Hi guys! Did you know...
THAT WE JUST RECEIVED 1700 REVIEWS ON THIS STORY OMG
So, because of that, before we jump into the actual story, Imma waste some space and time with speculation and theories about Season 2 xD Sorry! HCM will be put on delay for, like, a few minutes.
Some things that we know for sure are:
- Jesse gets their hand stuck inside a gauntlet because of a 'simple treasure hunt' going wrong.
- StacyPlays and StampyCat make a cameo reappearance!
- Petra and Lukas DO return, but Lukas's level of involvement is still a bit murky.
- There is a 'dark and ancient' power in this. (If they say it's Herobrine, I will die laughing hysterically.)
- There are going to be some Guardians.
- At least part of the episode takes place underwater.
- There is a llama.
And it seems to be a misbehaved llama, too xD
Things that we can probably assume are:
- Jesse, Axel, Olivia, and the gang are no longer as close. (It says so in the TellTale synopsis.)
- The episodes take place later on in the future. (Like, several years or something.) It may be a possible 'utopia' situation.
- The llama is someone's pet?
- The villager and the guy on the teaser image are really important somehow.
What we don't know as of yet:
- How involved Lukas is in this season.
- If Olivia and Axel will be showing up.
- If any of the Order members will be showing up.
- What the 'dark and ancient' power is.
- If any characters from Season 1 are making a reappearance.
- Where the llama came from.
Lol the llama shows up in every single list xD
Well, what do you guys think?
The group crept over to a large stack of blocks, ducking underneath it and sticking their heads over the edge hesitantly. The screen switched to show dozens of zombies milling around outside the front entrance.
"Yeah, that front door is a no-go," Petra said, flatly.
There was a sudden groan, and all of the zombies suddenly... well, 'suddenly'. More like 'rapidly lurched'- and turned around to see the three hybrids and Ivor crouching behind the stack of blocks.
"Are you kidding me?!" Lukas hissed, his hair rising a bit. It looked as if someone had rubbed a balloon on his head or something.
Soren put his head in his hands. "At this point, I'm thinking you lot should just start bringing a lucky rabbits' foot with you or something."
"I don't think you're alone in that, Soren."
"Well, blonde dude, besides the fact that Jesse and- uhh," the narrator spoke up, making Jesse's eyes flicker up to gaze in the general direction of the narrator, "well, actually, maybe Ivor, are the only two members of the group who have outfits that are even remotely designed for stealth... yeah, no wonder you guys got spotted."
"Can Lukas even hear the narrator?" Harper wondered.
Otto frowned at the screen a bit thoughtfully. "No, I don't think so..."
"Yeah, uh," Jesse nearly cut the narrator off in a drawl, turning to look at her friends, "I don't think you really need me to say this, but, um, run."
"No, ya think?!" Cassie exclaimed, throwing her arms into the air.
The group all tore off again, Jesse tossing Ivor back onto her back as she dropped to all eights and scampered off, Lukas dropping to all fours and following after her with his ears flattened against his head and his tail flapping in the wind. Petra regarded the zombies for a second, before hovering into the air as well and then shooting after the rest of the group, leaving a small trail of flames in her wake.
Jesse was racing along at full tilt, practically flying over the dirt, before something flashed in the corner of her vision and she craned her head back, momentarily distracted from the problem at hand.
A silhouette was staring at them, yellow eyes narrowing at her from behind the eyeholes of a white pumpkin head, before they turned and walked out of sight, the windowsill hiding them from view.
"Wait- what the heck?! What was that?!" Magnus exclaimed, looking slightly spooked.
"Was that person wearing a pumpkin head?" Soren mused, eyes narrowing at the screen. "Are there going to be some Endermen in here or something?"
A chorus of groans rose from the audience. "Please, no," Gabriel groaned aloud.
"The-?!" Jesse blurted onscreen, eyes widening slightly in surprise.
"What? What did you see?" Petra called out from where she was literally flying over the dirt, flying around so that she was hovering along at a rapid clip in front of Jesse, looking a little curious at Jesse's sudden comment.
The spider hybrid's brow crinkled in confusion as she kept rushing along. "Dunno. Some... creepy person... in the window." She glanced back at the window, which they'd already passed, before adding, a bit more thoughtfully, "they had a white pumpkin for a head."
"Do white pumpkins even exist?" Real-Petra wondered to nobody in particular, leaning forward to get a better look at the thing.
