Aiden's eyes widened as he straightened up, starting to stand. "I saw you fall!" he shouted at Jesse. "You went down!"

"Just because I fell down doesn't mean I can't get back up, Aiden," the spider hybrid told him warily, eyes still focused on him.

"That's... kind of philosophical, actually," Hadrian hummed, tapping the corner of his mouth.

"I assure you, that was completely accidental," Jesse replied drily, making half of the audience snort at this comment.

"You're alive! YOU'RE ALIVE!" Reginald shouted in excitement, eyes wide as he whipped around to face Jesse fully, "is the Founder with you? I heard-" Jesse's eyes flickered left to show Aiden drawing his arm back in a throwing motion, the egg in his hand perfectly poised.

"Look out!" Lizzie screamed.

Seriously, it was moments like these where they forgot that the characters onscreen couldn't hear them.

"Yes Isa is fine now MOVE-!" Jesse yelled at Reginald in a panic, but the egg Aiden had just thrown smashed against his back and knocked Reginald forward violently, a creeper seeming to unfold from within the egg with a feral hiss.

"Get out of the way!" Axel yelled at the screen, Olivia joining in in a panic, both of them forgetting (once again) that they couldn't hear them. Real-Reginald's hands were fidgeting rapidly.

Reginald pushed himself back up, turning around and furrowing his brow at the creeper in confusion. "What-?" he began, but the creeper, already flashing white rapidly, detonated and blasted him back.

"NO!" Isa screamed, hands going to her mouth. She automatically grabbed for the nearest person's hand; and with Reginald otherwise occupied in panic, that person's hand happened to be Milo's.

The blonde innkeeper's eyes flicked to Isa in surprise, his eyes slightly wide as he regarded the black-haired woman, before he returned his gaze to the screen, acutely aware of the faint blush beginning to make its way across his cheeks.

Reginald hit the opposite wall hard, before sliding down a bit and slumping against the wall, his head dropping forward limply. Benedict clucked as she trotted over to Reginald, looking completely amiable about the whole situation.

"Sh*t!" Cassie swore. Aiden didn't tear his eyes from the screen, completely absorbed in what was happening. Real-Isa glanced at Reginald, who was the color of tea at this point he was so pale. His hands were tight fists on his lap now. Isa's hand tightened as well, making Milo wince a bit in pain. He didn't say anything, though.

Real-Jesse uncomfortably glanced in Aiden's direction, but he didn't notice.

The spider hybrid started towards Reginald, but then stopped dead in her tracks at the shout that rang out in her ears a second later. "Not one more step!"

She turned to look at Aiden, who was now standing, an insane sort of rage dancing in his eyes. "I killed you once-!" he shouted at her, as if volume equaled power, "I can do it again!"

A lot of sideways glances were sent in Aiden's direction. The green-eyed boy was looking sick to his stomach now.

The spider hybrid simply shrugged a bit onscreen, looking rather wary still. "And you thought it'd be that easy?" she asked him mildly. "Sorry to be the one to break this to you, Aiden, but, if you haven't noticed by now..." Her eyes turned blood-red, cutting through the darkness, her mildly wary expression turning deadly serious. "I'm pretty tough to kill."

Aiden growled, celery-green eyes wide with fury. "Just DIE ALREADY!" he screamed at her, thunder and lightning blasting the sky apart, making the audience jump a bit.

"Whoa!" Dan blinked multiple times at the sinister declaration. "He's seriously lost it!"

The room glowed sinisterly from the lightning blast as he raised a gold egg with gold spots, his green eyes filled with a mad glint that none of the audience members had seen in his eyes before.

A mad glint that showed exactly how far gone Aiden was.

"You should've run when you had the chance," he snarled, before hurling the Blaze egg at the ground, the egg bursting apart on impact and releasing a Blaze that rose up in the air, staring at Jesse with dead eyes.

Lukas's arms were in a death grip around Jesse. Petra was clinging to Jace so tightly that her nails were digging into his skin, and he was wearing a long-sleeved shirt. Stampy was probably considering it a good thing that no one was paying him any attention right now, because his teeth were chattering so bad that he was practically gnawing his nails off.

The spider hybrid dodged under a fireball, before flipping herself out of the way of another one, almost doing a cartwheel in the process. The moment her feet touched back down, her knees tensed, and she lunged into the air, launching herself so high that she nearly went above the Blaze, which slowly started to tilt its head back to look at her-

Too slowly.

"Whoa!" Dan shouted, as if the others couldn't see this.

Her sword flashed up, reflecting another blast of thunder and lightning outside, before it came slashing down.

