Good to see you," said Fred, trying to act as casual as possible. "I'm just...visiting for a while. I haven't been here in a very long time, so I decided to come here...you know, for old time's sake." "Uh huh," said Romeo, raising an eyebrow. "Well, when I entered the Terminal, I thought I saw you with a camera for a second. Mind telling me what you were REALLY doing?"

Fred mentally cursed his luck. "Oh, the camera?," he said. "Well, I've developed a hobby of...recording everything I see. It's just a harmless way to pass the time, trust me. What about you, Romeo? Got any hobbies you want to share?" "No," said Romeo, still giving Fred a suspicious look. "Hobbies are a waste of time, if you ask me." Fred chuckled nervously. "Well, that's a shame," he said. "Hobbies are actually pretty fun. You should try them."

"...sure," said Romeo, staring right into Fred's soul. "Maybe I will." There was a tense and awkward silence between them afterwards. Fred remembered a time when Romeo was very easy to approach and share your feelings with. Now, he was like a dangerous predator that you might stumble on in the woods at night. The powers had gone to his head. Romeo the Admin and Romeo the bookworm were two completely different people.

"...well!," said Fred, clapping his hands together. "This is fun, but I have some errands to run, so I'll see you later, alright?" Before Romeo could respond, Fred teleported away. Before even a second had passed after Fred left the Terminal, Romeo quickly flew towards where the code had to be entered to access the Terminal. He squinted his eyes and looked closely. Then, his eyes widened in realization. The code had been tampered with! "You liar…," Romeo growled, clenching his hands into fists. "You backstabbing, treacherous liar!"

Fred quickly teleported into Xara's bedroom. He made it just in time. "Where the hell were you, Fred?!," yelled Xara, sweat pouring down her face as she laid in bed. Her stomach bulged out like a balloon. "I've been holding in this baby for so long! I can't stand it anymore!" "Xara, sweetie, I got you," Fred said frantically, nervously running to Xara's bedside. "Here, grab my hand." Xara reached out and grabbed Fred's hand, nearly crushing every bone in it. "Oh god, she's coming out!," Xara screamed. "She's coming! Dear lord, WHY HAS NOBODY EVER TOLD ME HOW PAINFUL GIVING BIRTH WAS GONNA BE?!"

"You're doing great, dear, you're doing great," said Fred, peeking under the blankets. "I see the top of her head now. She's coming out, Xara. Just hold on a little bit longer." "What the fuck do you think I've been doing?!," cried Xara, squeezing Fred's hand tighter. "Xara…," Fred moaned, his knees beginning to buckle. "Dear, you're crushing my hand…"

"You don't get to complain!," yelled Xara, her face turning purple. "You don't know pain like I do right now, Fred!" Both of them began to hear the cries of an infant growing louder and louder. "You're almost there, Xara," said Fred. "Just one. More. Push!"

With one final scream, Xara pushed with all of her might. Fred gently pulled out a small, squirming infant who had blue skin the color of diamonds, a golden yellow nose, and short, silver hair. "Oh my god," Fred whispered, staring at this absolute treasure. "She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." "Give her to me," Xara replied tiredly, reaching out her hands pathetically. After being given the baby, Xara held her close to her face. The baby giggled and booped Xara's nose with a stubby little finger, causing her nose to scrunch up. "I honestly don't know who's cuter now, you or our baby girl," Fred joked. Xara stuck her tongue out jokingly. "She really is beautiful," she agreed. "What should we name her?"

Before Fred could answer, the entire room suddenly shook violently, causing Fred to lose his balance and for Xara to fall out of her bed. Fortunately, she was able to keep the baby safe in her arms. "What was that?!," she asked fearfully, wincing painfully as she got back up. "Xara, don't stand up so fast," Fred warned. "You just gave birth, after all." Xara gave Fred a heated glare. "I'm a goddamn Admin, Fred," she said. "I can handle this."

