Sparklez frowned as he did a couple mental calculations. "Uh, counting the two of us... seven?" he estimated, after a few seconds of thought.

"Mmhm. Most of them useless," TorqueDawg grunted.

Stacy scowled at the screen, crossing her arms. Lizzie's brow darkened as well, the pink-haired girl leaning back with a scowl fixed upon her face. Dan frowned, his red hair (had it changed again? Jesse could've sworn it had been white earlier) accentuating the thunderous look on his face. Stampy winced a bit at the rude comment but said nothing.

"Well that was... rude," Lukas said, after a few seconds of awkward silence.

"Yeah. Like we said," Sparklez said, adjusting his sunglasses slightly, "he's like that all the time."

"I tell you what, the minute all them weird zombies are gone, TorqueDawg is outta here!" and he rudely shouldered Jesse aside as he strolled off, making the spider hybrid stagger a bit before she caught herself.

Jace frowned.

Steadying herself, Jesse arched her eyebrow as she turned around to gaze in his direction, but she didn't comment on the rudeness or anything. (Though she honestly should've.) "Uh... okay. So the sea of zombies isn't normal. That's nice to hear."

Petra raised a finger, brow furrowing a bit. "Two moons... is normal though, right?" she questioned.

Sparklez blinked at Petra, looking as if she'd just asked if the sky was up. "The... moons? Yeah."

"Why don't you know this stuff?" TorqueDawg sneered. "You from, like, out of town or something?"

Before anything else could be said, a sudden clap of thunder on the audience's end made Jesse squeak, Stampy spaz out and land on the floor, and Benedict to squawk and send a flurry of feathers into the air, several more members of the audience letting out a loud yell in shock, and with a loud groan everything went black. Even the screen.

"What the f*ck," Cassie demanded, sounding a bit shaky, "just happened?"

Ellegaard grunted. "The thunderstorm must be screwing with the power... Harper, can you come with me and help me see if there's anything we can do to fix it? You're the only one with a flashlight."

A beam of light flickered on, Harper shining the flashlight at the floor to avoid hitting someone right in the eyes. "Y-yeah. Sure thing," she said, sounding a bit shaky herself.

"Ow! Ellie, that's my-" Magnus let out a breathless squeak suddenly. "Ribs!"

"Sorry-"

Gabriel grunted. "Ellegaard, I think you just stepped on my foot."

"Terribly sorry!"

Harper shone the flashlight in the Order's direction, making them all yelp and flinch a bit as she accidentally shone the flashlight right in their eyes. She hastily raised it a bit more. "Sorry," she added, wincing a bit sympathetically.

Finally, Ellegaard managed to disentangle herself from the rest of the group, and Harper traversed her way over the floor, before the two of them disappeared from the room- the flashlight beam vanished from sight as the door groaned.

There was a few moments of silence, before Aiden shifted and cleared his throat. "Uh, Cassie?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you tell Winslow to get off my lap? He crawled on a couple minutes ago and he's not getting off."

There was a few seconds of dead silence. Aiden winced and was about to apologize about that when-

"Aiden..."

"Yes?"

Cassie's voice sounded very odd when she spoke again. "Winslow's sitting under my hat. He's terrified of thunderstorms. He's been sitting there for the past twenty minutes now."

Aiden felt his shoulders tense, and his throat suddenly went perfectly dry. "Uhh..." he slowly looked down at his lap- not that he could actually see anything; it was so freaking dark in here right now.

"Then what the hell is sitting on my lap right now?"

"Well, it's not Reuben, he's still in my lap," Jesse spoke up, patting the little pig in her lap. He let out a cheerful snort.

"And it's not Benedict, she's right here," Isa called from her seat, wrapping her arms a little more tightly around the tiny chicken.

Aiden was about to say something in return when they all heard a familiar voice, their heads swiveling to look.

Ariza was perched on the coffee table, glowing papers surrounding her as she absentmindedly flicked through her papers. (Lukas tightened his hold on Jesse protectively.) For some reason, the glow didn't seem to be providing any actual illumination for the room. "Phantasmagoria... Phantasmagoria... oh, there it is. Okay." She wrenched out one of the papers and glanced over it. "Okay... wow. The exterior of this building is quite nice, actually. I actually expected it to be in worse shape, since it's been a thing since the late 1700s." She set the paper down and went back to rustling through the others.