Jesse landed in a kneeling position, the sword resting on the floor lightly. Behind her, the Blaze keeled over and died on the spot.

"Awesome," Nell whispered, although she still looked horribly anxious about the whole situation. That actually might just have been her way of coping with it, though.

There was a loud yell, and Jesse's head snapped up and to her left to see Aiden lunging at her with his sword, raising it into the air above his head as he prepared to strike. Jesse whipped around and flicked the sword up into a block-

His sword smashed into hers, the force of the hit practically blasting her backwards into the floor.

"Jesse!" Olivia gasped in horror.

"Whoa!" Onscreen-Jesse shook her head furiously a few times to clear it. "Lukas wasn't kidding, this guy's way stronger than he was before!"

Lukas was muttering something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like "don't die don't die don't die."

This probably didn't make Jesse feel any better about the situation.

Aiden raised his sword into the air again, above his head, face a grotesque mask of fury and pure, unadulterated hatred. Jesse rolled sideways as his sword shrieked against the floor, the enchanted diamond grating against the stone to make a sound that sent chills up the other audience members' backs as it barely missed the spider hybrid. Jesse's six arms shot out, launching the spider hybrid into a flip, where she landed on her feet and whipped back to face Aiden, sword held out defensively.

Had any of the audience members been actually watching closely, they would've noticed the way her hands were trembling.

Aiden was glaring at Jesse, eyes practically glowing with insanity, his hands trembling. "This was supposed to be my world!" he nearly screamed at her, "and you ruined it!"

Isa frowned, but she was a little too shaken to say anything. Maybe one of the audience members would've commented as well, but they were completely absorbed in this scene and couldn't tear their eyes from the scene.

"Are you listening to yourself?!" Onscreen-Jesse yelled back in response, her sword still raised defensively as her voice rose an octave or two in surprise at the statement. "That's insane!"

Real-Jesse winced. "Um, that might not have been the most diplomatic way of putting it..."

And she was right- that seemed to be the wrong thing to say.

Aiden brought his sword down at her with another scream, and Jesse lashed upwards in response. The two enchanted blades smashed together with tremendous force, both blades pressing together intensely as both of the wielders refused to back down.

At least, until Jesse let her blade slide free, just a little bit.

Aiden stumbled forward, his overwhelming force sending him forward, and Jesse slid her sword out of the lock it had gotten stuck in and slammed the flat of the blade into Aiden's chest. The brown-haired boy flew backwards into the base of the throne, his sword sliding out of his hand a bit from the force of the hit. He opened his eyes, staring at Jesse with wide, slightly frightened eyes.

"Go, Jesse!" Axel cheered. Several of the other audience members cheered in response themselves.

Jesse didn't respond, simply sitting forward a bit with her heart thumping away in her throat.

Onscreen, the spider hybrid slowly approached, her expression changing slightly to something that was rather hard to identify. It might've been anger. It might've been concern.

It might have just been pity.

Aiden's eyes hardened again, and he let out a furious scream as he threw another egg at her and fled outside.

"Aiden! You coward, get back here!" Gabriel snapped at the screen.

It was Ivor's turn to blink, a scene from the first episode flashing into his mind. "Deja vu," he remarked quietly, soft enough so that .

Another Blaze rose into the air from the spot it had hit, Jesse having ducked out of the way just in the nick of time. It sent a flaming fireball at Jesse, the spider hybrid hopping back in the nick of time to avoid it as it plowed into the floor, barely missing her toes. She regarded the spot it had hit for a moment, before looking up at the Blaze. A moment of silence followed, Jesse sheathing her sword and dropping to all eights, before she shot forward like an arrow.

The Blaze followed her outside- into the rain. It jerked, sizzled as copious clouds of smoke began pouring off of it- and then burst into dust and smoke, keeling over. The spider hybrid slowly got to her feet, panting heavily as she turned to stare into the rain, the rain really pouring down and making visibility go down by quite a bit.

Aiden was standing at the end of a narrow strip of land, staring her down with a death glare, hand practically strangling the hilt of his sword.

Isa frowned, momentarily distracted. "I don't remember that being there."

Jesse slowly approached him, coming to the spot where the island branched out into that tiny strip of land and coming to a slow stop.

Aiden let out a sarcastic, insane sort of laugh that made Maya and Gill look at each other uneasily. "You just can't stand to see someone else in the spotlight, can you?!" he snarled at her. "You just can't let anyone else win!" Another insane chuckle that made Real-Jesse's hands tighten even more in her lap. "It just drives you crazy to see someone else succeed, doesn't it?!"

"Yeah, okay, it's official- this guy has gone completely cuckoo," Em announced.

