Jesse let out a yell as she, Petra, and Lukas were all thrown from the End portal, all landing in a rather large heap on the floor.
The audience all winced sympathetically.
Lukas's hair was dripping into his eyes again, but he quickly climbed off of the pile and shook all the water off, making Axel flail in protest as water showered all over him. Jesse quickly rolled off of Petra and started to work on swatting the thin layer of ice that was forming on Petra off. Olivia helped as well, although she kept making spastic flinching motions and accidentally hitting Petra harder than she meant to, but Petra just stayed silent about it.
Once all the ice was off, Jesse let out the most relieved sigh they'd ever heard in their lives. "We made it," she gasped in relief.
"Making it is relevant," Soren replied, spitting out a mouthful of water onto the floor.
Jesse turned to see what he was looking at, and then her eyes widened. "Ahhh, crap. Forgot about that."
The screen zoomed out to show that the room was practically crawling with monsters. And all of said monsters were slowly approaching the group. Some more tentatively than the others, like the creepers and spiders. But they were all approaching.
"Oh. Yeah. I completely forgot about that," Sparklez said slowly, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.
Jesse whipped out her sword and slashed at the nearest zombie, killing it in three well-placed hits. She then threw herself backwards and did a crab-walk to avoid a few arrows, before whipping back upright and slamming her sword full-force into another zombie. "Not that this isn't fun or anything," she called out to Soren, ducking behind a wall of the archway as more arrows came spitting through, "but can we just grab that Formidi-Bomb and get out of here?!"
"One... small problem," Soren remarked, drawing his own sword and fending off a zombie. "Tiny really." He slammed the butt of the sword into its face, before driving the sword through its body and making it puff into smoke. He looked up at the black-haired spider hybrid. "Miniscule."
"Get on with it, Soren!" Jesse exclaimed, flipping the sword in a smooth motion and driving it through another zombie's body.
"... I haven't actually built it yet."
Both onscreen and real Jesse and Lukas looked at each other incredulously.
"That's a small problem?!" Jesse shouted to the builder.
"How is that a tiny problem?!" Lukas complained, "that's a huge problem!"
Soren let out a nervous chuckle, expression becoming more thoughtful, before his eyes lit up.
Jesse arched her eyebrow at him. "I recognize that spark in your eye; but I don't remember if it's the 'I have a great idea' spark or the 'I have an idea but you should probably run away before I blow you all to smithereens by accident' spark."
This prompted several laughs from the audience. Soren ducked his head sheepishly when the Order sent him significant looks.
"You two are people who appreciate cool stuff that's cool for no reason, right?" Soren asked the two of them, choosing to ignore Jesse's comment. Jesse and Lukas shared another panicked look, before Lukas stooped to grab a bow and arrow from the floor and shot a zombie that was approaching Petra, whose hands were shaking so hard that she was about to drop her sword. Jesse turned back to look at Soren.
"Sure."
Soren jerked his head at the inside of the archway. "Go ahead and throw that lever behind you."
Jesse peeked over her shoulder to see that, yes, there was a lever on the wall. Jesse shrugged and flicked her wrist, sending a string sailing at the lever. Smacking the lever, the force from which she'd just 'thrown' it was enough to flip it.
"Hold onto your socks," Soren called as the screen switched to show the monster infested room. Pumpkins fell from the ceiling and landed atop Ts of iron blocks, "'cause they're about to get blown off!"
The iron blocks of each individual T shivered into an iron golem, leaving six iron golems in the place of the Ts, as well as small shards of iron and dust all over the floor. "Go to work, boys!"
Axel blinked onscreen. "Holey cow."
One of the golems raised its arms and literally smacked a zombie out of the room. Another one kicked a skeleton into the wall, where it exploded into smoke and bones, and a third took ahold of a zombie by the leg and brought it down on the floor, making it explode into smoke, dust, and rotten flesh. A spider jumped at another golem, which casually caught the spider and then tossed it over its shoulder as if it were nothing more than a wad of paper. The fifth one held a zombie as though it were some sort of bizarre, rotted baseball bat, and hit the spider with it, sending it flying at another group of monsters and bowling them all over.
"Awesome!" Gill cheered.
"Okay," Jesse's face developed a smirk, "THAT is cool."
"No kidding," Lukas agreed, nodding at the scene in front of them.
Hadrian hummed a bit but didn't actually say anything.