Despite himself, Lukas leaned forward along with Jesse to get a nice look at it. Ariza wasn't kidding; it was an at-least 20-floor tall brownstone building with a green-tiled roof, a tiny gold fleur-de-lis (well, tiny on the diagram) on the very top of the building.

"Oh- when you showed us the rules, I thought this was the hotel," Petra spoke up, sounding a little wondering.

"Well, I did at first too, but then I realized that this mansion doesn't have anywhere near 26 floors," Jesse replied, grinning sheepishly.

"Oh yeah. Good point."

"Hm." Ariza took off the set of reading glasses she was wearing, staring down at the paper thoughtfully. "The fabled '27th' floor. Supposedly above the attic, which I guess is the 26th..." There was a long, thoughtful silence.

"Perhaps I ought to look into that."

Suddenly, with a loud beeping sound, the screen came back on, Ariza disappearing in the same moment. Aiden looked down at his lap just in time to see a black shadow dart off, before back up at the screen, which had a strange, glitchy sort of 'PLEASE STAND BY' screen on it.

"Oh, I guess the TV's back on." Mevia paused, before glancing up at the ceiling. "I wonder why the lights aren't on tho-" She cut herself off, blinking, before cocking her head slightly. "Are Harper and Ellegaard coming back?"

"I shouldn't think so... the power room is kinda far from here. Why?" Olivia wondered, turning to look at Mevia.

"Well, it's just- I thought I heard voices-?"

"WHAT THE F*CKING F*CK?!"

Everyone jumped and turned to see Isa literally throw the remote onto the floor with a shriek, scrambling away from it and seizing ahold of the nearest person (who happened to be Milo).

Milo looked both slightly amused at the fact that Isa had just cursed, and a bit shocked from the sudden shriek. "Er- what seems to be the-"

Isa didn't even let him finish his question. "THE REMOTE JUST BUZZED IN MY HAND!"

Hadrian snorted derisively at that. "Is that i-"

"NO THAT IS NOT IT, LOOK AT THE SCREEN!"

Everyone's head turned to look at the screen- just in time to catch the sight of what looked like a bloody severed head onscreen flash off, the screen flickering right back off a second later.

"F*ck that!" Cassie yelled, grabbing onto Aiden and holding on tightly. A few moments passed, before she shrieked (making Aiden wince, seeing as she'd basically just screamed in his ear), "WHAT WAS THAT?!"

"What was what?"

Several yells and a collective jump as everyone whirled around to see Ellegaard back in the doorway. Ellegaard looked a bit bemused by the collective, frightened reaction. "Uh, well, Harper's getting the power back on right now? We just found a stock of flashlights, so... I thought I'd bring some back? What's wrong?"

"So- the power for the screen is still not on?" Stampy asked, voice a little muffled from where he had half of his face hidden behind Dan's shoulder.

Ellegaard shook her head as she passed around the flashlights. "Nope; we're still trying to figure out the generator. We're pretty sure that as of right now, it's nearly out of juice, so it's only going to be able to power the screen and maybe some heating in the place."

"But the power for the screen- it's not on?" Maya asked, shakily.

"No..."

Everyone shared worried looks. "Then...?" Aiden trailed off. Gill picked up, frowning and crossing his arms.

"How did the screen turn on just now...?"

There was a sudden zzhhhwip! sound, and a loud thud rang out.

Everyone looked around frantically, before noticing that despite the screen still being black, there were now several eyes darting around in a panic. Petra was glowing slightly as well, and I'm not saying that her skin looked healthy- we're talking actual glowing here.

"Oh." Ellegaard blinked a bit, disorientedly. "I guess the power's back on? At least for the screen?"

The thudding of footsteps, and then the door banged open and slammed shut again.

Isa scooped the remote back up hastily and paused the episode as Jesse grabbed the flashlight Ellegaard had just set on the coffee table (ignoring the way a chill was in the air from Ariza's momentary appearance) and shone it in Harper's direction, the white-haired woman looking shell-shocked with her flashlight forgotten in her hand.