"Aiden, stop doing this to yourself!" Jesse called back to him, a worried look coming over her face. "This isn't about winning or losing, it's about what's right!"

"And that," Aiden seethed, "is why you're gonna LOSE!"

The spider hybrid simply let out a tired sigh at that, thunder and lightning exploding through the sky.

Aiden drew his sword back, but Jesse simply dropped to all eights, green-and-red eyes narrowing in concentration.

"Jesse... what are you planning on doing?" Lukas asked slowly, his eyes narrowing.

The girl didn't respond, sitting forward even more and inadvertently dragging Lukas with her. (Not that he really minded that much...)

Both parties ran at each other.

Aiden swung downwards at the spider hybrid. Jesse simply threw all of her weight forward onto her uppermost arms, launching her legs into the air and kicking the blade aside enough that it slammed into the ground beside her. Doing a backflip, she landed on her feet and dodged the stabbing lunge he did, before leaping over him.

He pivoted on his heel and slashed downwards violently. Jesse simply dodged sideways, her entire body teetering over the gaping abyss-

"JESSE-!" Petra shouted.

The spider hybrid tapped her palm to the ground, a sticky web connecting herself to the ground, before she swung downwards and ended up on the other side of the narrow strip of land, making Aiden whirl around to face her again, the brown-haired boy practically growling. "Stop running away!" he nearly screamed at her.

Jesse shook her head simply. "I'm not running away. If you want to fight me, you're going to have to trap me."

Aiden's brow furrowed, and he slowly relaxed a bit as he tried to process what she was saying. "Are... you planning on dodging around until I'm tired out...?" he finally asked, voice no longer a near-hysterical scream.

The spider hybrid let the tiniest ghost of a smile sneak over her features. "If you want to fight me, trap me. But I'm not going to fight you." She paused for a moment, rather thoughtfully, the smile fading slightly. "I don't want to fight you."

There was a long moment of silence, only interrupted by the sound of rain following and the sound of thunder.

"You don't have a choice."

And then Aiden was sprinting right at Jesse.

"Jesse, watch out!" Stampy cried out.

His sword came whistling down at Jesse, who was completely unarmed-

Her hands clapped together.

The audience goggled at the screen.

The spider hybrid's uppermost set of arms had slapped together, trembling slightly from the exertion, but the blade had stopped, inches from her head, her hands keeping the blade away from her head. Jesse slowly shifted her weight to her left, the blade wavering a bit... and then let go of the blade.

The sword's edge slipped down the edge of her palm, leaving a bloody gash there as the sword thudded into the dirt ground, inches from the edge, the force of the impact jarring Aiden's arm and making him go "oof" in surprise.

"Jesse, your hand!" Mevia exclaimed.

Otto and Harper didn't even bother hiding it this time; they looked at one another in surprise.

The spider hybrid flipped right over Aiden's head afterwards, making him whip around and fall to one knee, his foot slipping in the mud that the dirt bridge was becoming.

Jesse slipped as well, her feet touching down in a rather slimy mud puddle and skidding before giving out beneath her and making her slide a few feet so that she was more at the edge of the narrow strip of land, half of her body dangling off the edge.

Lukas let out a very manly yelp at the sight of that.

She quickly scrambled back to her feet, ignoring the way mud and blood mingled together on her palm from where she'd tried to catch herself using her injured hand.

Aiden snarled in an almost feral way before raking his way back to his feet and running straight at Jesse. Almost instinctively, Jesse did another leap into the air, although a smaller one- she didn't want to actually slide off the edge of the narrow strip of land- and kicked off of Aiden's back to give herself enough boost to land safely on the other side.

Aiden slipped again, his sword whipping around and the flat of it hitting his pocket, knocking the flint and steel out and over to Jesse, who picked them up.

"Oh- there's that taken care of, I guess," Gill said, blinking a few times.

The sword twisted itself out of his hand, clanging against the edge of the muddy strip of land, before falling down into the abyss.

Aiden struggled to get up, his entire front covered in mud- before his left hand landed in a mud puddle and skidded-

Right off the edge.

Unbalanced, Aiden desperately tried to lunge to his other side, but his momentum was already too heavy, and he was already rolling off the edge of the tiny peninsula of land-

"Oh Notch!" Lukas gasped, realization striking like a lightning bolt.

Onscreen, Jesse's eyes widened as well.

Real-Aiden's hands clenched even more tightly. It was a wonder his hands weren't covered in blood by now, to be honest.

