A flock of chickens were clucking around on the bridge, when a crowd of people stampeded through them, sending several of them flying and feathers fluttering through the air. Among them was Aiden.

Lizzie raised her eyebrow. "Yeah, you'll totally kick that Wither-thing's butt."

Aiden scowled at her.

Jesse skidded to a stop at the back of the crowd, her path blocked by a flood of chickens. "Get out of the way, you chickens!" she shouted desperately, looking around in a panic for a path through them to avoid stomping on any of them.

The screen switched to the dome roof, as it suddenly shattered, collapsing in on itself as a humongous black cloud-like thing with waving tentacles rose from the wreckage of the keynote, the one indigo eye sending out a tractor beam and sucking people up, giving off a vicious roar. As if to make things worse, two twin roars mingled with the single one, two more heads sending out their own tractor beams.

"Oh Notch," Olivia said, faintly. She looked like she might pass out in fear.

Jesse grunted and leaped over the chickens, racing away as fast as she could. Two of the tractor beams started shining ahead, where Axel and Olivia could be spotted, sucking up blocks and even people, which disappeared into the mass that had become the Wither.

"Oh Notch," Petra agreed, looking a bit queasy.

Jesse was racing along the bridge when suddenly she was bathed in indigo light, and she let out a loud gasp as she started to rise into the air, part of the bridge coming with her and breaking apart with a tremendous cracking sound.

"JESSE!" Axel yelled, eyes wide.

Olivia clapped her hands over her eyes. "Not Jesse, not Jesse, not Jesse-!" she chanted in a hot panic, as if that would do any good. Jace put a hand on her shoulder, chancing a glance at Jesse, said girl staring hard at the screen.

"Guys! Help! I'm up here!" Jesse yelled, her hands just barely having managed to catch the stone bridge. But the others were gone, lost in the chaos Endercon had become. Her hand slipped- Olivia squeaked-

Jesse shoved out her hand, a strand of silk shooting out of the tractor beam and slamming into the ground. She stopped rising towards the Wither, and she slowly began to pull herself forward, using the string like a robe. Slowly, her head emerged from the beam, then her torso-

She toppled out the rest of the way, smacking hard onto her back before doing a little flip in midair and slamming down onto her stomach.

The audience winced sympathetically.

"Holy Notch, that hurt," she moaned, getting to her feet and staggering a step, before regaining her balance and bolting through the crowd, many people screaming as they got sucked into the tractor beam. She spotted Lukas as she looked around frantically and ran towards him. "Lukas!" she yelled.

The blonde whirled around to face her again, face white, body shaking like a leaf, eyes wide. "Holy crap!" he cried out. "Oh man, if I was still in that basement..."

Real-Lukas gulped and gave Jesse an even more grateful look. She smiled back at him upon spotting it.

Onscreen, Jesse shuddered a bit in fear. "Thanks, Jesse," Lukas said sincerely, gratitude shining in his eyes, "I wouldn't be here without you."

"Jesse!" And both of them looked over to see Petra, Olivia, Axel, and Reuben crouching under a booth. The two of them were quick to make their way over, but they'd hardly gotten there when a tractor beam sucked it up.

"Oh Notch, run you idiots!" Magnus yelled frantically.

That was exactly what they did- the entire group scattered with screams of fright. Jesse jolted to her feet, looking around. "Wait! Wait! We have to stick together..."

She was cut off by a scream. Jesse whirled around on the spot.

Petra was rising into the air, a tractor beam resting on her, flailing her arms desperately.

"PETRA!" Most of the audience yelled.

"Help me!" Petra screamed out, reaching towards Jesse.

"Oh, Notch, I'm so sorry, Petra!" Olivia squeaked. "We must've been too panicked to notice-!"

"It's okay, Jesse's got me," Petra quickly assured her.

The black-haired girl jumped into the air and wrapped her fingers around Petra's wrist, the other one seizing ahold of a fencepost. The tractor beam didn't move, and Jesse's feet began to rise off of the ground into the air, the fencepost starting to wobble. "I can't... hold on...!" she cried out.

Petra's hands had started to shake a bit. "Or... maybe not..." she trailed off.