"Oh, hey, you're back-"

"I AM NOT GOING BACK TO THE POWER ROOM BY MYSELF FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT." She shook her head frantically before rapidly walking over to her seat and flopping down, wrapping her blanket around her tightly and scooting over so that she could cling to Ivor's arm (the potionologist blinked at her several times in surprise). "I REFUSE."

"Why n-?"

Harper cut Em off, still looking- and sounding- freaked out, although her voice had dropped from that loud volume to a more normal volume. Now that it was at a normal volume, though, her voice was trembling a bit. "Because when I was in the power room, when the power for the screen came back on, I realized I could hear footsteps and breathing."

"You sure it wasn't- like, footsteps from upstairs or something?" Dan suggested, tentatively.

Olivia, Ellegaard, and Harper shared a look.

"... what? Did I miss something?" Dan asked, brow furrowing in confusion. He wasn't the only one to look a bit puzzled by this.

"... the power room is on the floor above this one. Don't ask why; it's not great design. But besides that, everyone currently in this house is in this room. Besides, the upper floors are more sound-insulated than the lower ones." Harper shook her head. "Unless there was someone in that room with me, I shouldn't have been able to hear footsteps."

There was a very long, very silent pause at this, before Isa picked up the remote. "Perhaps... er... perhaps we should investigate after the episode?" she asked, meekly.

"Let's have a look around the place in the morning. Maybe..." Gabriel trailed off, unsure what to say. 'Maybe' what? It was some sort of prank? It was just their imaginations?

Maybe the place was haunted or something?

When nobody objected, Isa pressed the play button.

Onscreen, several people yelped in shock from the darkness.

"What now?!" Lukas yelped, shocked.

The sound of something disengaging sounded.

"Did you hear th-?"

The sound of something firing sounded, and TorqueDawg let out a loud yell that made an already-antsy Real-Jesse yelp. "Oof! Ow! OW!"

"TorqueDawg?!" Stampy exclaimed, eyes widening in shock.

Jesse's onscreen eyes darted back in forth, looking around in a bit of panic.

"What was that?!" Petra shouted, sounding a bit frightened.

Ivor yelped. "Something touched my foot! Who touched my foot?!"

Jesse shifted a bit, moving around, eyes roaming back and forth as the owners presumably moved around, although Petra was just looking about frantically.

"What's going on with the lights?!" Lukas called out, his cyan eyes darting everywhere worriedly.

"The lights blew out there, too..." Sparklez frowned. "But, there isn't a thunderstorm going on outside on their end...?"

"What in the name of Notch is going on?!" Jesse shouted over all the yelling. "TorqueDawg? TORQUEDAWG?!"

With another sudden thud, all the lights suddenly switched back on, making Jesse, Petra, and Lukas- the three currently onscreen- flinch as their eyes adjusted back to the light.

The screen switched to show wisps of green smoke curling into the air, someone lying on the floor with arrows embedded in them.

Olivia's eyes widened as she realized something, and she gagged a bit. "Oh Notch no."

As Jesse opened her eyes again, they widened, her mouth falling open as she gasped. The others gasped as well, a few of them starting back.

The screen switched again to show TorqueDawg lying on the ground, several arrows embedded in his chest, arms, and legs. One had hit him right in the throat, as well, presumably having killed the man almost instantly.

Maya let out a terrified shriek and toppled off the couch, Real-Jesse yelped in fright, and Jace gagged.

"Sh*t, things just got real!" Gill exclaimed, eyes wide.

Before anyone could say anything, TorqueDawg exploded into a puff of smoke, leaving the arrows and other various items lying on the floor as he disappeared from sight. Sparklez gasped. "TorqueDawg...?" he whispered, before nearly shrieking, "TorqueDawg?!" in panic.

The spider hybrid took in a deep breath, hands trembling slightly as she exhaled again. "Okay- what the heck just happened."

Sparklez was flailing his arms in a huge panic. "All those arrows! His inventory! Everywhere!" he was babbling almost incoherently. "How did that- who- what-?! One minute he's alive, the next-?!" and he flung his hands over his face.

"I can... kinda relate with why he's panicking," Stampy mumbled, scratching his cheek and speaking barely loud enough for Dan to hear. The green-haired boy (his hair was changing!) nodded.

