The screen came back on to a loud yell as Jesse slammed onto a stone floor roughly, although the water did carry her a few more feet away before vanishing. She lay there on her back for a moment, gasping for breath, as Reuben fell out of another chute and bounced off her stomach.

"What's with you all landing on each other?" Magnus mused. "I mean, first it was Goggles on top of Alex-"

"Axel-"

"Probably a few more times that I can't recall," Magnus continued, completely ignoring Axel's complaint, "then the big guy on top of Blondie in the tunnel, then the pig on Tiny."

Jesse sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Do you even know any of our names?" she asked, after a minute.

Magnus shrugged noncommittally at her. "I could recall them if I took a second. I'm just not really bothered."

"Right. Thanks. That's very nice of you."

Reuben nudged Jesse, who slowly sat up with wide eyes and looked around at her surroundings for a moment. The screen changed to show her sitting right in front of a blue stained-glass tube with a spider eye and other objects inside the tube floating upwards. The screen zoomed out to show that there were more tubes in the room with a variety of items, and a huge delivery system comprised of minecart-chests rushing past on different tracks.

"That's composed of so much redstone, stone, tracks, stained glass... everything..." Jesse flailed her arms momentarily at the screen with wide eyes, before dropping them to twist and look at Soren. "It's actually kind of dizzying, y'know that?" She paused after a moment before flailing her hands again, grinning sheepishly. "Um, in a good way, though."

"Wow," onscreen-Jesse finally spoke slowly, looking upwards with her eyes wide.

More water came gushing down from the holes in the ceiling, making Jesse's head snap back around. Several waterfalls splashed down and washed Lukas to Jesse's feet, Petra to the foot of one of the tubes, and Olivia onto a random, previously dry patch on the floor.

Groaning, the three of them slowly managed to get to their feet. Jesse's eyes moved slightly to see that the pool of water Petra had been touching had frost icing them, before back at her friends.

"I thought water was supposed to break a fall," Lukas groaned, standing up and having his blonde hair flop into his eyes. Jesse covered her mouth as she giggled a bit at his new hairstyle.

Real-Lukas blushed and rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly as the rest of the audience smirked at this.

Lukas raked his hand through his hair back into its usual messy, spiky-ish hairstyle, wincing slightly as his fingers snagged the corners of his ears slightly, and Jesse looked around at the group. "Is everyone okay?" she asked, her demeanor becoming more serious, "w-we're all good?"

Lukas gave Jesse a sheepish grin, his ocelot ears twitching. "Well... definitely not thirsty anymore."

Both Real-Jesse and Onscreen-Jesse stifled a laugh at that. Onscreen Jesse reached out and patted him on the shoulder, still smothering a grin. "Yep, you're perfectly fine."

Olivia smirked at the exchange, shaking out her soaking-wet hair. "We're good," she agreed tiredly.

Petra was looking around, brushing her wet hair out of her eyes. "Hey," she asked, slowly, "where's-?"

She was cut off by more screaming, and more water splashed across the already-wet floor as Axel plummeted out of one of the holes and landing right on top of Lukas, who was knocked back to the floor with a yelp.

"Never mind."

Lukas stared at the screen, mouth gaping open in dismay. "Again? A-friggin'-gain?"

Axel winced and rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry, dude."

"No, no," Axel said onscreen, somehow not realizing he was sitting on top of Lukas, "don't worry, I'm totally fine." He grinned at Jesse reassuringly.

Beneath him, Lukas let out a low moan. "Whhyyyy..."

"Oh, crap!" and Axel practically jumped off of the ocelot hybrid, eyes wide. "I'm sorry."

Reuben let out an excited series of oinks, rushing over to Axel. Lukas tried to get up, but his hand landed in a slippery patch of water and he went back down.

Real-Jesse patted a wincing Lukas on the back sympathetically.

Onscreen, Jesse went over and helped Lukas to his feet, as Axel put Reuben under his arm and walked over to the black-haired girl, grinning widely at her. "I knew you'd come for us. I just knew it. Reuben had his doubts," and he jerked his head at the little pig. "I owe you. If there ever comes a time I can pay you back for that, I will, with interest."

"You would've done the same for me," Jesse said, gesturing at him faintly before touching her collarbone to indicate herself. "You don't have to do that."

"Yes I do," and Axel glomped Jesse, knocking her into Lukas and knocking the three of them onto the floor with an 'oof!' upon impact. Olivia, Petra and Jace all grinned at each other as the three of them scrambled to disentangle themselves from the pile they'd just fallen into.

Jesse gave him a grin and gave the burly male a big hug. "I'm just glad you're okay." And she looked around the room upon releasing him, a warm smile coming over her face. "All of you."

Hadrian hummed, making all of them look at him. "You really care about your friends, don't you?"

Jesse hesitated for a moment, before saying quietly, "Yeah." She turned back to the screen, and a strange, soft smile came over her face. "I do."

Axel squinted at Jesse for a moment. "There's something different about you, Jesse."

Jesse blinked at him onscreen curiously.

"You're..." Axel spotted the tubes that were going through the glass floor and trailed off. "Hang on, hang on, hang on," he chanted, peeking down at the floor and the loot going through it, "this is where all the loot gets sorted, right?"

Olivia looked down at the floor herself before looking back up and nodding. "Yep. That's precisely what it is."

"See that? Things are starting to turn around," Axel replied, grinning at them.

There was a long pause before Isa rubbed her temples, looking as though she'd just developed a headache. "Well... that certainly ruined the moment..."

"Yeah. Can't believe you did that, Axel. It looked like you were going to say something important," Petra agreed, shaking her head slightly, although there was a faintly amused smile on her face anyway.

Onscreen, Jesse blinked again, before smiling with a small shake of the head. "Axel?"