The room shook again, nearly causing them both to lose their footing. "What's going on?," asked Xara, looking around frantically. "Are we being attacked?" "It's not just us, Xara," said Fred, gloomily looking out the window. "Take a look." Xara joined her husband at the window, and her jaw dropped at what she saw. There were fireballs raining down from the sky, explosions in the distance, and terrified people running for their lives from all kinds of strange mobs. It didn't take long for them to piece together what was happening. "Romeo," Xara growled. "This is his doing." "My god," Fred whispered, his eyes glued to the chaos outside. "I knew he'd do something terrible, but...nothing like this!" "Fred, this is the same guy who killed everyone in our home village!," Xara snapped. Her outburst scared the baby, who began crying. "Shhh, don't cry, mommy's here," whispered Xara. "Shhhhh."

In any other circumstance, Fred would have cooed at the motherly sight, but now was definitely not the time. Everything he wrote in the journal...everything he feared...was coming true. "Our baby!," Xara suddenly cried, her eyes wide with fearful realization. "Didn't Romeo threaten to kill her more times than we can count? What if he's on his way here?! Fred, we need to get out of here before he arrives!" She tried tugging on Fred's arm, but the Admin wouldn't budge. "Fred, why are you just standing there? We need to leave now!"

"...I can't," said Fred, shaking his head morosely. "We can't just abandon him like that. Romeo may have changed, but there's still some part of him inside that remembers all the good times we had. I know it." Xara gawked at Fred. "You mean you want to TALK to him?!," she hissed. "That will never work! He'll do anything to get to our baby, even if it means going through you! I'm not letting you risk your life like that!" "Xara, this is something I HAVE to do," Fred pleaded. "Look, I'll do all the talking. I'll convince him somehow."

"Fred, this is a stupid plan, and you know it!," Xara hissed at Fred angrily. "Romeo's too far gone by now! You won't be able to reason with him!" Fred shook his head in denial. "Deep down, Romeo's still our friend," he argued. "If I can just talk some sense into him…" "There IS no sense left in him!," yelled Xara. "He wants to kill our baby, Fred! We have to run away before he gets here!" The baby in her arms suddenly began crying and wriggling around. "Shh, it's alright," Xara whispered, rocking it back and forth. "Mommy's here."

"Xara, I have to at least try," Fred said softly. "Romeo has become unhinged, I know that just as well as you do, but we've all been through too much together. I can't just give up on him like that." Suddenly, a loud explosion occurred just outside the building, causing the entire room to shake violently. "He's already here," Fred whispered, staring at the door in fear. "Xara, I need you to hide in the closet and keep absolutely quiet. Let me deal with him." "I'm not going to leave you to fend for yourself!," Xara whispered angrily. "What if...what if Romeo…" She wasn't able to finish her sentence before her voice started cracking. "Xara," said Fred, firmly looking her in the eye. "Think of the baby." Xara looked at the crying bundle in her arms with sadness, then nodded hesitantly. "Okay…," she said uncertainly. "Be safe."

Xara immediately went to a closet nearby and hid inside it with the baby. No sooner did she close the door on herself when the room's front door suddenly blew open, flying and crashing into the opposite wall. Romeo entered the room right after, glaring at Fred with clear disdain. "Hello, Fred," he growled in hatred. "Hello, Romeo," Fred replied casually, though he couldn't hide the sadness in his voice. He barely even recognized Romeo anymore. "So where is it now, Fred?," asked Romeo, looking around the room. "Might as well hand it over and save us the trouble." Fred frowned angrily. "'Her,' Romeo, not 'it,'" he said. Romeo rolled his eyes. "Her, it, whatever," he said crossly. "Is she here right now? And what about Xara?"

"Neither of them are here, Romeo," Fred lied. "It's just the two of us." His frown softened. "Romeo, I want to talk things out with you." Romeo snorted. "It's a bit too late for that, I'm afraid," he snapped. "Romeo," Fred repeated. "Please, you need to call off your attack. You need to stop all of...this." He gestured to the windows, showing that there was nothing outside but chaos and destruction. "And why should I?!," yelled Romeo. "You and Xara were about to leave me! I thought we were close, but then you had to HOOK UP with Xara and create some sort of...abomination!" "That 'abomination' is my daughter!," Fred snapped. "Romeo, this isn't goodbye forever. You could still visit us anytime you like. You have that power."

