The screen switched to show the mansion silhouetted against the sky filled with sunrise-illuminated clouds, before panning down to show zombies keeling over and the main, iron doors flying open.

It then switched again to show Jesse, Ivor, Lukas, and the others walking out onto the steps, Ivor letting out a happy sigh. "Ah... I've never been so happy to smell rotting flesh!" he exclaimed, the screen zooming out again to show more zombies falling forward and dying, their dying poofs and moans accompanying the sound fire crackling.

"That's a statement I never thought I'd hear from Ivor," Gabriel grinned.

"That's a statement I never thought I'd hear from anybody," Soren replied, but he too was smiling rather broadly.

Ivor was too busy sitting back a little bit and taking a little breather to really snap back at them, though he did give them a half-hearted, irritated look before returning his attention to the screen.

Onscreen, Lukas visibly gagged, clamping his hands over his nose tightly. "Speak for yourself..." he muttered, sounding rather nasal now as he continued to make little gagging sounds.

"Oh yeah..." Jace reached over and patted a wincing Lukas, "I forgot how strong his sense of smell is in that world."

"Yeah, that does NOT look like fun."

"No, really?"

"Yeah, that is..." Jesse winced at that, pinching her own nose shut as well. "Yikes, that is pretty gross."

They all turned back to look as Lizzie said, sounding rather sad as she approached them with Stacy and Stampy flanking her sides, "I just feel bad that Sparklez isn't here to smell it."

"Yeah, we'll miss you a lot, Jordan," Lizzie said sadly, reaching out and squeezing the boy's shoulder slightly. Sparklez gave Lizzie a sad little smile.

"It's okay, Lizzie. I'm just glad that no one else got hurt after I did."

"I don't think that would've been the case if Jesse hadn't been there," Dan said, shooting Jesse a grateful look.

"Yes, she really saved us back there," Stampy agreed, giving Jesse a smile that she cheerfully returned.

"Who's Jordan?" Mevia wondered, looking over at the group of YouTubers blankly.

Sparklez stared at Mevia blankly for a few seconds, before snapping his fingers in realization. "Oh- that's my real name. I just usually go by Sparklez 'cause that's how most people know me."

"Why 'Captain Sparklez' then?" Soren wondered.

"Well, who'd forget 'Captain Sparklez'?" Sparklez pointed out.

"Fair point."

"... and TorqueDawg and Cassie, I guess," Lizzie added, a bit reluctantly.

Real-Cassie winced a bit, but said nothing as she rubbed her arm rather awkwardly.

Onscreen, Stampy frowned, looking rather sad now. "Aw, that's a good point..." he said softly, Stacy squeezing her eyes shut and blinking tears out of her eyes as she looked down at her feet. Dan looked away and rubbed his arm awkwardly, a sadder look coming over his face.

"Yeahh, sorry to be a downer," Lizzie said, softly. "Just can't stop thinking about it."

"I'm sorry," Jesse said simply, "I tried my hardest, but... there was nothing we could do."

Stampy waved his hands quickly in surrender. "Oh, we all know that, Jesse. It's not your fault."

Dan perked up a bit, putting his hands on his hips. "Yeah, lucky for us that portal brought you here," he said with a nod.

"Speaking of which," Ivor said calmly, coming up behind Jesse and making her look over at him with a mild look, "I have no idea how to begin finding our exit portal."

Jesse's face turned into a blank, thoughtful one, and she started walking away a bit, crossing her arms thoughtfully, as Stampy said with his hands on his hips, thoughtfully, "Well, Cassie said it was 'right under her nose', right?"

"That's true," Jesse hummed, looking around the mansion, "maybe it's nearby..." She turned around... and then blinked in surprise.

The screen switched to show, in the distance, near the forest, the portal.

"Oh." Otto blinked, a frown creasing his face. "That's... a little too easy, is it not?"

"Yeah... is the portal booby trapped?" Jesse asked, looking over at Cassie.

Cassie was silent for a moment, before realizing there wasn't really much point at this point. "Yes... that, and it's not actually the real portal, either," she said at last.

"Oh- you can create fake portals?" Harper blinked over at Cassie.

"Yeah; you just have to have the 'wrong' material but have it look really similar and the portal won't work- since besides the Nether and the End, you can't have portals directly to other worlds- you can only use it to head back to the portal network instead," Cassie responded, looking over at Harper and wiping her face quickly. She thought about it for a second and then added, "Or, well, just blatantly wrong material. Either way works."

Harper fell quiet, face going slightly blank. "... huh."

Ivor glanced at her, but she didn't expand on it.

The screen switched to show, in sharper relief, the golden portal that looked a bit like a skull with two eyes and a big mouth over a bridge with some Sea Lantern lamplights lighting it up, along with a couple of torches.