"Yes," Hadrian, Mevia, Otto and Harper chorused.
"White pumpkin?" Ivor asked, looking down at Jesse with a curious expression. "There's no such thing."
"They're not a popular plant, so people don't plant them that often," Otto offered as an explanation. "People think they lack nutrients because of the lack of orange pigment." He paused, perhaps for dramatic effect. "But yes, they do exist."
"Let's save the agricultural discussions for inside, huh?" Lukas asked, raising his eyebrows.
The spider hybrid nearly tripped and landed flat on her face at that.
Real-Lukas huffed a bit, his cheeks going slightly pink as several members of the audience chuckled at that statement. Real-Jesse tilted her head back before reaching up and absentmindedly patting his cheeks.
The giggles intensified.
The hybrids soon drew level with a large series of huge glass windows that were nearly level with the treetops. "Guys, get to one of the windows!" Jesse shouted, skidding to a stop rapidly.
"Easy for you to say," the narrator drawled, making her glare up at the sky.
Jesse glanced back at Ivor. "Ivor, get ready to-" she began to instruct him, but the potionologist was already starting to unlock his legs from the sitting position on her back.
"Yes, yes, I got it!" he shouted back.
"Just so long as you do." With that, Jesse suddenly shot back into a standing position, Ivor quickly doing a half flip and throwing his arms around Jesse's neck tightly as the spider hybrid shot a huge strand of string at the nearest window. A neat flick of the wrist, and the two of them were jerked off of their feet onto the windowsill, where Petra was already waiting. She caught ahold of Jesse and set the spider hybrid down neatly as Ivor let go, before all three of them turned and looked towards Lukas.
The ocelot hybrid muttered something under his breath that the audience couldn't quite catch- something along the lines of "wish I could fly"- before bolting up a nearby tree. Several leaves and branches quaked and bent, tracking his progress through it, before he popped back out at the top of the tree, stray leaves stuck in his fluffy blonde hair and his tail twitching around rather irritably.
Petra patted a playfully pouting Lukas on the back.
Onscreen, Jesse shot another strand of string at the tree branch nearest to Lukas. The ocelot hybrid quickly ripped the string free and wrapped it around his wrist, before nodding and waving at Jesse.
Jesse forcibly jerked her entire arm back, the sticky strand jerking Lukas out of the tree and straight at Jesse, snapping several branches along the way as he went flying through the air. The ocelot hybrid whirled around so that his back was facing Jesse, squeezing his eyes shut, while Jesse threw her arms up defensively in an ill-fated attempt to catch him.
He collided straight into Jesse, making them both slam forcibly into the glass, which in turn caused the glass to shatter from the impact and let the both of them topple through rather loudly, landing with an earth-shaking thud.
Most of the audience members winced in perfect sync with Onscreen-Petra and Ivor.
"Ow," Jesse said flatly, from where she was lying on her back amidst several pieces of sharp glass.
"Is that all you have to say about that?!" Em exclaimed.
"Considering we've survived Boom Town, gone through Wool World when it was infested with Endermen, fought the Witherstorm, and survived getting thrown off of Sky City," Jesse replied somewhat blankly, "yeah, pretty much."
Lukas was lying on top of her, rolling over so that he was looking at Jesse, his face centimeters from hers. "Urgh... sorry, Jesse."
The narrator was chanting something very quietly. Something along the lines of "kiss, kiss, kiss."
"Yeah, I- I don't think we realized that was going to happen," Real-Lukas nodded in agreement, wincing at the painful position the two of them were in. Annnnd diplomatically ignoring the narrator's chanting with the slightest blush on his face. He totally didn't look like a tomato. Nope. No idea what anybody was talking about.
Jesse waved it off, leaning into Lukas with an absentminded "meh", her own cheeks a rather rosy shade of pink.
Lukas grimaced as he straightened up, dusting stray leaves out of his hair so that they ghosted down to land amidst the shattered glass pieces that were reflecting some warm light.
"I'm just glad I'm more durable than an actual spider," the spider hybrid replied, waving it off and letting Lukas crawl off of her before standing up herself, wincing as she stretched and cracked her neck before dusting a coating of powdered glass off of her. "Ouch."
"More durable than the average human, as well- I think a fall like that would normally have broken a couple bones," Ivor murmured, eyes narrowing thoughtfully as he gazed at the screen. "I wonder if being a hybrid boosts the durability of the hybrid as well...?"
"Hmm, do you think?"