A skeleton backed away as two iron golems advanced on it, before both of them slammed a fist into it at the same time, sending the skull of the skeleton soar across the room and bounce across the floor once, twice, thrice, before clattering to a stop at Soren's feet and then puffing into dust. Soren winced a bit, before all of them ducked as a zombie went flying over their heads and straight into a wall. Another skeleton met the same fate as the zombie, bursting apart on impact and scattering bones all over the floor. Another zombie tried to escape, but one of the six golems knocked it facefirst to the floor.
"Eeeeyikes," Olivia winced a bit sympathetically.
Jesse suddenly blinked, as if a thought had occurred to her. "When... those golems are done with the monsters," she said, tentatively, "they're not going to attack... us, right?"
Soren looked at the five hybrids and pink pig, before shrugging. "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies."
"He doesn't know, does he?" Cassie asked flatly.
Soren became extremely interested in the episode.
"Um, that didn't actually..."
Soren's head snapped back around to the front. "Ask me no questions!"
"Speaking of asking questions," and everyone turned to look at the creeper hybrid. He turned to Petra calmly- and then grabbed her by the shoulders and started her shaking her so hard you could practically hear her brain rattling around in her hand. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THE END?!" His voice had risen into a near-hysterical screech. He looked as though he might actually be on the verge of a massive panic attack.
"Axel!" Stacy exclaimed. "You could seriously hurt her; her Wither Sickness-!"
"He doesn't know that. He just knows that something's wrong with her," Dan said, looking as though he was turning pale. "He might actually end up hurting her..."
Jace swallowed and tightened his arms around Petra.
Onscreen, Jesse and Lukas let out twin shrieks and bolted over to Axel, Jesse wrapping all six arms around the burly male and yanking him away from Petra automatically, while Lukas yanked Petra to safety, hair starting to stand on end. "Axel, Axel, don't!" Jesse yelped, "you don't shake a person like that!"
Axel stood there, gulping in breaths of air in an attempt to calm himself down, while Petra held her head in pain. "But what happened?!" he squeaked, both in fear and in anger.
"Petra's got Wither Sickness," Lukas said automatically, before his eyes widened as he realized he'd just told and putting a hand to his mouth.
Petra reached over and patted Lukas on the back. "They would've found out eventually. It was just a matter of time."
Onscreen, Petra's head snapped up and around to look at Lukas. "You know about it?" she asked, sounding surprised.
"I'm not sure onscreen-you sees it like that," Stampy said, quietly.
Lukas's hand was still covering his mouth, but his eyes flickered to Jesse automatically.
Petra's gaze darkened, and her head snapped around to glare at Jesse, betrayal playing in her eyes. "You told him?! I thought I told you not to tell anyone!" she snapped, before dissolving into a coughing fit. "I thought- you promised!" she managed through her coughing fit, glowering at Jesse.
The spider hybrid simply looked away. "Sorry," she said quietly.
"You promised- you said you weren't going to-" Petra dissolved into a more acute coughing fit, but the intensity of her glare didn't abate in the least.
"Sorry," Jesse repeated again, even more softly than before.
Petra's eyes seemed to flash even more angrily than before, and she'd taken three steps forward and-
SMACK.
Real-Jesse's eyes widened, and Petra turned to stare at the girl with a shocked look. Everyone was gaping at the sight of onscreen-Petra just having slapped Jesse full in the face, the spider hybrid's head having actually snapped to the side from the force of the impact. Lukas wrapped his arms around Petra in a tight hug from behind and pulled her away a few steps to keep her from slapping Jesse again. Jesse didn't say anything or even flinch, she just reached up almost absentmindedly to touch her reddening cheek, her red and green eyes nearly blank.
"Oh Notch," Petra said slowly, gaping at the screen. "I just slapped you. I just slapped you." She turned to look at Jesse, apology in her eyes. "I- I didn't-"
Jesse just put a hand up, staring at the screen blankly. "It's fine," she said quietly, although one finger was still absentmindedly fingering the bruise on her cheek.
"Petra, what the heck's gotten into you?!" Lukas exclaimed in shock, Petra still thrashing around and trying to get out so she could hit Jesse again.
"No, she's right," and everyone looked back at Jesse again, who was looking at the floor. "I shouldn't have told you, Lukas. I did technically promise not to tell, after all..."
"Petra's expression relaxed until an expression of embarrassment came over her face. "I'm... Sorry, Jesse. I don't really know what came over me just now," and she reached up and rubbed the back of her head sheepishly.
Jesse shrugged slightly. "That's okay." There was a moments' pause, before she finished, in a slightly lower volume, "It's my fault, anyway."
A/N: Oooh, Petra just slapped Jesse! Le gasp 0-0 But, next chapter'll be fun, too :3
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