"Hey!" Jesse exclaimed with a little laugh as she descended the stairs, staring at it, "whaddaya know, there it is!"

"A fabulous coincidence!" Ivor exclaimed, grinning a bit in relief.

"They don't think it's suspicious at all?" Hadrian mumbled, raising his eyebrow at the group onscreen.

"In our defense, we watched two people get murdered and a third one 'die' right in front of our eyes. We're probably a little wound up and just trying to get the heck out of there," Lukas responded, eyes still fixed on the screen.

"... good point."

"So..." Stacy, Lizzie, Dan, and Stampy strolled away a few steps so that they were all standing in a small group. "I guess this is goodbye, then, huh."

"Oh... yeah." Stampy gave the group on the floor a cheerful grin. "I bet we're sure gonna miss you guys!"

"Yeah, it was... well, not fun, but-" Jesse grinned as Lizzie rubbed her head awkwardly. "It was definitely nice to meet you!"

"Yeah, totally," Petra said, giving them a grin.

"It's... it's not really a goodbye," Jesse said, after a moment, tilting her head to the side, "it's more like a... see you later."

The YouTubers all grinned as they remembered that line from the fourth episode.

Lukas chuckled and nodded at the statement. "Yeah. Just let us know if you ever accidentally find yourselves in OUR world, haha."

"Well, I mean, that's a nice offer and all..." Dan trailed off, wincing a bit awkwardly, as Lizzie picked up a second later, "but I don't think we'll be portal-HOPPING without a portal key." Behind them, Stampy's smile dropped off of his face, and he anxiously started tapping his lip.

"Oh, well... I think Stampy's got you covered there," Jesse said, giving Stampy a coaxing look.

Lizzie and Dan both looked a little bewildered at that. "What do you mean?" Dan asked, turning to stare at Stampy in bewilderment.

Stampy fidgeted for a few seconds longer, before reaching into his pockets and pulling out the flint and steel anxiously.

Dan and Lizzie's eyes widened, and they both looked at each other in shock, before Lizzie whipped around to glare at Stampy, throwing her hands into the air. "You stole the portal key from Dan?!" she exclaimed.

"You had it the whole time?!" Dan nearly cut her off, looking extremely upset about this.

Stampy winced as he moved away a bit. "It was just meant to be a prank, a harmless prank, and I am so sorry, so very very sorry," he apologized profusely.

"Awww, it's okay Stamp," Dan said, pulling Stampy closer to him in a one-armed hug. Only, he misjudged the distance, and as he tugged Stampy over Stampy lost his balance somewhat and Dan's lips made contact with Stampy's cheek in a loud, somewhat sloppy kiss.

Lizzie's eyes lit up as she exchanged a grin with Stacy, and Sparklez grinned, his teeth actually showing in the grin, as Stampy attempted to launch himself backwards babbling out an endless series of apologies. "I- I am so sorry, so sorry, so very, very, very, VERY sorry-!" he spluttered, cheeks flushing a hot red. Not that he was the only one; Dan's pink face was only rivaled by his hair right now.

Nell was squealing under her breath, hands clasped to her mouth, while Jesse and Lukas were grinning broadly at them. "Aw, what are you sorry for? That was cute," Jesse said mildly.

Their faces- Dan and Stampy's- went even redder.

"Yeah, come on, it's Stampy," Stacy replied, patting Lizzie on the back, "you know he would never actually try to hurt anyone."

"Aw, c'mon, lay off Stampy," Jesse said mildly, giving a little shrug, "like he said, it was just a prank."

"A prank that went pretty badly, if you ask me," Dan grumbled, giving his Stampy a slightly annoyed look (Stampy shrank back a bit from the glare).

Lizzie let out a long sigh, tilting her head to one side tiredly. "Besides... after all this drama, I might be done with flint and steel and portals, anyway."

"Well, like Lukas said," Petra said lightly, giving them a big grin, "if you ever change your mind, you're totally welcome in our world."

"Yeah!" Jesse said cheerfully to that, shrugging a bit, "you can share the flint and steel- make, like, your own Order of the Stone or whatever!"

"There's going to be quite a lot of Order of the Stones running around by the time this is over, huh?" Magnus mumbled to Ellegaard. The redstone engineer just couldn't help but laugh at that.

Dan tilted his head thoughtfully, before giving a little nod. "Noted."

"Yeah, I guess I could live with that," Lizzie said, crossing her arms and giving a cheerful little nod at that.

"Yes, that's a wonderful idea!" Stampy agreed to the idea, rather eagerly.

There was a short pause, where the two groups of four were just looking at each other somewhat awkwradly, before Stacy said, "Uh, well... I'm not great at goodbyes, so... I'm actually going to just start walking home?" She started backing away, before turning around and lifting her arm in a friendly wave. "Thanks for everything!"