Onscreen, the brown-haired boy let out a scream as he fell- he grabbed for the ledge- his hand slipped- Aiden squeezed his eyes shut instinctively as he reached out desperately for help that was never going to come-

Someone in the audience gasped.

A white, slightly red-tinted string lashed around his wrist.

His eyes flew open again, and he looked up, squinting his eyes against the rain, to see Jesse leaning over the edge herself, one arm that the string was connected to flung out, panting heavily. The hand just so happened to be the one Jesse had cut earlier.

Real-Aiden's eyes widened, and he looked over at Jesse. The black-haired girl's eyes were slightly wide, but there was a soft sort of smile on her lips at the same time.

The spider hybrid's breathing slowly steadied, and she eased her weight backwards, her other sets of arms carefully propelling herself backwards. After a few seconds, Aiden was back on the ledge, Jesse gently wrapping the remainder of the blood-soaked web around her bloody hand and bandaging it, still breathing quite heavily and staring blankly at her hand.

A moment later, she looked up, blinking, as if she was just remembering something. This turned out to be a fact as one of her upper arms came swinging around and slapped Aiden full in the face, making his head snap to the side. "That was for Lukas," she told him, matter-of-factly, before going back to wrapping her hand.

Half of the audience sniggered slightly at that. Lukas looked rather pleased.

The brown-haired boy was staring at Jesse, his brow furrowing in confusion as she finished wrapping her hand and let it drop to her side. "... why."

She raised her eyebrow at the single word.

The audience was relieved to see that the mad glint in Aiden's eye was gone, and in its place was a whole bunch of confusion. "Why would you help me...? I destroyed a city. I hurt Lukas. I tried to hurt you- hell, I tried to kill you!" Aiden's voice was starting to get loud and hysterical. "I tried to kill you, and Lukas, and the Founder. I tried to murder you!"

Cassie winced at that for some reason.

Aiden continued, counting off things he was. "I'm an attempted murderer. A- a coward, a thief, a power-hungry maniac, completely schizophrenic-"

Jesse cut him off, raising one finger. "An idiot."

Half of the audience may or may not have snorted at that comment.

Aiden paused, staring Jesse full in the eyes, before giving a slow nod. "That... too. So... knowing that I'm all those things..." he slowly shook his head. "Why would you try to save me?"

Several audience members glanced at Jesse.

They were wondering the same thing themselves.

"Don't you know I'm too far gone...?" Aiden's boastful, cruel manner had gone, to the relief of everyone in the room. He was starting to curl up on himself, hugging his knees and starting to rock in place, back and forth. "I can't be saved at this point." A weak, insane laugh rumbled through his throat. This insanity was perhaps scarier than the furious, screaming insanity that Aiden had formerly been possessed by- it was a quieter, weaker, softer sort of insanity. The laugh of someone who was insane, knew he was insane, and had simply given up on fixing it.

A quiet pause, the only sound in the whole room the sound of rain pouring down from the heavens.

"You don't mind if I try to anyway?" Jesse asked, quietly.

Aiden let out a weak, sarcastic laugh, running a hand through his hair, and it was hard to tell whether the water running down his face was from the rain or from tears. "Oh Notch, are you serious-?" he cut himself off with another weak laugh.

He let out a long, slightly annoyed sigh a moment later, letting his hand drop over his eyes. "... do you really care about people that much?" he finally muttered.

The spider hybrid finally let a tiny smile, and raised her shoulders in the tiniest shrug possible. "Yeeeeaaaaahhhh..." The pitch of her voice rose a little bit at the end of the single word, trailing off into nothingness a moment later.

"You did it..."

Both of them looked over to see Reginald gaping at her, holding the Eversource in his arms. Benedict clucked away happily, oblivious to the way Reginald seemed to be gingerly holding himself.

Reginald shook himself out of it and said, quickly, "Jesse, we need to get out of here."

As if to confirm his words, the whole island suddenly shook with the rumble of an explosion.

Isa's lips thinned a bit.

She'd almost forgotten.

Reginald sent a glare in Aiden's direction. "What do you want to do with him?" he asked, voice growing considerably colder.

Aiden shivered, hands curling into fists. Jesse looked at him for a moment, raising one hand to her mouth and thumbing the corner of it thoughtfully, as if deliberating what she was going to do.

The brown-haired boy began to talk, quietly, but it was so soft that it was almost inaudible over the rain. "Just... leave me here. After all..." another one of those weak, insane chuckles. "After everything I've done, I deserve to die, don't I?" His voice was almost saturated with self-loathing, and the last syllable that he spoke cracked.

Lukas uncomfortably glanced at Aiden.

