"A city in the clouds..." Petra said wonderingly, "it almost sounds impossible!"

Lukas frowned a bit, squinting at the island below them, before speaking quietly. "I just don't know how we're going to reach it."

Petra's face fell as the whole group moved to face each other, standing in a rough semicircle. "Yeah... that's definitely going to be a problem..." she murmured, rubbing the back of her head.

Jesse nodded in agreement. "Yeah, my silk can extend a pretty long way, but, uh... not that long," she said, glancing at the island floating peacefully below them. (Unfortunately, it looked just a little too far away. Just a little.) "And since carrying people throws her off balance, Petra can't really carry people down."

"Not unless you want me to drop you."

"Yeah, unless that."

"Uh- yeah, with that big bottomless drop below you guys...? That would be bad," Stacy said, frowning at the screen.

"Understatement of the year," Em muttered under her breath.

Lukas huffed, sounding annoyed as he moved to stand next to Petra, turning the rough semicircle into a rough circle. "I can't believe this. We fall through a portal into another world... and then we can't even go anywhere!"

Real-Jesse got a case of the giggles.

Lukas patted her on the back with a shake of his head, hiding the smirk spreading over his features. He glanced at Petra, who'd glanced at him as well. Petra's eyes met Lukas's, and she jerked her head at the now-giggling Jace that was sitting next to her, his hand shoved up to his mouth in a failing attempt to stifle it.

Lukas shrugged back and gave an amused smile, Petra grinning back. Clearly the two of them shared more than a name and similar eyes.

Onscreen, Jesse turned to stare at the island in the distance, before turning back to the group with a thoughtful look. "Can't we just... build our way over?" she suggested mildly.

Isa, Reginald, and Milo gasped in unison.

"Oh, you do not want to do that- you really do not want to do that!" Milo gasped, shaking his head furiously and making everyone turn to look at him oddly.

Jace blinked at the blonde male sitting on the couch. "What? Why not? How are they supposed to get anywhere then?"

"Uh, how?" Lukas asked onscreen, ears flicking in agitation as he considered the spider hybrid next to him.

"Oh, please!" Ivor grumbled, "you've heard of a bridge, haven't you?"

Real-Petra scowled at Ivor. "You know, I'm pretty sure he meant what with."

Onscreen, Lukas continued, unfazed by Ivor's tone. You could've been excused for thinking that Ivor hadn't even spoken. "I don't know. Seems like a long way... Do we have enough blocks?"

Jesse turned around and peered over the edge, the screen switching to show exactly how large the underside of the island was. Lukas continued, "I mean, it's really, really far."

Ivor's voice spoke drily onscreen. "Yes, very astute, Lukas."

Petra's voice floated onscreen as Ivor's head appeared over the edge as well, peering down at the bottom of the island along with Jesse. "Ivor the Grump strikes again, I see."

Onscreen-Jesse made an odd sound as a huge grin spread over her face, quickly cutting it off. It sounded like a mix between a cough, a snort, and a sneeze. In the end, she ended up nearly gagging. Ivor shook his head with amusement and patted Jesse on the back.

Real-Jesse had buried her head in Reuben again, causing another round of giggles to go through the audience- both from the sight of her hiding her face behind Reuben, and from Petra's sardonic little comment.

"Elementary, my dear Lukas," Jesse said playfully, standing up and turning around to face the ocelot hybrid. Her lowest set of arms positioned themselves so that her hands were resting on her hips.

"Was that a Sherlock Holmes reference?" Mevia asked, sounding rather amused.

Real-Jesse gave the pale-blue-haired woman a grin. "'When you have eliminated all that is impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'," she quoted cheerfully.

Mevia returned the grin after a few moments, although it was more like a faint smirk. Otto and Harper blinked at her, before blinking at each other.

"The underside of this island is much, much bigger than it appears," Onscreen-Jesse finished her statement.

Onscreen, Lukas blinked, surprised. "Really?"

Ivor nodded and turned to Lukas as well. "Jesse's right. If we strip this whole island down to nothing... it might just be enough."

Lizzie frowned thoughtfully at the screen. "Where did the Blaze Rods go?" she wondered after a moment. "I mean, if the portal opens up right there, shouldn't they be stranded there too?"

Jesse thought about it for a moment, before giving a small shrug. "Maybe the portal opens up in different places in the same world? It could be that their first portal jump sent them to the big island rather than the small one that we're on right now."