"You guys okay?" Petra asked, hovering down quickly while Ivor climbed down using a series of chests and furnaces, being careful not to stand on any one of them for too long.
Jesse winced a bit and rubbed her back using her middle set of arms. "Well, I think my back's going to be one massive bruise come tomorrow, but sure, I'm fine." That out of the way, she looked around at their surroundings. The four of them were standing in a warmly lit room, a creeper wearing a kitchen apron in the corner with lots of furnaces and several food storage units. "Hm. Looks like this is some sort of... kitchen," she hummed thoughtfully.
Aiden nodded, drawing several people's attention to him. "Looks like." When he noticed everyone's eyes on him, he shrank back a little bit.
Muffled voices came through the door, making them all turn to the door as Jesse continued dusting herself off. The door opened a second later, and CAPTAINSPARKLEZ stepped through, along with some guy they hadn't met before. He wore a teal tank top and leather pants, as well as a pair of sunglasses with rims that matched his messy, brown hair and beard.
"Oh, hey, that's me, and-" Sparklez blinked, looking a little startled at the person next to him onscreen. "TorqueDawg?"
"I think we could avoid a lot of unpleasantness if- AUGH!" Onscreen-Sparklez yelped loudly and jumped back as he caught sight of the four of them in the kitchen, stumbling back into TORQUEDAWG, who also looked rather startled.
"What the-?!"
The four hybrids stood there in silence for a moment, staring at the two newcomers with an expression something akin to a deer in headlights. Jesse's red eye was gleaming in the firelight, her four extra arms still working on dusting the broken glass off before slowly coming to an awkward stop at her sides. Lukas's ears twitched anxiously, cyan eyes turning a more golden color in the light and his tail curling in on itself. Petra still had Blaze Rods hovering around her, her gold eyes glowing faintly, and Ivor was just in a more defensive position.
Slowly, Jesse let a sheepish smile sneak over her face, and she lifted one of her lower arms and waved a bit. "Um... hi."
Sparklez flinched back a little more at that, looking rather frightened. "Uh... h-hi? You're... y-you're monsters...?" he trailed off, nervously.
"I guess I can see why he'd be so nervous about this," Jesse mused. "I mean, after all, we just suddenly appeared in this mansion, and we're pretty obviously not... fully human."
"Yeah. Honestly, I'm surprised that people haven't been all that surprised before this point," Lukas grunted.
Isa shrugged a bit. "The Sky Citizens are a bit sheltered... so they wouldn't know that you're dangerous. Reginald would, because he sometimes helps me with getting resources-"
Reginald waved a bit, grinning lopsidedly.
"But they wouldn't have known that Jesse was all that dangerous."
Milo hummed. "Well, they would've thought she looked weird," he amended. "But yes, I don't think they wouldn't thought that she was really all that dangerous. Or dangerous at all. We don't deal with mobs often," he added, slightly defensively, when everyone turned to look at him.
"Besides," Lukas said, patting Jesse gently, "she really doesn't look harmful in the least."
Everyone looked at the petite girl, who almost owlishly blinked at them twice. They really had to admit- she looked a bit like a cute doll, or maybe a stuffed animal. Not harmful at all.
Lukas crossed his arms playfully. "Hey, I'm half ocelot, not half monster. Get it right," he teased, although his playful smile faded a second later in slight concern. "Uh, you okay?"
TorqueDawg scowled a bit, although he looked very hesitant to say anything.
"Thank Notch, for once TorqueDawg is speechless," Stacy said, putting her hands in the air.
"Oh, you know him?" Olivia asked the YouTubers, who were all agreeing with Stacy.
"Yeah, he's-" Stampy paused, sharing a look with Dan, the nearest person to him. Dan raised his shoulders in a tiny, helpless shrug at the odd look Stampy was sending him. "... well, we know him," the cat-hoodie-wearing-boy finished.
Jesse's green eyes narrowed a bit at their reactions, thoughtfully.
"Um, okay, maybe... maybe we should introduce ourselves?" Sparklez asked, nervously. "I'm, uh... I'm CaptainSparklez."
Jesse waved a little bit, giving him a friendly smile. The smile seemed to reassure Sparklez a bit, because he smiled back weakly before gesturing at TorqueDawg. "That's... uh... that's TorqueDawg."
The spider hybrid gave a nod, lower arms absentmindedly reaching up to rub her back again. "Nice to meet you guys," she said cheerfully.
