"Ivor?" Jesse straightened up, eyes widening in surprise. This released more tears down her cheeks, but she paid that no heed- she was staring at the man sitting behind her in the snow. "What are you doing here?"

Ivor paused, looking at Jesse for a moment with this odd expression on his face, before saying, tentatively, "I... I have something I need to tell you. I need to tell everyone."

Jesse just stared at him for a minute uncertainly, concern in her eyes from where she was still hugging her knees. The corners of Ivor's mouth twitched, before he said, in a voice that had grown extremely quiet, "Please."

The spider hybrid hesitated for another moment, before smiling a bit in a quivery way and standing up, brushing the snow off of the armor bottoms. "Sure. C'mon, we're all back this way."

Ivor stood up, still looking at her oddly, before suddenly reaching forward and pulling the spider hybrid into a hug. Probably the first hug he'd given her in years.

Jesse's eyes widened, freezing in place from where her face was now pressed into his shoulder, before she shut her eyes and let herself lean her head into his shoulder. Her lower arms all slowly moved into place to hug him tightly, the two of them now standing intertwined in a hug.

The audience all glanced at Jesse, but she was staring at the screen with this faint, happy smile. Ivor watched her for a minute as well, before a soft smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and he slowly turned back to the screen. Harper was the only one to notice this.

Finally, Jesse let go of him, and Ivor stepped back, giving Jesse a weak smile. She returned it, before turning around silently and heading back, Ivor following a few steps behind.

The whole group looked up as she re-entered the cave, concern and worry in their eyes. The concern and worry suddenly turned to rage upon spotting who was behind her.

Well, except for Gabriel. He just kind of blinked.

"Ivor?!" Soren growled, launching to his feet as Reuben galloped over to where Jesse was standing, rubbing his head against her leg. Jesse grinned and leaned down, patting the pig on the head.

"You need to hear me out! What you all need to understand is that you're in very grave danger!" Ivor protested, flailing his hands in a 'surrendering/pinwheel' motion.

Hadrian gave Ivor an incredulous look. "You don't think they know that?!" he exclaimed, breaking out of his announcer's voice for once.

Onscreen, Petra seemed to have the same sentiment, because she let out a bark of angry, sarcastic laughter. "Obviously!"

"No, no, I mean- this group, specifically! The Witherstorm isn't acting randomly, it's following Gabriel!"

Gabriel blinked from where he was sitting on the ground. "It's doing what now?" he asked, sounding puzzled.

"You see, I... might have programmed it to follow his amulet."

"Oh god!" Dan exclaimed. "No wonder that thing's been find you lot so fast; it's been following you!"

"It tried to grab Gabriel back at the temple because he had the amulet," Lukas muttered, turning paler and paler every moment, "then it tried to follow Jesse through the portal because she had it, then it followed them to Boom Town, and then to Soren's fortress... how didn't we notice- how didn't we-?"

Gabriel winced. "I'm sorry, Jesse. I shouldn't have given you the amulet."

"We never would've found you or the rest of the Order if you hadn't. Besides, how were you supposed to know that the Witherstorm was programmed to follow it?" Jesse said quickly and reassuringly, putting her hands up.

Onscreen, the cave was utterly silent. Everyone was staring at Ivor, before they all slowly turned to stare at Jesse, whose eyes were as wide as dinner plates.

Ivor slowly followed their gaze as Jesse reached into her back pocket with one of her lower arms and slowly tugged out the amulet. She held it out to him a moment later, looking completely speechless. Every gem in the amulet was glowing with a beautifully bright aura. The Order of the Stone was reunited, for the first time in years.

Ivor's mouth dropped open in shock, and he looked up from the amulet at Jesse. "I... I didn't know..."

"ARGH, Ivor, you- you fool!" Soren practically snarled, throwing his hands into the air. "You've created a monster that's following Jesse! And it's only getting stronger!"

Ivor's head snapped around to face Soren, dark blue eyes blazing with anger. "You don't think I don't know that?!" he snapped, "Nothing can stop those things! Nothing even slows them down!"

Lukas glared at Ivor, tail flicking to and fro with agitation. "Way to point out the obvious."

Jesse's brow was furrowing even as Lukas said this. "Well... nothing except for Endermen," she said, thoughtfully.

Ivor turned to stare at her, looking totally bemused. "Endermen?"

"Endermen...?" Soren echoed. His eyes widened a second later. "Of course! Endermen! They could tear the Witherstorm apart! You saw them, the tractor beams travelled over them, and they went wild!"