Hadrian and Mevia exchanged a quick glance upon hearing that comment.

Without another word, the four of them moved to different sections of the island, before the screen sped up to show them digging through the dirt blocks rapidly. As they neared the bottom, the screen switched to show a close-up of Ivor glaring at Petra, who was right over his shoulder. "Stop pushing!"

"I'm not pushing! Lukas is pushing!" Petra immediately snapped back, shifting a bit to stay on land.

Lukas threw his hands up in surrender. "Hey, I'm just trying to keep away from the edge!"

"It's all edge!"

The screen zoomed out to show the four of them standing on a tiny, four-block island, barely visible among the floating clouds.

"Wow, uh," Petra winced a bit here, "no offense, Axel, but I'm kinda glad you didn't come along."

"Okay gang," Jesse said loudly, cutting off the argument as they looked at the distant city, which they were now level with, "I think that should do it. Let's make ourselves a bridge!"

"Excellent!" Ivor agreed with a grin.

The screen sped up again to show them building a bridge, although Ivor moved away from the group and started building something else, the bridge getting narrower and narrower, until Jesse was the only one building. Ivor caught up to the three hybrids right as she laid the last block down. "Okay, this is our stop. Evvverybody off."

Maya grinned playfully at Jesse. "You sound like a bus driver."

Onscreen, the Blaze hybrid turned around before her face went deadpan. "Ivor," she stated, sounding rather annoyed, "seriously?"

The screen switched to show that Ivor had built a skull-like shape out of dirt... with lava pouring out of its eyes.

Soren snorted, completely unfazed by the way Ivor proceeded to turn around and glare at the ginger-haired man.

"You must really love the Nether," Harper said, sounding highly amused as she surveyed the black-haired man's 'masterpiece'. Ivor was silent, making the Order glance at him in surprise. They had half-expected him to snap at her.

Reginald winced, however. "That's, err... that's not going to send a very good message," he said weakly, trailing off as he stared at the screen.

"What? What do you mean?" Stacy asked, turning to look at the man oddly.

Ivor shrugged sheepishly at Petra onscreen. "Heh, sorry. Can't help myself."

Onscreen, Jesse let out a loud snort at Ivor's answer and buried her face in Lukas's shoulder, although the ocelot hybrid was also giggling slightly and trying to stop.

"Y-you're building."

The four of them turned around to see a man gaping at them, eyes wide. He began to back away slowly. "I- you- I don't-" he eked out, staring at Jesse, then Lukas, then Jesse, then Lukas, both of whom had very obviously unhuman features, although he also glanced nervously at Petra and Ivor every few seconds.

"What's up with him? Is it the extra arms and the cat ears and stuff?" Em wondered, frowning at the screen. Milo winced a bit.

"Not quite, though I'm certain that has something to do with it. I'm, er... I'm sure you'll find out in a few seconds."

Onscreen, Jesse tilted her head slightly, a worried expression coming over her face. "Hey, yeah, we're... building. Is there... something wrong with that...?" she asked, frowning.

The man stuttered again. "I, uh... y-you don't know?"

He was looking extremely nervous. Jesse smiled weakly and put her hands up in a gesture of surrender, before her eyes widened as the screen zoomed into her eye again. It was another flashback... but what had it just gotten triggered by?

"Hey, get back here!"

A little Spider-Jesse was racing around the room, giggling madly as she chased the other person, who couldn't have been much older than her. Parts of him (or her) seemed rather out of focus, but the little kid, who was running around on all fours, giggled as well as he looked over his shoulder.

Jace's eyes widened. So did quite a few of the other audience members' eyes.

A little boy with mocha-brown hair and green eyes that were the exact size and shape of Jesse's and blurry... somethings on his head was racing around the room with Jesse. "Never!" he shouted, before letting out a loud yelp as the spider hybrid dropped to all eights and sprang forward, tackling him to the floor.

The young spider hybrid grinned mock-evilly and started madly tickling the boy, the little boy letting out a series of yelp-like laughs. "Okay! Okay! I give!" he giggled, throwing his hands up into a gesture of surrender. "Uncle! I call Uncle!"

"Good!" Little Jesse declared, crawling off of the other boy in her own little giggling fit.