The group watched her go, before Lizzie looked back at them and gave them a cheerful smile. "Me too. Bye you guys!" She lifted her own arm in a wave, grinning at them, before following Stacy away.

"Yeah, me too," Dan agreed, turning and following Lizzie with a cheerful parting wave, "travel safe you guys!"

Stacy watched them go, before slipping the flint and steel back into his pocket and flailing his arm in a wave. "Byeeeeeee!" he told them in a sing-songy way, before running off behind them, flailing his arms.

Several members of the audience chuckled a bit at that.

"I'm sure we'll miss you guys," Jesse told them cheerfully, making all of the YouTubers grin at her. "You've been so wonderful to... well, do stuff with."

"No problem," Sparklez said, adjusting his glasses slightly with a smile.

The onscreen group waved goodbye, Ivor chuckling and shaking his head slightly. "What a strange, strange bunch of individuals," he said, but he said in a mild voice- perhaps even a little fond, before they all started walking towards the portal.

"Cassie Whatshername was talking about being trapped here... from another world," Ivor said, as they continued walking towards the portal. "What if she was one of the Old Builders?"

A few groans from a few of the occupants in the room, and a few more subtle winces.

"Portal keys, other worlds... it all add ups, I guess," Petra murmured, thoughtfully.

"That's too bad if it is true..." Jesse sighed, rubbing her head slightly, "seeing as she turned out to be, y'know, the White Pumpkin and all."

"Yes..." Ivor's face fell a little bit at that as well as he realized the truth in that statement. "Hadn't thought about that."

Petra finally sighed a bit herself as they reached the portal. "I just can't believe that we finally met someone who might be an Old Builder... and she's a pumpkin-wearing serial killer. Typical."

Real-Jesse got a small fit of the giggles.

Isa frowned a bit at that. What about her?

"Well, here we are," Ivor said, putting his hands on his hips almost cheerfully. "Would you care to do the honors, Jesse?"

Jesse grinned back, the spider hybrid's lower arms reaching into her pockets and pulling out the flint and steel, the blue glow illuminating her face slightly.

"Here we go," Aiden muttered, Cassie looking over at him. To her surprise, though, he didn't look foreboding or ominous- he actually looked a bit...

Interested.

Huh.

She gave him a weak little smile, experimentally.

He returned it.

Jesse clicked the flint and steel together, the column of blue fire shooting into the air... before dying back down, Jesse simply looking at the portal with confusion now. "... huh?" she said, after a moment of surprise.

She turned back around a second later, flint and steel still in her hands, eyes narrowing in a suspicious way. "That's... weird..."

The screen suddenly switched to show the top of the portal... which Winslow poked his head over with a meow. Jesse's eyes widened, and she looked around and up. Winslow was regarding them, still meowing away. "Winslow?" Jesse asked, sounding somewhat bewildered.

"That's strange..." the ground suddenly started rumbling as the shot switched to show the group from Winslow's perspective, and the blocks beneath them suddenly dropped out, all of them letting out shocked yells as they dropped down- and the flint and steel flew out of Jesse's hands, the screen slowing down, the spider hybrid's eyes wide as she dropped down the chute.

"Oh crap!" Axel yelled, leaning forward so much he nearly clonked Olivia's head on the coffee table.

The screen sped out as it slowly zoomed out from the portal, the flint and steel dropping into the hole after them. Winslow let out another meow, getting up, before mewing and hopping down the hole after them.

The screen blacked out.

Aiden suddenly felt chills run up his back, and it had absolutely nothing to do with what was about to happen.

Well, no, it did have something to do with what was about to happen, but it wasn't the main reason. Not by a long shot.

He could feel something grabbing his ankle.


A/N: Very, VERY short chapter. You can tell that this wasn't in the original Hybrid. Sorry. There's just not much I can really do for reactions.

So shit's gonna go down next chapter, but it's gonna be happening both IN REAL LIFE and onscreen.

It's gonna be a fun chapter~

Answer to the previous question was September 3rd. I hope you didn't cheat and look at the story stats BEFORE YOU GUESSED, seeing as I specifically asked you not to. :3

RQTC: What do you think is holding Aiden's ankle?

LunarStarsMoons: Uh, sure :3 / Nope, but close :3

Mason: (laughs) / (laUGHS) / ... well, correct. xD / RIGHT?!

giriri: Did you cheat and look at the story stats before guessing, or did you memorize the dates? Because considering I don't remember... xD

sailor . mikuchan: No spoilers.

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMer101: x3 True. / (laughs)

RapidSammi: Sure thing! Actually, I can do better than that. xD / (grins~) / (nods) / I see.

LegoGirl794: That has nothing to do with the chapter, but thank you! I wish the same to you!

NoItsBecky: Correct on the second one! / No spoilers x3 / Yep! / ... trust me I have no idea xD

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