"But you and Xara will still be giving up your powers!," said Romeo. "What would I do without you two to rule by my side?! What would I do once I outlive you both and end up all alone?! Answer me that!" "You can give up your powers too," Fred replied calmly. "We can live as mortals together." "...you know I can't do that, Fred," said Romeo quietly. Fred sighed heavily and shook his head in disappointment. "It's as I feared," he said sadly. "You've become too dependent on your powers, Romeo. It's gotten to the point where you can't even part with them." His hands clenched into fists and he shook his head angrily. "We never should've gone looking for the Old Man of the Sky. We never should've wished to become Admins. Look what it's done to you! Look what it's done to US!" "There is still a solution, Fred," said Romeo. "You can hand over the baby and let me kill it- I mean, her. Look, I'll make it as painless for her as possible. You won't even have to look. Just...tell me where she is and I'll handle the rest." Inside the closet, Xara's entire body was shaking in both fear and anger.

Fred shook his head. "I can't do that, Romeo. I'd never forgive myself." He walked towards Romeo, grabbed him by the shoulders, and looked him square in the eye. "Romeo, try seeing this from me and Xara's point of view," he said. "We're tired of being Admins, and we don't want our child to grow up just as unhappy as we are. We just want to live normal lives and raise a normal family. Can you understand that?" Romeo looked down, his eyes covered in shadows. "I thought WE were a family," he said shakily. At first, it looked like Fred had finally gotten through to him...until Romeo suddenly plunged his fist into Fred's chest.

Xara screamed at the sight of her own husband being brutally murdered by her friend, but thankfully, Fred's own scream was loud enough to cover hers up. Fred slumped to the ground lifelessly, a gaping hole in his chest. Romeo looked down at his fallen friend with wide eyes. "What have I done?," he whispered to himself before shaking his head. Now was not the time to mourn. With a wave of his hand, he summoned forth a shadowy being with no humanoid features apart from shape and size. "Find it, Null," Romeo ordered. "Fred lied to me when he said we were the only ones in the room. The baby has to be in here somewhere." Null nodded and suddenly split up into several copies of himself, each one seeming to have a mind of its own and thoroughly searching the room. It would only be a matter of time before they find Xara and the baby hiding in the closet. Xara peeked through the closet door and cursed under her breath. "Damn you, Romeo," she growled. "Damn you and your Virus."

Suddenly, her eyes widened. "Virus...of course!," she whispered. Holding the baby in one arm, she held her other hand to her mouth and breathed a mist of red air into it. The mist solidified into a sphere in the palm of her hand, and she crushed the sphere with her fingers, carefully molding it like a piece of clay. Finally, she opened her hand, revealing a newly born Virus that was about the size of an egg. He had red eyes and a tiny, white hoodie. "Listen very carefully," Xara whispered to the Virus in her hand. Outside, Romeo and Null's clones were trashing the entire room. "Your name is Entity 303," Xara continued. "I created you, so you have to do whatever I tell you. Do you see my baby?" She held the bundle towards Entity 303. The baby saw the Virus and began babbling happily, reaching out to him as if he was a new toy for her to play with. Entity 303 gave her a small, nervous smile.

"That baby is my newborn daughter," said Xara. "She means the world to me. Now I have a very important job for you. I'm assigning you to be her new guardian. That means you will stay with her, keep her happy, and protect her from any harm. You must also inform her of her heritage as an Admin and prepare her for when she inevitably meets Romeo. Right now, she's our only hope for salvation. Do you understand?" Entity 303 hesitated for a little bit, then nodded shyly. "Good," sighed Xara. "Alright, in you go." With a small gesture of her hand, she sent the Virus into the baby's head, implanting him into her mind.