The little boy frowned and put his hands on his hips, pouting at Jesse in a ridiculously exaggerated way. "You should be nicer to your brother," he huffed playfully.

"Nope," Little-Jesse responded, giggling when the other boy blew a raspberry at her. "No way, Jose."

"Don't you mean Jace?" the little boy asked, in a very obviously teasing tone.

Everyone's head snapped around to look at Real-Jace, whose mouth had fallen open as he gaped at the scene in front of him. Real-Jesse was goggling at the screen as well, eyes wide.

So there was a reason both of them had been brought here, after all.

Little-Jesse laughed, the laugh echoing as the older Spider-Jesse jerked a bit, eyes wide with shock as she lowered her arms a bit and stared at the ground for a moment, trying to steady her breathing. After a moment, it evened out, and she shook her head a bit and looked back up just as the man stammered out, "Y-yo-you were building. Unauthorized building is against the law!"

Everyone except for Reginald, Milo, Isa, and Benedict gaped at the screen.

"You're not allowed to build?!" Gill spluttered, trying to make sense of that.

Jesse and Jace were still frozen in shock on the floor, gaping at the screen silently, so Petra decided to speak up instead. "But why aren't you allowed to build if you have unlimited resources?"

Isa frowned, lips twisting to one side, before stating carefully, "Sky City may have unlimited resources, but obtaining them is rather... difficult."

Milo frowned a bit at Isa in the background, looking puzzled. This was evidently the first he'd heard of that.

"Difficult... how?" Olivia questioned.

Isa opened her mouth to respond, before being cut off by onscreen Petra, whose brow quirked in confusion. "Wait- there's a law saying people can't build?"

"Yes! It's forbidden!" the Sky Citizen exclaimed, looking around at the group.

Ivor frowned. "This... this makes no sense. No sense at all!"

"I-I-I- well... that's the law?"

This weak comment prompted a round of snorts from the audience.

Onscreen, Jesse winced and used her upper set of arms to rub the back of her head. "Oh, jeez, I'm sorry. We had no idea," she apologized almost instantly, giving the Sky Citizen an apologetic look. Not that it helped; he still looked as if Jesse had whipped out an axe, declared herself to be a murderer, and then gone chasing after him with said axe.

"It's a stupid law," Ivor snapped.

Isa and Reginald sent a glare at Ivor.

The narrator suddenly spoke at him. "Please shut him up, I'd really like to not offend these guys by insulting their laws."

Ivor didn't react, but Jesse glanced at the sky for a moment before deciding to ignore him as the Sky Citizen started backing away, looking over his shoulder anxiously. "Oh, jeez, first those other outsiders, now you..."

Lukas's eyes widened, before hardening angrily. "Other outsiders?" he asked, voice sharpening as he spoke, "where are they?"

The 'Blaze Rods' winced. He must've been pretty betrayed about getting kicked out.

The Sky Citizen continued backing away nervously. "They went to the inn. I'm sorry, but that's all I know." And with that he turned on his heel and started running off. Jesse approached, eyes wide. "Wait, wait wait-!"

"I'm super busy sorry!"

"Annnnd he's gone," Petra sighed, frowning a bit. Her gold eyes sparked a bit in irritation.

Lukas sighed as well. "Darn."

"That was... certainly something," Gabriel murmured. "I wonder how the other citizens will react to the bridge."

"I'm sure Jesse'll be able to talk her way out of it," Dan said, the blue-haired boy sending Jesse a grin.

Jesse smiled sheepishly in return. "Well, I mean, I hope."

Unnoticed by both of them, both Lukas and Stampy frowned a bit.

Onscreen, the four of them started walking through the doorway that the Sky Citizen had dashed through. "I wonder if everyone here is that..." Ivor trailed off as he got a good look at the city for the first time.

In front of them was a beautifully built building that was reminiscent of an egg, built of gold and quartz and decorated with purple wool. A little ways away was a small... garden... sort of thing, and around the huge building were smaller huts that were also somewhat reminiscent of eggs, and while not as impressive as the main building... it still looked clean and beautiful and as if it had never gotten dirty in its life. (If... cities had lives.) People roamed about the city, some standing in long lines near the huts and guards positioned everywhere.

"... nervous," Ivor breathed out the last word, eyes wide as he stared at the city.

"Wow," Lukas was gaping at the screen, "that's, um- that's a lot of precious materials."