Everyone's eyes widened, before Jesse's excited expression fell. "Oh... we're forgetting about something... Soren, when we blew the Witherstorm up, we didn't destroy the Command Block. It was... fine. Not even a dent or scratch anywhere on it. It nearly got me," and this made Jesse shudder.

Lukas swallowed a bit and tightened his arm around Jesse.

"So even if the Endermen ripped the Witherstorm into tiny pieces-" Jesse began, but Soren had gotten the gist.

"They wouldn't be able to destroy the Command Block." He sighed. "And nothing can destroy that thing. Not even the Formidi-Bomb. I see your point."

Ivor tilted his head thoughtfully, eyes narrowing, before saying, tentatively, "Actually, I... may have a solution to that."

"You do?" Harper looked at him in surprise. Joined by most of the other members of the audience.

"Yes, I do, it's..." Ivor paused, before gesturing at the screen. "I'm sure I'm about to explain it."

Onscreen, everyone's heads whipped around to stare at him, as he continued, "When I first took possession of the Command Block-"

"You mean stole it."

"Yes, well-" Ivor waved Soren off absentmindedly, "I created a failsafe. A backup plan of sorts, just in case."

"So why didn't you tell us that?!" Petra snapped. "Or used it yourself?!"

Ivor sighed, sounding extremely impatient now. "I wasn't expecting things to go so awry. Besides, I had the potion, which would have worked if you lot hadn't stolen it."

"Technically, Axel was the one who stole it," Stacy pointed out. "None of the others really had anything to do with it."

Jesse raised her eyebrow, before spreading her arms expansively. "Yes, well, I'd be rather inclined to say 'just in case' would be right now."

"I agree with Jesse," Lizzie called out, raising her hand like a schoolgirl. Dan grinned at her in amusement.

"I'm inclined to agree," Ivor agreed with the black-haired girl.

"So, what is this failsafe?" Soren asked, crossing his arms and scowling at his former friend.

Ivor began to pace the floor, a thoughtful look entering his dark blue eyes. Jesse arched her eyebrow at him. "I always liked it when you got that look in your eyes. Although that did mean sometimes I had to hide behind you while you mixed potion ingredients together."

This prompted several laughs from the audience.

Onscreen, Ivor grinned a bit, but briefly. You could see he was definitely in thought now. "An enchanting book. One that contains the power of the Command Block itself," he spoke after a few more seconds of thought.

Everyone in the cave, and in the living room, exchanged shocked glances as Ivor finished, "Use it to enchant a weapon, and you'd be able to smash the Command Block into pieces. Forever."

"That sounds perfect!" Axel exclaimed. "Let's go get that super weapon!"

Ivor winced at this. "Just... one problem." This made everyone look back at Ivor, who was rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. "It's at my secret lab... which is sort of... far away."

A loud groan rose through everyone in the cave.

"Of course it's far away," Em groused. "Why are we even surprised at this point?"

"How far away would 'far away' be?" Ellegaard asked, slowly, her hand still clamped tightly over her side.

Ivor let out a nervous laugh as he stepped back. "Ah... well... let's just say it's the farthest place a person can travel before being utterly-"

"Well, before we worry about it, we all need to get some rest," Jesse interrupted. "Some of us haven't slept for days. We need to take a quick break before we all pass out or something."

There was a short silence, before Ellegaard managed to break the silence by letting out an incoherent groan and slumping sideways, face turning pale.

"Ellie!" Magnus exclaimed, grabbing Ellegaard's shoulders and trying to keep her upright, but Ellegaard's eyelids had fluttered shut, and her breathing was getting more and more shallow.

Ivor frowned as he approached, tentatively. Nobody tried to keep him from getting closer. "What happened?" he asked, a note of rising concern making his voice rise an octave. "What's wrong with her?"

Olivia shook her head, kneeling down and trying to keep Ellegaard from simply collapsing. "The Witherstorm hit her and- we don't know. She's been bleeding nonstop for the past hour or so, though."

Ivor knelt down, eyes narrowing as he stared at Ellegaard, before reaching into his back pocket and starting to pull out some bottles, muttering as he did so. "No... no... wrong type... got it." He stared at the bottle with a faintly green liquid in it, an expression of misgiving coming over his face, before he turned to look at Jesse. "Hey, Jesse. Could you come here for a moment?"

Ellegaard stared at the screen, before looking at Ivor. "Are you trying to heal me?"

Ivor just stared at the screen, lips tightening into a thin line.

Jesse blinked before kneeling on the ground next to Ellegaard, whose breathing was getting more shallow and pained with each inhale. "Yeah? What is it?" she asked, staring at Ellegaard worriedly.