After seeing Aiden betray him, attempt to kill him and the girl he lo- liked, not that other word, haha, no way- liked, destroy a city, steal, and watching this Aiden slowly change into a much crueler person, he should've disliked him.

No, that wasn't quite accurate.

He should've hated him.

Maybe he did hate him, just a little bit.

But right now he just felt sorry for him.

"I'm..." Aiden let out another, soft, insane chuckle. "I'm sorry."

Onscreen-Jesse regarded Aiden for a little longer, before letting out a sigh and shaking her head. "Aiden, if I threw a plate on the floor and broke it, and said 'sorry' to the plate, it doesn't return it to the way it was before."

Both Aidens flinched at that, but Jesse wasn't finished.

"But," and Aiden looked up to see Jesse smiling slightly, extending her hand to him. "If you work to fix it, and do your hardest to fix it, people remember that. Sometimes you fix it. Sometimes you can't. It might never be as good as it was before, but... if you try to fix it, people will remember that." She reached up and crossed her heart before covering her eye, a sincere look in her red-and-green eyes. "I promise."

Real-Aiden glanced at his friends.

He'd have to keep that in mind.

Jace sniffled a little, making everyone look at him. He had tears beading in his eyes. "Th... that was... that was beautiful, Jesse."

Real-Jesse let out a little laugh, shaking her head and swiping a hand across her own eyes. "It was also probably made up on the spot."

This brought on a few chuckles, lightening the considerably solemn mood the room had fallen into.

Onscreen-Aiden stared up at Jesse for a moment, completely blankly... before a tiny smile made its way over his face. He stood up slowly, a tired, sad, but somehow happy smile on his face. "Then I guess I should get started on fixing things, huh?"

Jesse smiled and nodded a bit. "I'm glad I finally got through to you." She turned to Reginald, face growing slightly more serious. "Let's get going, then."

Reginald 'humphed' slightly. "More than you deserve, frankly," he muttered, but he also followed Jesse as she began leading her way out of the room, Reginald stopping and waiting for Aiden to pass him before following Jesse back out of the throne room.


A/N: Wow, this is long xD Like, I'm serious, this might be one of the longest chapters so far.

So, yeah... LOTS of changes. I like this new version, though, so, no harm done x3

Wow, Phantasmagoria is going way quicker than I thought it would. I might end up working on it alongside this story, rather than next year like I thought xD

RQTC: What website is the best for a blog?

Like, which website is the best for making blogs and that sort of thing? (I'm considering using Wix, any other ideas?)

Oh yeah... hints! Almost forgot.

Hint 1: FNaF hallucination.

Hint 2: Reverse.

Hint 3 (dead giveaway for the name if you figure out the code): ZYHQZ

Hint for the code: Gregor the Overlander and the Code of Claw.

Response to reviews!

Kaos Ruin: Nope.

LunarStarsMoons: (laughs) Ahh, sorry. / Yep, we're friends now x3

RWBYSTRQ: What do you think? (grins)

the indecisive bird: xD / Yep :3

Emily The Avenger: Bnqqebr. (Same code as Hint 3)

BeliTheGhoti0304: I'm not nearly as horny as the narrator, so not exactly. You're on the right track, though, I'll give you that.

RapidSammi: (laughs) Ooh, speaking of Phantasmagoria, I have a rough draft of Waverly. Do you want me to run it by you and see what you think of it?

Rabbits rule: Yes, of course it could, but glomp is more fun to say. x3 / (blinks) (actually reads what I copy-and-pasted) Oh. I just made that needlessly awkward, didn't I xD / Thanks! / Lol, I agree with Kylik.

CrystalTearsofFaith: What I'm so jealous I have to wait until June 23 to get out of school. / I'm going to the RISD Pre-College Program! / (laughs)

A-Problematic-Writer: Yes, you were quite right on that count.

homeworkoverload: We're dismantled, we're mishandled, but we won't be skipped and swayed! / (laughs)

RavenBlaze4850: (points out the part where it says that Jesse would never be able to replicate the move again) xD / (nods) Very true. xD / (coughs) Watch me (points at my DA account)

Milo: Nope, not even close xD

Jack638: :3

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMer101: I've literally memorized it xD / Not quite, but you're on the right track :3 / (laughs)

AquaK13: Yeah, yeah he is xD / Heehee :3 / Yes, I've heard of it. Haven't watched it, though. / (laughs)

RebekahTPE: Nope, though you're not the only person to guess that xD / Yeah, I still don't know how that happened. xD / Pringles, I guess. I don't eat chips very often xD

LegoGirl794: Fairly close on the first guess (you're on the right track), not so much on the second one.

Baiiii!

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