Jesse and Petra both screamed as the fencepost broke onscreen.

Reuben let out a terrified squeal. Lukas was actually perched on the edge of his seat while Petra was starting to bite her nails, trying to keep her teeth from chattering in fear. Jace had the girl next to him in a death hug, Olivia's head buried firmly in her hands, while Axel had actually covered his eyes in fear. The rest of the audience was glued to the sight of the two of them rising into the air-

A hand barely missed grabbing Jesse's, and the black-haired girl's eyes widened and then narrowed as she drew her arm back and then shoved it out, firing a string that barely missed Gabriel's face. The warrior seized ahold of it and yanked down, drawing Jesse barely into arm's reach, before grabbing her hand and pulling downwards with all of his strength.

The tractor beam happened to move away right then, and all three of them toppled to the ground, Jesse scraping the silk off her hand in the process.

"Go, Gabriel!" Dan cheered, making the warrior smile sheepishly at him.

"Thanks!" Jesse exclaimed to the warrior onscreen, and he nodded in return.

The others ran back over, having noticed that Petra and Jesse were in trouble. Jesse's eyes flicked over them rapidly, worry written all over her face as the grateful and relieved look she'd had only seconds before faded. "Do we have everybody?" she asked, worriedly.

"We must set out for my fortress. We'll be better protected there!" Gabriel shouted, before starting to run. Everyone else followed suit, running past the Enderman fireworks launcher at the entrance as it got sucked up into a tractor beam.

Onscreen, Petra looked over at Jesse with grateful eyes. "Thanks for that just now, Jesse," she panted out.

"Yeah, well, now we're even-" Jesse cut off her own joking tone with a gasp, the screen whirling to face the Witherstorm, which had started to pursue them for some reason. A flaming skull shot out at them.

"Incoming!" Petra yelled, tackling Jesse, Reuben, and herself to one side as the flaming skull blasted a crater in the street.

"Now you owe me again," Petra teased halfheartedly.

Scrambling to their feet, they all bolted again. Jesse had fallen behind the others, who were already out of the gate. Which is perhaps why the gate started closing.

"What are they even doing?!" Olivia shouted, "all they're doing is trapping people in there! Jesse might be one of them!"

"Whose dumb idea was it to shut the gates anyway?!" Stacy grouched, as if anyone knew the answer.

"Why in Notch's sake would they close the gates- this dumb thing can FLY!" Jesse yelled onscreen, leaning forward to run faster, but it was pretty obvious she wasn't going to make it-

She gasped as she tripped forward, the screen zooming in on her face as the sound of ripping fabric could be heard. Jesse's eyes flicked down, and she gasped as the screen whipped down to reveal-

"WHOA!" and Nell bolted upright. Not that she was the only one- the entire audience had similar reactions. Jesse herself looked downright shocked.

Onscreen, Jesse's hands slammed into the ground. All six of them. She stared down at her two new sets of arms, before shaking her head and looking back up, the gate nearly closed. Her eyes narrowed, and she bolted forward, using all eight of her limbs to propel herself across the ground, shooting out from the tiny space between the gate and ground moments before it slammed shut.

"Well, at least we're all out," Lukas sighed with relief. "I can only hope the same for the other Ocelots."

The Wither turned around to face the direction they'd been running, and started to hover in their direction.

"Wait- that thing is chasing us- why is that thing chasing us?" Jesse asked, eyes narrowing.

"Gabriel must've gotten out as well," Ivor said.

Gabriel twisted to glare at the black-haired man. "You got that thing to target me-?! Do you realize how- how idiotic that is?!" he nearly shouted. Ivor would've replied, but the warrior had already turned back around to stare at the screen.

Jesse looked around onscreen to see Olivia bleeping out of sight and back in at different distances. She seemed a little dizzy, though, because she kept stumbling whenever she landed. Petra was gliding acutely, whenever landing using her legs to launch herself forward again and covering greater distance than she would've had she been sprinting.

"That," Nell spoke, "is awesome."

"Agreed," Jesse said, although she was obviously still preoccupied.