Ivor stared at the bottle grimly, before looking up at Jesse, resolve hardening. "I might have a way to heal the worst of Ellegaard's injuries."

That got her attention. Jesse was now staring at Ivor intently, as were several people in the cave. "How?"

"Yes, how?" Soren asked. Ellegaard hushed him, staring at the screen intently.

"But..." Ivor paused, staring at the bottle again, before looking back at Jesse. "The thing is, it's incredibly risky. There's a high chance that I'll get the dosage wrong and kill her by accident. I'm not going to try it unless you all think it's worth a try."

There was an ugly silence at that as everyone took that fact in. Ellegaard stared at the screen, before letting out a little sigh and shaking her head at the male, a faint smile coming over her face. "Thank you, Ivor."

"What for? I haven't done anything yet," Ivor said, staring at Ellegaard bemusedly.

"No, you haven't. But you're willing to try. So... thank you," Ellegaard repeated, tightening her grip on Magnus's hand.

Ivor stared at Ellegaard for another moment, before shaking his head slightly and turning back to the screen.

Onscreen, Jesse was turning back from everyone else, before giving Ivor a slow nod. "I think we should risk it."

Ivor watched Jesse evenly, before uncorking the bottle. "Alright, if we're going to try. I have an extremely weak healing potion here. It would be enough to fix maybe a sprained ankle at most, so that is why we're going to try strengthening it. But... we're going to have to go with a very risky option, since I don't have any of my potion supplies with me."

Jesse didn't look like she was enjoying the way this conversation was going.

Ivor paused another moment, before saying, "I'm going to tell you what you need to do, but I need you to keep an open mind to the idea..."

"Just tell them already!" Mevia snapped impatiently.

Ivor merely grunted at her. "I'm not exactly stoked about the idea right now."

Onscreen, Jesse put her hands up in surrender. "I promise I will react perfectly neutrally to whatever you're about to say."

"Okay..." Ivor still looked extremely unsure, before stating bluntly, "I need you to bite Ellegaard."

There was a very long, very pregnant pause.

"Can I react now?"

Clutch snorted at that.

"Yes."

"Why the heck am I going to bite Ellegaard!? Wouldn't I just poison her?!" Jesse exclaimed, flinging her arms into the air and nearly smacking Magnus in the face by accident.

"Well, no, not exactly... see, spider venom actually reacts with healing potions in an interesting way. It's not used very often, since it's a risky option that you'll kill the person you're attempting to heal, but like I said, I don't have any of my supplies with me." Ivor opened his mouth to keep expanding on it, but Jesse put a hand up rapidly, staring at him blankly.

"Ivor, please give it to me in the most succinct way possible, or we'll be here until next Sunday."

Ivor arched his eyebrow slightly, a smirk playing on his mouth, as the rest of the Order stifled their laughter.

Onscreen, the man smirked a bit himself. "Alright. Spider venom has a strange quality that allows it to boost a potion's strength; as well as making Potions of Poison. When a healing potion reaches a person's stomach, the stomach acids allow the potions to reach the bloodstream directly. So if you were to bite Ellegaard, and get the dosage correct..."

Jesse finished the thought, her eyes widening. "It would be enough to boost the healing potion's strength."

Ivor nodded, a faint smile coming over his face. "Yes. Admittedly, since this is a weak potion, it won't be able to heal every injury even with the correct venom boost, but it will stop any internal bleeding and fix up any severe external wounds."

"Have you actually tried that before?" Harper asked him.

Ivor shrugged in response. "No, not exactly, but I've studied the theory extensively. It... should work." He paused. "If Jesse can dispense the exact amount of venom needed."

Jesse rolled her eyes. "So, no pressure then."

Lukas snorted a bit at that.

"But what is the correct dosage?" Jesse asked, frowning at Ivor as she realized the gaping flaw in the plan. "I sure as hell don't know it. Please tell me you do."

"As a matter of fact, yes. Adult spiders- you count as one now, since adult spiders reach full maturity after only about... er... 4 years...?"

"Ivor?" Jesse was raising her eyebrow at him now. "Could you speed up the explanation a bit? I'd rather not have Ellegaard die on us while you explain the logistics of the whole thing."

Ivor rolled his eyes, but he was smiling faintly. "Alright. Adult spiders dispense about an ounce of venom every second. I need about one ounce to mix properly with the potion. So you just need to bite her for a second and then pull back."

Jesse stared at Ellegaard, before nodding and taking Ellegaard's hand from her side, which was starting to go limp. "Okay..." She paused, before looking at Ivor. "Do I need to bite anywhere specific?"

"Spider venom is very fast-acting," Ivor said almost absentmindedly, moving towards Ellegaard and making Olivia and Magnus automatically back away as he paused right in front of the woman, "so no, anywhere is fine."

