"So, then," Jesse broke up the awkward silence after about a minute, "what IS Super TNT then, exactly?"
"Well, it's just another one of my... marvelous Impossible Objects."
Jesse gave Soren a deadpan look, before pointing at the TNT while still staring at Soren. "If it's impossible, how'd you make it in the first place?"
Axel scratched his head a bit, making Jesse glance at him. "I feel like you're a lot more sarcastic nowadays, Jesse."
"Yeah, you really don't look like you have it in ya," Magnus said, glancing from the screen to Real-Jesse. She blinked at him innocently.
She shrugged onscreen. "I used to not be. Then I learned from the master," and she glanced at Petra.
Real-Petra smiled sheepishly as everyone started giggling at that. Onscreen-Petra looked rather amused by this as well.
"Remember, Jesse," Soren said, lips twitching as if he were trying not to laugh at the banter (which was probably the case), "I killed the Ender Dragon. I do impossible things everyday."
Ivor's faint smile fell, and he shot a glare at the ginger. The Order carefully avoided his gaze.
Jesse held out a handful of the gunpowder she'd stuffed into her pocket and arched her eyebrow. "So, do we just combine it with the gunpowder, then?" she asked, waving the handful around a bit.
"Well, the crafting recipe is quite simple, really. Super TNT in the middle, and gunpowder all around," Soren gestured slightly at the TNT, being very careful not to wave the arm holding the Super TNT too much.
Jesse smiled and nodded as she reached out for the TNT. "Got it."
Soren jumped back out of reach, a panicked look crossing his face. "No! No no no! The ingredients are highly unstable. Even putting them in close proximity with each other is a risk."
"Oh," Otto scratched his head. "That's..." He paused, as if trying to figure out the right word for what he was trying to say, mentally grasping for the appropriate word. "... inconvenient, isn't it?"
Soren nodded. "Quite."
"Oh, okay..." Jesse stepped back and put the gunpowder back in her pocket again, her own faintly panicked expression crossing her face as she put her arms up in surrender. "Well, we- we may not have the Formidi-Bomb yet, but at least we have the ingredients to build one. Progress!"
"I feel like doing jazz hands when we say that. Like, 'progress'!" And Lukas did said jazz hands.
The blonde huffed as everyone started giggling at that, a pink tint coming over his cheeks.
Onscreen, Jesse rolled her eyes with a giggle at that, and Petra gave her head an admonishing shake. "Lukas, you are a dork," she declared playfully, although she still sounded faintly sick. Everyone grinned at that, both the hybrids and the audience.
Lukas acted affronted, putting his hands on his hips. "Hey!" he joked.
Before anything more could be said, Jesse gasped, smile dropping right off her face, and slapped her hands over her eyes. Everyone whirled around to see what she was looking at, before gasping themselves and clapping their own hands over their eyes. The screen changed to show that an Enderman had abruptly appeared in the other room, magenta sparks still floating down to the floor. Immediately most of the audience turned away with a yelp, at least attempting to cover their eyes.
Soren tsked softly. "Oh. Oh dear. I was afraid of this. With the End underwater, the Endermen will try to escape."
"Could've mentioned that before!" Lukas hissed, his hands still covering his eyes and his now-very-bushy tail flicking around and hitting everything in a three-foot radius.
"Yeah, that- that would've been nice," Stacy said, hands over her eyes.
"Well, what are we supposed do?" Jesse squeaked. "I don't think we're going to be able to outrun them or anything; they can TELEPORT for Notch's sake!"
Soren's eyebrow furrowed at that for a moment, and he remained still before his eyes practically lit up. "Of course... of course!" He pointed at the minecarts that Axel had brought out only a few minutes before, rather dramatically. "To the minecarts, everybody!"
The whole group immediately bolted for the minecarts, more and more and more Endermen teleporting into the room after them. Despite this fact, Soren had a grin on his face, for some reason.
"Why's he grinning?" Dan wondered.
"I've been waiting ages to say that..."
"Oh."
Soren glanced back at Jesse and Lukas, who happened to be the nearest people to him. "To people, I mean."
Onscreen, Lukas nearly tripped and landed flat on his face at that. Real-Lukas had 'coughed' for a few minutes, smothering his mouth. When he removed his hands, though, he was still grinning. Jesse was having a little silent giggling fit, having buried her face in Lukas's shoulder. Jace was biting his knuckles in an attempt to keep himself from laughing.
It must be said that it really wasn't working.
Everyone quickly leaped into the minecarts. Reuben jumped in first, then Jesse, then Olivia teleported into the cart, then Lukas leaped in, Axel nearly fell into the cart headfirst by accident, Petra glided into hers with this perfectly exhausted look on her face, and Soren hopped into the last one. The force of the impact of landing in the minecarts started to move the minecarts along the track, as more and more Endermen appeared in the room behind them.