Jesse looked around at her friends. "Alright, I know that was a bit fast- but I mean what the hell just happened? Did anyone see?" she asked, voice rising a bit anxiously.

Petra shook her head, frowning. "I mean, now that I'm a Blaze, I have fairly decent night vision, but..."

"Yeah- you couldn't see anything, either?" Jesse finished for the redhead, who nodded back. "What about you, Lukas?"

The blonde shivered a bit, shaking his head. "Same as you guys. It's... it's the first time I've been a bit nervous about the dark since- since we..." his ears quivered a bit as he trailed off.

Jesse crossed her arms and tilted her head back thoughtfully with a sigh- and then her breath caught in her throat as she started. "Oh..." The screen slowly travelled from her eyes and revolved to show...

A dispenser embedded in the ceiling.

"Wait- that was a trap?!" Gill exclaimed, eyes widening.

"Did someone set a trap for that brah?!" Nell wondered, her own blue eyes widening almost owlishly.

"Hello, little dispenser. I think we know what you dispense now."

Lukas blinked at Jesse, before following her gaze. His eyes widened, tail suddenly bushing out so much that it looked like a cactus as he scrambled back a step. "Oh my god."

Jesse crouched, frowning at the inventory on the floor, her hands trembling as she looked over the stuff on the floor, obviously trying to get a grip on herself. "Let's- let's see if we can figure anything out here." She stared intently at the inventory, her lips twisting together a bit. "Um, gunpowder, redstone dust, leather... pants... er, looks pretty much like one would expect, I guess."

"Hasn't he been bragging about some 'incredible treasure', though?" Stacy wondered, crossing her arms curiously.

"Has he really?" Jesse asked, looking over at Stacy with a surprised look.

Just as Jesse finished her sentence onscreen, there was a sudden, loud mechanical thumping sound, and the spider hybrid quickly stepped back in time as a section of floor holding the contents of the inventory sank into the ground... before dropping entirely, leaving an empty, gaping hole in the floor.

Jesse blinked at the hole, before carefully shifting forward and staring down into the hole. Seeing nothing of interest, she craned her head back to stare at the dispenser. "Hmm, looks like it's a matching set with that dispenser up there..." she mumbled, eyes narrowing.

Petra frowned, looking a bit puzzled by that. "But... you saw his stuff. He didn't really have anything worth stealing..."

Jesse glanced from Petra to the floor, before prying one of the arrows out of the ground and staring at it intently. "Something's... off about this arrow." And indeed, as she tilted it slightly, the tip of it flashed a sickly green.

"Oh yeah. Good eye, Jesse," and Lukas patted her on the head.

She beamed.

Jesse stood up, still peering at the arrow, before looking at Ivor. "Ivor, you know potions and enchantments better than the rest of us combined."

Real-Ivor looked very pleased with the compliment.

"What do you make of it?"

Onscreen-Ivor reached out and took the arrow from her hand, examining it carefully. His eyes narrowed, before he held the arrow tip close to his nose and gave an experimental sniff. After a few seconds, he extended his tongue and touched the very tip of the arrow to his tongue.

Immediately he turned his head to the side and spit it out, rapidly. "Ah. Smell and taste is almost synonymous with Potion of Poison, although it's nowhere as near as strong as the ones I can make with your venom," he added, glancing up at Jesse as he recovered from it, grimacing a bit.

"Why the heck would you try tasting it?!" Ellegaard exclaimed, looking 'round at Ivor with an incredulous look on her face. "Wouldn't just smelling it give you a good enough idea?"

Ivor shook his head and shrugged a bit. "It's... ah... some potions, since they're usually made with a base of 'Awkward' Potions, tend to smell rather similar, although the tastes are definitely different."

"Almost synonymous... why only 'almost'?" Em wondered.

Real-Ivor shrugged. "It was probably slightly off. Maybe the maker of the arrow had to mix something extra with the potion to get it to stick to the arrow tip?"

"Yeah, you usually need to add a bit of extra Nether wart to it to get it to stay on for a long time," Lizzie nodded to the question.

"Oh, you pipsqueaks know what this is?" Slab asked, blinking a bit at the YouTuber's couch.

"Oh."