Onscreen, Jesse looked around to see that Axel had scooped Reuben up and thrown him onto his back, having gone to all fours and now moving forward at a speed that most humans probably couldn't reach. Lukas was on all fours as he bolted forward, tripping every couple of steps on his tail, and everyone could see a pair of cat-like ears poking through his hair.

"Holy crap," Lukas summarized, goggling at the screen.

Jesse looked around some more- Gill and Aiden were dodging through the burning forest along with some of the other townspeople.

"Wait, where's Maya?" Jace asked, eyes narrowing in concern. The only female member of the Ocelots looked as though she was going to burst into tears any second now.

Jesse had caught up to where her friends were, and was barely able to exchange a nod with them before they all had to scatter as a black tentacle slammed into the ground where they'd all started clumping together.

Jesse shot back upright, staggering a step, before charging forward and leaping over the tentacle that had slammed down over her path, clearing it, stumbling upon landing, and bolting forward into the temple.

Gabriel was flipping levers with such intensity it was a bit of a surprise that none of them were broken as the others bolted down the steps. "The inner chamber is made of obsidian- we should be untouchable in there!" he shouted as the doors slid open to reveal a room made totally of obsidian, a Nether Portal sitting in the center of the room. Before anything else could be said, purple light flooded into the room.

"Hurry!" Gabriel yelled, drawing his sword, "if you can get through the portal, you'll be safe!"

Axel charged through the unlit portal, but then paused on the other side when nothing happened. "Uh, something's not right here!"

Jesse patted her pockets- and then again. Her eyes widened, and her mouth dropped open.

"That's- that's not a good sign, is it?" Lizzie asked, blue eyes narrowing in worry.

"Oh crap!" Jesse cried out onscreen, "I must've dropped the flint and steel just now! I can't find it!"

Petra spewed out a twenty-word-long string of swears. Nobody bothered to get angry at her about it.

All five of them shared a panicked look, before Petra sighed and held her left arm out. Fire spit out of her palm and slammed into the Nether Portal, making a purple swirling curtain explode into being in the archway.

"Petra-" Axel began, his eyes wide.

"Look, I know that was freaky, but we don't have time to worry about it right now!" Petra almost screamed at him, gold eyes sparking in panic, "get in, now!"

Axel scooped Reuben up- making the pig squeal in surprise- after about a moment's hesitation, and charged in through the portal, disappearing in a flash of purple light. Olivia was quick to follow.

But before Petra, Lukas, and Jesse could follow, there was a loud yell.

"Wait, we're the only ones who made it-?! What about Aiden and Gill?! They were in the crowd!" Petra almost yelled, bouncing in place from where she was seated on the armchair.

Jesse whirled around to see Gabriel getting towed out of the obsidian room by a tentacle. "Gabriel!" she yelled, running back and engaging in a game of tug-of-war with the tentacle, feet skidding across the ground as she yanked with all her might.

Her lower arms twitched, making her look down at them, before they reached out and seized Gabriel by the forearms. She struggled for a moment more, before yanking him out of the tentacle's grip, the tentacle choosing to retreat rather than following Gabriel and knocking down two people trying to make their way inside.

"Thank you," Gabriel thanked the girl, looking surprisingly unsurprised about Jesse's extra arms, before turning back to the doorway, expression growing more somber. "There are so many of them... I can't- I can't save them all... I can't stop this by myself. We have to find the others."

"Er... others?" Magnus asked, sounding a little worried. "Please tell me you know another group of legendary heroes..."

Jesse blinked at him rapidly, green eye flickering with worry. "The... others?" she asked, slowly.

"Soren's been missing for years," Gabriel continued, "but the others- you must seek them out."

"Nope, he means us. Fantastic."

Gabriel reached into his pocket and pulled out an amulet. There was a blue gem encircled with gold in the circle, surrounded by four crystals and a darker ring, before some small protuberances of gold on the end of each crystal finished the look. There was a red gem, a green one, a cyan one, and a white one. The cyan gem was glowing brightly. "Take this amulet, and guard it with your life."

Jesse took it, looking at it with this supremely confused look. "Wh-what do I do with it?" she asked.