Right at that moment, the closet door was ripped from its hinges. "I found it, my Admin," said Null, peering into the closet. "And Xara is with it." Xara glared at the Null clone and quickly shot a laser beam at him from her hand, causing him to disintegrate. The rest of the Null clones immediately sensed that one of them was gone and reassembled back together. Xara glared at Null, then at Romeo, clutching the baby to her chest protectively. "Xara? That's where you were hiding?," asked Romeo, glancing at Fred's corpse uneasily. "You...you saw…?"

"Yes, I did," Xara growled. "How could you? How could you do that to Fred?!" "He left me no choice," said Romeo, glaring at the baby in her arms. "Xara, hand it over. I don't want to kill you too." Xara responded by clutching the baby tighter while taking a step back. Romeo narrowed his eyes before looking at Null. "Take it from her!," he ordered. "Yes, my Admin," said Null, his arms elongating and reaching towards the baby. "Don't you DARE!," Xara yelled, a shield of pure energy suddenly appearing around her and the baby, causing Null's hands to pull back in pain. "I...I am sorry, my Admin," Null whispered in shame. "I'm just a Virus. I don't stand a chance against her." "Seriously?!," Romeo groaned, rolling his eyes. "Fine! Take the day off or something! Ugh, useless." Null flinched at the poorly veiled insult, but complied and vanished in a puff of black smoke, going who-knows-where. "That Virus is going to rebel against you if you keep treating him like that," Xara snarked. Romeo scoffed. "Yeah, that'll be the day," he said dismissively. "Xara, I won't repeat myself. Hand that baby over."

"Why, so you could kill her like you did to Fred?!," hissed Xara. "You've become a monster, Romeo! You're no better than that old man now!" "I am NOTHING like Notch!," Romeo snapped. "You don't see ME turning little girls into statues!" "Oh, and covering the entire world in bedrock is SO much better!," Xara replied sarcastically. "XARA!," roared Romeo, his patience finally breaking. "HAND! IT! OVER!" He looked at the baby closely and narrowed his eyes when he saw what looked like tiny crackles of red lightning swarming around her eyes. "You implanted a Virus into it?," he asked, chuckling mockingly. "Xara, how stupid are you to think that a Virus would be enough to protect it from me, an Admin?" Before Xara could react, Romeo suddenly shot a pitch black laser at the baby. For some reason, the laser didn't seem to do anything, but knowing Romeo, that was definitely not the case. "What have you done?!," Xara cried in horror, staring at the infant. Romeo smirked. "I just put a little curse on that thing, no big deal," he chuckled. "Let's just say she'll have a...harder time using those Admin powers."

"You...you monster," Xara growled. Suddenly, she used her powers to turn the baby into a nether reactor core, then teleport the block somewhere. Romeo stared at Xara's now empty arms, his mouth wide open in both shock and anger. "What did you just do?!," he yelled angrily. "Where the hell is the baby?!" Xara only flipped him the bird.

Romeo didn't take kindly to that at all. "You...you…" He was too angry to finish his sentence. "What are you going to do now, Romeo?," spat Xara. "Kill me?" Romeo calmed down and shook his head. "No...losing one friend today was enough." He clapped his hands and summoned forth an orange block with multiple blinking lights. The command block. Xara's eyes widened. "Romeo...what the hell did you create?," she asked. "Oh, this?," Romeo said casually. "Just something that I've been working on in my spare time." He clapped a second time, causing the block to shoot a laser at Xara before she could even react. Instead of killing her, the beam began stripping her powers away, reverting her yellow skin back to its original light brown color. Xara screamed in pain, then fell unconscious after her powers were fully gone.

Romeo looked down at Xara's still body, his expressions ranging from furious, to indifferent, to melancholy. He shook his head in disgust and looked up in thought. "I'll find that baby," he vowed to himself, "even if I have to tear the whole world apart. And as for THIS one..." He chuckled bitterly. "There's nothing left for me here anyway." With a single clap, he teleported away. Not long after, a layer of bedrock began to cover the whole sky. Everyone saw what was happening and cried out in grief and horror, but there was nothing they could do. Once every inch of the sky was covered up, the whole world was engulfed in total darkness. This was when everything changed in an instant. This was when the Underneath was born.