"Wow," onscreen-Lukas unknowingly echoed real-Lukas's comment, basically summarizing what onscreen-Jesse appeared to be feeling, because the spider hybrid stepped forward and gazed at the buildings in silence for a moment, before declaring:

"That is absolutely beautiful. Who even built this place? It's gorgeous."

"Yes, it is. A pity no one else is allowed to do things like that," Milo muttered. Isa heard the comment and sent a scathing glare in his direction.

"And what exactly is that supposed to imply?"

Onscreen-Petra shook her head a bit, staring at the city around them with an admiring look. "You said it," she murmured in agreement.

"Yes, I should decorate my house like this," the narrator contributed. Jesse just smirked and rolled her eyes a bit in amusement, keeping up her facade of the narrator not existing.

"Whoever it was must've had the Eversource. It's clearly capable of miraculous things... and it's the only explanation of the copious amounts of rare materials they used to build it." Ivor had an overexcited gleam in his eye, a huge grin fixed on his face, "and when I get my hands on it-"

"Hey," Petra interrupted his excited statement, giving the over-excited potionologist a glare, "how about you take a massive chill pill, and we find it first?"

"Yes, that would be nice," Jesse put in, sounding rather amused about the whole thing.

"Yes yes yes yes yes," Ivor said, waving it off, "I'm just getting excited. Or, as I believe Jesse has put it once or twice, fanboying."

"Ha! You admit it!" Real-Jesse gloated, pointing at the screen with a huge grin on her face, giggling a bit despite herself. Lukas stifled a sound that may or may not have been an amused snort.

Onscreen-Jesse had to dive behind Lukas to stifle her own giggles, which in turn set the rest of the audience off a bit.


A/N: A bit short, but not bad :3

RQTC: Does anyone else initially find Isa a bit intimidating? (Like, she's great... but when you first meet her she's kinda scary xD)

LunarStarsMoons: (explodes) / Ah. / Hehehe xD It made me laugh, too. / Egg-cellent pun you just made there.

LittleAngelbun: Me too! / We're taking a different path than original Hybrid. xD

NinaNaranja: (laughs) / Cheese is great xD / I don't know, just look it up on YouTube or somethin' xD / (laughs) I'm glad to hear you like it so much!

Meow Shadow: I'm glad to hear it! And don't worry, the narrator's here to stay. Can't resist himself xD / Hehehe xD / 'Old dudes' xD / Yeah, Ivor with anime eyes is precious xD

AquaK13: Yep! Jesse will tell him to leave, and he will... and then he'll pop back in again when it's most inconvenient xD / Yeah, Nell's great xD / (bites lip and starts trembling with laughter) / I ain't tellin' xD / Cool :3

RapidSammi: Nope- if I do I'll get dragged into it, so I can't xD / Hehe xD

Emily The Avenger: I laughed while writing it xD

the indecisive bird: Alright x3 / Hehehe xD / It was honestly just 'cause the YouTuber I was watching went through the Build Club path, and I was at school, so I couldn't play through the game and record it without bothering everyone else. / Ahh.

Beli0304: I was actually tempted to put that as the chapter title, but then was like "No" xD / Hahaha xD / Cool! / Well, now you will see the Hybrid-edited path :3

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: Cool :3 / I don't read lemons. If anything starts getting lemon-y the author usually warns me in the description or something xD / xD

Darkbeast Dend: Why is she in trouble? / Okay.

Michael: Um, nice song...? Poem?

homeworkoverload: (snorts) / Yeah, hence why I don't think I could believably write it. The girls are... honestly not that girly.

Guest: (points at the chapter) / Thanks!

CrystalTearsofFaith: I'll find some way to include it in! (If I don't forget, lol xD) Thanks for showing me that!

FireBallin17: Kewl :3

SofiaTheWriter88: I'm glad you think I'm funny! I have a weird sense of humor, so I laugh at stupid things xD / Nope, I don't think so xD / There's gonna be a lot of that in this and in the rewrite. (A lot of random moments, they're not really important... well there's like one or two important moments, but not really.)

Temmie: Hoi Tem! Happy Easter to you as well!

Rabbits rule: (arches eyebrow) It's not personal. And I'm not changing the chapter just because Fluffy found it offensive. Sorry. / Oh, the narrator's here to stay. He's an omniscient talking voice that only Jesse can hear, although he is ever-present. He literally cannot leave.

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