"Take it through the portal, and then-"

He was interrupted by a tremendous smashing sound, both of them looking up as a tentacle smashed through the ceiling, one of the heads peering in. Jesse dove out of the way as it slammed down between her and Gabriel, cracking the ground with the force it hit the floor with. Petra let out a yell, and Jesse whipped around to see the redhead getting knocked away with another one.

Jesse charged and slammed it away, and although it didn't do much damage, it was enough to keep the Wither at bay for a few moments.

Lukas let out a scream, quaking near the portal, his ears flattened against his head. Petra rushed up and slashed a tentacle away from him, Jesse skidding up to them a minute later.

"You two, go through the portal and meet up with the others," Petra ordered them. "I'll stay behind to do whatever I can."

"Petra, no! You're gonna get yourself killed!" Axel yelled.

Petra started to run back into the fray, pausing when neither of them moved. "Guys, GO! Now!"

"I'll stay with you-" Jesse began, but Petra was quick to cut her off.

"No. The others need you, Jesse," she responded firmly. "I'll meet you guys at the temple!"

Another yell, and they all whipped around to see the warrior caught up in a tractor beam. Petra and Jesse both charged towards him, but suddenly indigo light hit Petra, and the redhead started rising into the air with a panicked scream.

"Oh no!" Olivia gasped.

"NO!" Jesse shouted, whirling around again. "Lukas!"

She stopped a minute later- Lukas was shaking so hard he was nearly vibrating, eyes so wide they were the size of bowling balls, his hair and tail standing on end in pure fright.

"Oh, Notch, you froze," Olivia goggled, staring at Real-Lukas, "you froze..."

"Grab one of them, quick!" Dan yelled, flailing his arms and nearly hitting Stampy in the face.

Jesse bit her lip, looking frantically from Gabriel to Petra, before jumping up and grabbing Petra by the leg, heaving her back down to the floor and both of them landing flat on their backs.

Petra breathed a sigh of relief. "Thanks, Jess."

"Thanks, Jesse. Gabriel's still up there-!" Petra exclaimed onscreen, her eyes widening.

Jesse scrambled to her feet and shoved out her palm, but just as the string started firing, a tentacle came slamming down next to her and she jumped, making the string fly off target. She gritted her teeth and ripped it off, getting ready to try again. Gabriel twisted around. "Jesse! Go!" he yelled at her.

"No!" Jesse repeated, running for him and raising her hand to try again-

A tentacle came flying out of nowhere and slammed right into Jesse, sending her flying backwards, slamming straight into Lukas and knocking the both of them into the portal. The screen blacked out.

"Oh Notch," Jesse whispered, her arms wrapped tightly around Reuben. "Oh Notch, I hope everyone's gonna be okay..."

"I'm sure I'll be fine. I've survived too much to die now," Petra said, although her hands tightening on the armchair's arms said otherwise.


A/N: Welp this happened xD I literally cannot wait to write the next chapter.

RQTC: How did you discover MCSM?

Guest: Mmmm the second one. I like Endermen better. (No offense to those who like creepers more xD)

Meow Shadow: Hehehe xD I'm glad you like this so much! And no spoilers, alrighty? x3 You'll find out once I get to that point and not one minute before then xD And cool! Haha, I know what you mean, reviews are like that sometimes.

ahnjoseph87: Hahaha xD Here's another chapter. And thank you! I'm glad people are enjoying it. It's interesting to try to invent stuff so that the scenes flow together more smoothly.

Emily The Avenger: Nice! xD And I'm really glad you like the story so far.

AquaK13: Heehee x3

MissyMattingly: Thank you! I really like writing, so it's fun to write stuff like this.

Guest: Heehee x3

Kaos Ruin: The Jesse everyone else knows is the Male Jesse, but since the main Jesse of Hybrid is female, I had to figure out a way to incorporate her properly.

LittleAngelbun: Nice dude x3

rebekahtpe: (cracks up) Yeah, best one ever. Heehee xD I'm glad people like it so much. And Pine. Definitely Pine. Don't ask me why though xD

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: Niiiice. xD I do that too. And yeah, haha xD

RapidSammi: Coolio x3 And wow, you've reread it more times than I have xD

Guest: Nice, and thank you!

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