Everyone looked back at the screen to see Sparklez nervously approaching the two of them, eyes flicking from the hybrids to the arrow with the green tip, "I-is that a tipped arrow? I've heard of those. They're still... they're still pretty new."

Jesse blinked. "Wait wait wait. Back up. What did you say this is?" she asked, quirking one eyebrow in confusion.

"Tipped arrows... potions mixed with arrows," Real-Ivor muttered, leaning his chin on his hand. "The possibilities are... fascinating." His eyes narrowed thoughtfully.

"Tipped arrows?" Sparklez repeated. "Sure. Could've sworn I saw someone doing a tutorial on how to make those not too long ago..."

Ivor handed the arrow back to Jesse with a slight shrug, before Sparklez huffed. "But my nerves are way too shot to remember who right now!"

"Hello?" The door pushed open, and LIZZIE walked into the room. "Everything okay in- whoa! What's with the- the- the..." her eyes widened a bit, and she took a step backwards nervously, her sentence trailing off.

There was a long silence, where the hybrids were all staring at Lizzie and Lizzie was staring back. Sparklez was glancing from the people already there to Lizzie, back to the hybrids, then back to Lizzie again. Petra finally lifted her hand a bit and gave a tiny, rather sheepish wave. "Erm... hi."

Lizzie's eyes flickered to Sparklez immediately, a slightly anxious look on her face. "Sparklez, what's going on?" she asked immediately.

Sparklez reached up and rubbed his head slowly and awkwardly. "I, uh... was just about to get everyone together to tell them all at once." With that, he walked past her, Lizzie shifting aside to let him pass and presumably get everyone else together.

Lizzie blinked, watching him leave. "Uh... o-okay...?" She turned back to keep looking at the hybrids, brow furrowing as she watched them for a moment- before her eyes widened. "Hang on a minute... it's you! I- recognize you!" she exclaimed.

Every single member of the audience slowly blinked at that.

"Huh?" Petra finally asked.

"That's... not possible?" Lukas said, although the way he stated it sounded more like a question.

"Uh... yes. What?" Ivor asked flatly, putting his hands on his hips.

Jesse blinked at Lizzie a bit, looking down at her extra arms. Then at her friends, Petra still having Blaze Rods hovering around her, and Lukas's ocelot ears and tail in plain sight. Before turning back to Lizzie with a slightly-raised eyebrow. "'Recognize us'? Um... how?" she asked, slowly.

Lizzie waved a bit towards herself. "I'll, um, I'll show you," she said, sounding slightly nervous. "Follow me." And with that she turned around and began walking out of the kitchen.

The four of them all exchanged silent looks, before Petra said, "Um... okay." And the four of them began trotting after Lizzie.

"How would you recognize us? I... don't think you recognized us here?" Jesse asked, twisting around to get a good look at Lizzie.

Lizzie frowned. "No, definitely not... before we got teleported here, I had no idea who you guys were."

"Then..." Jesse frowned. "That's not possible, is it?"

Axel shrugged, looking a little bewildered. "I... guess you guys will find out?" He leaned on his elbow with a slight frown, before it turned into a slight smirk. "Hey, Jesse?"

The black-haired girl blinked her green eyes in his direction. "Yeah?"

"I'm holding this against you for saying that nothing that interesting was going to happen while you guys were gone."

Jesse blinked at Axel a few times- before her eyes widened.

A few seconds later, she turned around and gently banged her head against the coffee table as Jace started giggling. "Oh yeah... she did say that, didn't she?"

"I think it's clear that Jesse does NOT have prophetic powers," Petra joked, grinning at Jesse.

Lukas grinned a bit. "Haha, guess not."

Jesse kept her head on the coffee table for a few more seconds. "... y'know, I heard a joke about amnesia, but I forgot how it goes."

Lukas paled, his grin falling off his face. "Oh no."

"Lukas, if I had a dollar for every time I thought of you, I'd only have a dollar. Y'know why?"

"Jesse-"

"Because you're always on my mind."

Lukas's next protest caught in his throat as Jesse slowly turned around to face him, with a purely deadpan look on his face. He could feel a hot red blush forming on his face. "J-J-J-?"

"Lukas, if you were a pirate, would you rather have a parrot or a monkey?"