"Yeah?"

Jesse stood up on her tiptoes and ruffled his hair, making him grin at her. "Don't ever change."

Axel reached out and squished her cheeks between his hands. "Awww, you love us!" he teased.

"Leggo my face!"

"It's cool what you did up there," Petra spoke, making Jesse look at her, "we stick together, and we'll be fine. It's good to know you're not letting all this get to your head. I was worried it might."

Jesse smiled at Petra, neatly folding all of her hands behind her back. "Thanks, Petra. Means a ton."

"Everyone's looking at you to lead..." Petra paused, and then glanced over Jesse's shoulder. "Well, actually, maybe not EVERYONE..."

Jesse turned to see Lukas, who was examining the amulet. "Looks like it's still working..." he mused.

"Of course it's still working!" Soren exclaimed, sounding incredibly miffed at the idea that it might be broken. "Do you know how hard I worked on that? I made sure it was practically indestructible."

"Ah, yeah," and Jesse turned around to face Lukas with a sincere smile. "Thanks so much for grabbing that back up there. Could I please have it back?"

Lukas turned to her with a small smile, ears twitching slightly. "No problem."

The white glow suddenly brightened a moment before it landed in Jesse's palm, and he gasped and jerked back again. "Hang on a moment... he's close... Soren's close by." He pointed it at a stone archway leading into an adjacent room. "He's gotta be... this way. Look how bright it is!" His ears and tail had started twitching excitedly right about then.

Then the amulet went dark.

Lukas twisted to look at Soren. "I thought you said it couldn't be broken!" he exclaimed, an accusatory tone sneaking its way into his voice.

Jace paused, a hand to his chin, before snapping his fingers and making them all look at him. "Ah, yeah- didn't Ellegaard say it didn't work in the Nether or the End?"

"... ah! Did he duck into one of those places, then?" Jesse asked, after a momentary hum of agreement.

"Most likely," Lizzie agreed, rubbing her head thoughtfully.

Lukas's brow creased onscreen, and he tried shaking it. Nothing happened, though.

Onscreen, Jesse's eyes narrowed at the amulet curiously, before a loud rumble suddenly echoed throughout the room, and they all looked up at the holes in the ceiling again, a bit startled.

"Sounds like the grinder's backed up," Olivia said, sounding puzzled as she stared at the ceiling.

"With loot?" Axel asked hopefully.

Jesse stared at the ceiling for a moment, before her eyes widened as something seemed to register in her mind. "Oh no."

Another waterfall poured from the ceiling, washing not loot, but instead several vicious monsters down there.

"Oh, crap!" Dan almost yelled in Stampy's ear, making the slightly shorter boy flinch away violently, "now that there's nothing killing the monsters-!"

"Go go go go go!" Jesse screamed onscreen, everyone rushing towards the archway- except for Lukas. The ocelot hybrid was paralyzed in fear again, frozen in place, eyes wide. Onscreen, Jesse grabbed his arm, but suddenly there was a yelp as another waterfall of water exploded into being right above them and slammed them to the floor, more waterfalls knocking the hybrids back onto the floor.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no," Olivia chanted, having now buried her face back in Axel's shoulder. Ellegaard was bouncing on her seat in agitation.

Jesse slowly swallowed and automatically leaned into Lukas. The blonde glanced at her before patting her on the back again, eyes fixed on the screen.

Onscreen, Jesse slowly gulped, a look of horror on her face, none of them even close to the archway yet.

"Well... crap," Cassie stated the obvious slowly.


A/N: Wow, a lot of you got Hybrid withdrawal xD And most authors get 'I hope you're okay' or 'are you alive' after a whole month of inactivity. I get it after one day xD

RQTC: Who is going to watch the Lego Batman movie? (raises hand)

By the way, if there's a / in the review, it means that I'm switching subjects.

AquaK13: Lol! / And yes :3

LittleAngelbun: Correct!

Raven: Correct, and thank you!

Emily The Avenger: I read it, I read it xD / and ahhh, that sucks. / 0-0 really?

Darkbeast Dend: I'm not sure she's doing it on purpose xD / And, uh, the second one is correct. / And okay, this is the last time I'm going to warn you about this; ONE or TWO reviews per chapter. You've posted more than that amount on a single chapter again. If you do this again, I'm going to have to start deleting the excess reviews. I really don't want to have to go that far; but I've asked you three times at this point. If I have to ask again... well... (shrugs uncomfortably)

MissyMattingly: Correct!

Slayer88: Correct!

EthanDaCabbage: Why do you think I have those RQTCs where I ask 'very subtly' if you hate it if people look over your shoulders? xD but, I might start bringing my laptop to school, so that's something... / Live with them. (grins) Imagine the shenanigans we could all get up to! / 0-0 yes, I'm.. perfectly fine, lol xD

DynamiteHunter6: (blinks) / OMG really!? xD

Kaos Ruin: Oh, I know right? xD / and yes, correct.

LunarStarsMoon: Thank you!

rebekahtpe: Correct! / And you just realized that? xD / And as for the RQLC, small. I can cuddle more of them! x3

RapidSammi: Oh, god, you just had to ask that xD Uhm, Episode 8... I don't exactly know how to explain why I like it though... xD

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: Uhh, nope... / and no, of course I'm not a hundred, it's just a riddle xD

sailor. mikuchan: (buzzer sound) Nope.

mEEplePeoPLe: One really long fanfic... (points at Hybrid and this story) / 0-0 really?

Guest: Wrong.

SofiaTheWriter88: (high-fives you)

LivTheWarrior: I WILL include something from Recode Reality; but they're not watching past the end of Hybrid.

Rabbits rule: "a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process." Basically, all other stories are on hold.

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