Reuben poked his head over the rim of the minecart curiously as the wheels inched forward at the redstone-activated, glowing tracks. The moment the wheels touched the red tracks, he zoomed forward down the tunnel.
"Wow!" Maya exclaimed.
Jesse looked at the tracks herself, before all six of her hands tightened on the minecart rim. A moment later, her own cart practically rocket-launched forward, throwing the girl back a bit in the cart. "Whoa!" she exclaimed, before the minecart hooked up with Reuben's and the two of them were racing down the tracks.
Next came Olivia, then Lukas, then Axel, and then Petra. Soren's minecart had just joined up with the whole train when an Enderman's screech rang out in the air, and not even a full second later, the door slammed shut behind them. The whole tunnel fell silent except for the sound of the minecarts racing along down the tracks.
"That- that was close," Petra panted out, hands tight on the cart rim.
"Now, all we gotta do is find a way to get the bomb into the Witherstorm," Lukas said after a moment, panting a bit, "shouldn't be- too hard, right?"
"Don't you dare jinx it," Petra warned him.
"What are you telling me that for?! Onscreen me can't hear you!" Lukas complained, spreading his arms out expansively.
Olivia nodded in agreement onscreen. "It's not a picky eater. We could just stick it in the tractor beam and it'll eat it itself. And then... boom! Bye bye, Witherstorm."
The whole group was starting to nod at this comment when Axel suddenly screamed, "INCOMING!"
Jesse whipped around to see the opening of the tunnel. The sun was setting and-
"Ah," Stacy said, deceptively calmly. "That might be a problem."
There was a creeper on the tracks.
Reuben squealed and covered his eyes with his hooves, right before the carts slammed into the creeper and catapulted their riders into the air, scattering all over the ground. Jesse let out a yell as she flew into the air, doing a slow, almost lazy flip in the air, before slamming onto her back, bouncing, and coming to a stop a few feet away, panting heavily. A moment passed before she slowly sat up, grimacing. "... ow..."
The audience winced sympathetically at that.
A spider scurried past her. Then a creeper. Then a zombie and another creeper. Jesse blinked at this as she watched them running in the other direction.
"Are the googlies... running away?" Stampy asked, blinking in bewilderment.
"There you are!"
Jesse's eyes lit up, and she whirled around to see the redstone engineer holding a sword, the Rogue also standing next to her with his own stone sword. Magnus grinned at her. "So glad you could make it!"
Real-Ellegaard breathed a sigh of relief at seeing them alive.
Jesse ran over to them as Axel literally lifted Magnus off the ground in a hug and Olivia bleeping over and throwing her arms around Ellegaard in a fit of excitement. Grins and laughs were exchanged, and Jesse let out a relieved laugh. "I'm so glad you're okay! I thought Ivor was coming to get you or something!" she called to them as she drew level with him.
Ellegaard blinked at her. "Ivor? We haven't even see him!"
"I guess that's a bit confusing for them," Cassie mused. "They didn't even know Ivor was there."
Another monster came rushing past Jesse, making the whole group flinch back automatically, before Soren spoke, making everyone automatically turn to look at him.
"You don't have to worry about the monsters. They're running away." Soren raised his arm slowly and pointed, face ashen with fear. "Worry about what they're running away from."
Jesse turned to see, before nodding and saying, "Ah" very quietly.
Because there, in all of its three-headed glory, was the Witherstorm.
A/N: Short(er) chapter. I trieeed xD
RQTC: Who's checked out my story Tower of Minecraft? Be honest (Lenny face)
LunarStarsMoon: I hardly ever change anything xD so those typos are gonna be in there forever and ever xD xD xD
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MissyMattingly: x3
AquaK13: (cracks up)
LittleAngelbun: x3
sailor. mikuchan: The only thing that I can think of that being a reference to is Silence of the Lambs, but I haven't watched that... so...
KaosRuin: Glad to hear it xD
SofiaTheWriter88: (hums thoughtfully)
DynamiteHunter6: (laughs)
EthanDaCabbage: Nice, dude! Also, glad to hear the chappie made ya laugh xD
Emily The Avenger: (blows one of those noisemaker thingies)
RapidSammi: (laughs) Okay, that's a pretty good reason.
Darkbeast Dend: :3
Rabbits rule: (evil grin) xD I like wolves. xD Sorry, random, I know. / By the way, quick things about rabbits, when you're in high school and you're planning a senior prank... ... do not release 200 rabbits into the school.
rebekahtpe: I'm planning on writing a story of each journal entry once this is done xD As a bit of an 'extra' story xD Uh, flint and steel. I can just set them on fire, like you said, and then run away while they're stopping, dropping, and rolling xD
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