Lukas blinked at the sudden subject change. "Uh- I dunno, a parrot?"

"Okay. Would it-" Jesse shrugged off the blanket for now, twisting around and placing her hand on his right shoulder with her left hand. "- be on this shoulder?" She then let her arm snake over his back so that it was resting around him. "Or this one?"

If Lukas had been red before, he was now positively maroon in the face. "J-J-?"

"Y'know, I thought happiness started with an 'h', so I'm a little confused as to why mine starts with 'u'."

He was now a fire-engine.

"When Notch made you, he was just showing off."

Lukas was now so red that he was practically giving off steam.

"If nothing lasts forever, will you be my nothing?"

"J-J-J-Jesse-"

"Ya know, we never stop tasting our own tongues. Wanna taste mine for a change?"

"Y-y-yo-"

"Do you wanna know how to install an attractive face? Too bad; you can't install software already on the device."

Lukas was a hot, stuttering red mess at this point.

"Y'know, I would take you to an art museum and kiss you, but they said not to touch the masterpieces."

Lukas stuttered for a few more seconds, before falling over backwards with a soft thump.

Jace leaned back to get a good look at his face, before looking at Jesse with a slightly accusing look on his face. "You broke him."

"You lot were embarrassing me. The one I know the most is Lukas." Jesse gently patted Lukas on the stomach, which was the only place she could currently reach. "Therefore, the only one I could truly embarrass back was Lukas."

Petra gave Jesse an appraising smile, eyebrow going up a bit. "... you are evil."

"Thank you, thank you."


A/N: Never mess with Jesse.

She will either weave the most elaborate pun-web you've ever seen, or flirt with you until you break.

Huh, I guess that's what she meant when she said 'Mess with my friends and I will break you.' xD She'll literally pun/flirt with you until you break. xD xD xD

Huh. Never knew Jesse knew so many pick-up lines. xD

So there WAS some horror in this chapter...

But then we got this. xD

Maybe there'll be more later on. Who knows?

RQTC: So right now I have two plans for how Hybrid could go. I could just make Hybrid longer to include Season 2, or I could make a separate sequel that would also mix with Recode Reality. I'm honestly leaning towards the first option, but what would you guys prefer?

Also.

PLEASE DON'T JUST ANSWER THE RQTC AND TELL ME IF YOU LIKED THE CHAPTER AS WELL xD

LunarStarsMoons: Yep xD / Same here :3 / Do you like all the pick-up lines in this?

RapidSammi: (laughing) I believe the original term used was a 'recalcitrant' llama. 'Recalcitrant' basically means very badly behaved. xD / Hehehe xD

pensuka: I not tellin' x3

AquaK13: I know, right? / Yeah, kinda sad :/ / Hehehehe xD / (laughs) / (hums~) / Hahahahaha xD / She is, though. xD / x3 Nah, long reviews are lit. / Yeah, I need to make fanart soon xD

sailor . mikuchan: ? Uh, what are we talkin' about rn? / New is pretty awesome x3

LegoGirl794: OMG. That would be awesome.

homeworkoverload: For now you must build up our machine you die tonight! / Lol yep. / 1. Nahhhh is cool. / 2. It's not. / 3. Cool! / 4. Ah, I see. / 5. Pffft lol xD / 6. Hehe xD / 7. (laughs) / 9. Yes, I noticed.

Rabbits rule: I'm not taking that bet. xD

the indecisive bird: Sure; what do ya need me to do? / (laughs) It's fine. / I hope it will x3

TheRealRedGaming: (coughs) If I decide to write Hybrid the way I might be changing it, it actually might happen...

Emily The Avenger: Lol I was shocked too

BeliTheGhoti0304: Lol / I refuse to spoil myself before I can play it. NO. / (laughs) It's all here.

J.M.M.: No, I haven't.

Jack638: Yeah, THAT'S how precious I find this game. / Ooh that'd be cool.

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: Lol what did you think about all this then? xD

Kaos Ruin: We'll see.

InsaneAcrobat: Lol xD / Maybe :3 / I have relatively high expectations for this season. / x3

RWBYSTRQ: Hahaha omg I'm laughing hysterically over here

That's all for this chappie! Bai!

x.X. A.L. X.x