Jesse nodded, before lifting Ellegaard's hand to her mouth with a dubious look. After a few seconds of hesitation, she opened her mouth and bit down.

One second passed before Jesse jerked her head back, something acid-green dripping onto the cavern floor as she jerked back and scrambled away from Ellegaard. At the same moment, Ivor quickly dumped the potion into Ellegaard's mouth. There was a long pause, before Ellegaard suddenly let out a shuddering gasp and shot upright, conking her forehead against Ivor's and making the man fall over backwards with a yelp.

Ivor huffed a bit while the audience attempted to stifle their laughter at this.

"I- Ivor?" Ellegaard was gaping at the man, looking down at herself. "I'm... alive?" Her eyes widened. "Ah, sh-!"

Her swear word was cut off as she winced. "Looks like my leg's not healed..."

"No, but the worst of the damage up here should be... fine. For the most part," Ivor amended the statement after a second or so, "The wound on your side might still be there, but it's much less severe."

Ellegaard paused, before she shook her head a bit, a faint smile coming over her lips. "I... thank you, Ivor. I know we're not exactly on the best of terms, so... thanks."

Ivor stared at Ellegaard, a bemused look on his face. He abruptly stood up a moment later with a loud sigh. "Damn! I hate social situations. I never know what to do."

Magnus burst out laughing at that, partially from relief but partially because he found this amusing, and almost fell off the couch, Ellegaard almost toppling off with him. Several other members of the audience were also starting to titter loudly.

Ivor was about to move away when Gabriel came up to him, holding out his hand with a blank, but warm smile on his face. "Hello. My name is Gabriel."

"Well, at least he's not asking who Gabriel is anymore," Soren said, in an attempt to be optimistic. It didn't really work.

Ivor stared at him for a moment, before looking back at Jesse with an odd expression on his face. "Somebody pinch me."

Jesse did exactly that, making Ivor yelp and rub his upper forearm while scowling at the girl, but there was a small smile twitching on his lips.

This set Magnus off again.

Onscreen, the rest of the Order, excluding Gabriel, were barely able to stifle a round of giggles. Gabriel was smiling vaguely at this, but the smile was wiped off his face as he spotted Lukas looking at Petra with his back to the warrior, the ocelot face clearly visible. "That jacket... I recognize it!"

"Is his memory coming back?" Sparklez asked, hopefully.

Lukas blinked and twisted to look at Gabriel. Jesse looked at Lukas, this bewildered expression on her face, before looking back at Gabriel. "Lukas always wears that jacket."

"No, no!" Gabriel shook his head insistently. "There- there were other people wearing that jacket when I was thrown from the monster!"

Gasps erupted throughout the living room and the cave alike, and Lukas's eyes widened onscreen. Jesse chanced a glance at each of the members of the Ocelots, all of them staring at the screen hopefully.

Gabriel reached up and squeezed his eyes shut. "Ugh... it- it hurts to just-!"

"Hey, hey, hey," Magnus's eyes were wide as he pulled Gabriel over into a corner, "it's- it's okay."

Ellegaard smirked from where she was still sitting on the floor. "You looooove us."

This set several members of the audience off, Magnus blushing and huffing but not actually saying anything.

"Ellie, I will slap you."

"You didn't deny it," Soren pointed out, a faint smile twitching on his lips.

Magnus paused, still holding Gabriel by the arm, before turning back and making a face at them.

The laughter in the room reached hysterical-level.

He then walked into the corner. Jesse turned to Lukas, eyes filled with excitement. Lukas had the same expression as he blurted, tail flicking around excitedly, "Jesse... d-do you think what Gabriel said is true? I mean... if they were just trapped then-!"

"They could still be out there!" Jesse exclaimed, a grin spreading across her face.

Lukas nodded almost distractedly. "I know! That means... I gotta go after them!"

Every member of the Ocelots' head snapped to look at the blonde.

A more surprised expression posed itself on Jesse's face. She stared at him for a moment, before opening her mouth to say something, unsurely.

She never finished it as suddenly Petra groaned. Axel quickly reached out and shifted Petra so that she sat on the floor, hugging her knees to her chest with a moan. Jesse bit her lip and glanced at Lukas, who was already turning away and heading for the entrance, before trotting over to Petra.


A/N: Oh my Notch this chapter is so long. xD Hence... why it took me three days to do it.

Yayyyy Ivor healed Ellegaard. He's not that bad of a bad guy after all.

And holy crap 700 reviews 0-0 Guys this might end up having more reviews than the original Hybrid

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