Sparklez's weak smile faltered, before it fell off altogether. "Uh, are you... are you going to hurt us?"
Jesse threw her arms up rapidly, making Sparklez flinch back as she put her hands up in a hasty surrender, a startled look coming over her face. "Um, haha- no. We're not here to hurt anyone or anything like that." One of her lower arms tugged out the book-invitation from the Host. "We, um, got invited here by someone called the Host, and, er, not sure if you've noticed," Jesse jerked her head at the window they'd come through, "but there are a crap-ton of zombies hanging around out there."
Sparklez blinked. "But... you're... half... monster," he said tentatively (Onscreen-Lukas jokingly huffed in an offended way). "Wouldn't it...?"
"Just confuse the monsters, because we're HALF. Zombies don't seem to care very much either way; they sense that we have brains, and they want it. Spiders, Blazes, and creepers- they're a little more willing to listen to us and... well, nine times out of ten they won't attack right away. But every other mob can pretty much have at us," Jesse responded promptly.
"Ah." Sparklez rubbed his head awkwardly, frowning. "Darn."
He winced a second later. "Uh, sorry for the language."
"Ivor uses much worse, don't worry."
Half of the audience repressed loud snorts at that. Real-Ivor scowled a bit, although his lips were definitely twitching and he was fighting a small smile.
Ivor halfheartedly swatted at Lukas, scowling a bit. Sparklez grinned weakly at the childish behavior, before rubbing the back of his head awkwardly. "Uh, that wasn't about you getting an invitation... just that I was hoping that you could explain things."
Jesse gave Sparklez a friendly smile. "Hey, no problem. Ummm..." she tilted her head, a sheepish smile coming over her face. "This might be a bit late, but, I'm Jesse. The ocelot hybrid here is Lukas, the Blaze hybrid is Petra, and he-" she pointed at Ivor. "-is Ivor."
"'Jesse'?" TorqueDawg scoffed. "That's a boy's name."
Lizzie put her head in her hands. "... yeah, he's... he's always like that. Please just ignore him."
"Noted."
Onscreen-Jesse's eyebrow went up as she stared at TorqueDawg for a few seconds. "Well... I mean, it's a unisex name and could go either way, so... I can't really deny that..." she trailed off, a bit sheepishly.
TorqueDawg squinted at her, before gruffly continuing, "What are you guys supposed to be, anyway? Some sort of Loser Patrol?"
"Hey!" Petra straightened up indignantly. "I think we're quite good, thank you very much."
"And very good-looking," Jace mumbled automatically, quite quietly.
Jesse heard, though, and shot Jace a huge grin.
Onscreen, Petra crossed her arms. "Can I set this guy on fire, Jesse?" she asked casually, the flames from the furnaces growing a little brighter.
"I, uh..." Dan rubbed his head awkwardly. "I think she's joking?"
He was quiet for a moment, before tacking on: "I hope."
Onscreen-Jesse quickly waved her hands a bit, a sheepish look coming over her face. "Uhh, m-maybe we shouldn't do that?" she asked, a questioning tone coming into her voice, before she turned back to TorqueDawg, sheepish smile still fixed on her face. "Er, no, we're- we're really not. Since we're hybrids."
She cocked her head to one side a second later, thoughtfully. "And I'm actually fairly certain that all four of us can do some rather lethal things, from what I remember." There was a short pause. "... hm."
Stampy winced. "Er, perhaps you shouldn't have made that comment."
"Yeah, it- did not seem like the most diplomatic move ever," Jesse agreed, wincing a little bit herself.
There was a rather long, rather awkward silence at that, before Sparklez cleared his throat nervously, giving Jesse a weak grin. "Haha, yes, well, that sea of zombies has all of us trapped here, so maybe you could hold off on trying out your 'lethal things' on anything until later?"
Jesse quickly put her hands up in surrender, a sheepish smile coming over her face. "Oh- yeah, no, sorry. I didn't mean it like that. Of course." A moment later, she registered something and blinked. "Wait- 'all of us'...? How many more people are in this place?"
A/N: Once again, shorter than normal. There really isn't that much to talk about in the earlier chapters... things don't really get fun until next chapter, now that I think about it.
RQTC: Do you think Season 2 will be available for pre-order on all other devices excluding PC?
I mean, I hope... because otherwise I'll have to download it in August?
I would literally pay 50 dollars for Season 2 though; for both preorder and anything else. I mean holy Notch.
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