The screen faded back in to the portal hallway, slowly going down...

Before suddenly Jesse lunged out of the same dark blue portal from earlier, a glass bowl on her head as she shot back to her feet, slipping and sliding a bit on the wet floor and dancing to a slightly-less-wet spot of the floor.

The whole audience blinked a bit.

"Well... that was unexpected," Sparklez said, adjusting his sunglasses.

"Understatement of the day," Hadrian muttered, wincing a bit when Otto elbowed him in the ribs again.

Lukas followed a second later, crashing ungracefully into the floor as his tail flipped into the air and slapped him on the head. Petra whipped out of the portal, skidding to the side to avoid tripping on Lukas as he quickly scrambled out of the way, while Cassie slipped, tripped, and nearly did a faceplant right on the floor, Winslow letting out a loud meow as he nearly got squashed.

Cassie winced apologetically, stroking Winslow on the head as Reuben re-situated himself back between Jace and Jesse.

The four soaking-wet teenagers looked at each other silently, gaping at one another with their mouths open. Before any of them could say anything, though, a literal wall of water came exploding out of the portal, sending a screaming Ivor straight into a different, duller blue portal right on the other side of the hallway.

"That is a bit unfortunate," Gabriel said, wincing sympathetically.

Onscreen-Jesse tore off the helmet, presumably for breathing purposes seeing as she'd been soaking wet, tossed it onto the floor, and raced after Ivor before it even hit the ground, dropping to all eights and shooting straight into the portal. Lukas yanked his off as he ran after her, Cassie tugging hers off (and nearly yanking Winslow off with her, since he'd been in the class bowl with her) and bolting after them.

Petra watched them go, before she let out a loud, aggravated groan and yanked off her own helmet, tossing it over her shoulder as she raced after the others. "Aggggh, not again!"

The screen did an abrupt swish pan to show Ivor, Lukas, Petra, and Cassie talking quietly in the hallway, before the sound of someone emerging from a portal sounded, and they looked around.

Jesse came running out of a portal, flailing all of her arms in a panic as she ran around in a few circles, desperately shaking her head.

This may have been due to the fact that there was a squid on her head. It wasn't a normal squid, either. It was a little, puffy blue one sitting smack on Jesse's head and smiling cheerfully.

Gill snorted a little bit at that. "You look ridiculous."

"You're mean," and Jesse pouted a little at Gill.

"Aw, I dunno, I think you look really cute with that squid on your head," and Lukas gave the black-haired girl a little kiss on the cheek, and immediately her gaze softened into a smile as she leaned into Lukas a bit.

"Get it off! Get it off!" she shouted, before she accidentally charged straight into another portal.

"Good job, Jesse," and Petra gently punched Jesse on the shoulder.

Jesse winced.

Lukas patted Jesse on the back sympathetically.

Another person burst out of the portal Jesse had just emerged from, a person with fluffy reddish-brown hair and a raincoat, dashing straight into the portal Jesse had just run into. "Heyyyy! Limooooo get back here!"

Ivor laughed before hustling after her, Lukas snickering a bit as well before he dashed in. Cassie chuckled a bit as she raced after the two, and Petra just facepalmed in a tired way before following them, racing into the portal after the lot of them.

Another swish pan, and Jesse came bolting out of an olive green portal. Petra raced out after her before accidentally colliding straight into Jesse, sending the spider hybrid pitching forward onto the floor with a pained little grunt before Petra body-slammed her back into the floor.

"What are you dudes even running from?" Nell asked, curiously.

Cassie bolted out of the portal herself, Winslow perched on her head, before she tripped over both Petra and Jesse, somehow did a little somersault over them, and landed flat on her face. Winslow let out a pained yowl.

Everyone winced sympathetically at that. Even Winslow.

Ivor and Lukas came sprinting out of the portal next as if the Ender Dragon was right on their tails (literally for Lukas), bats flooding out of the portal in a solid cloud.

"Oh. I guess that's what you dudes are running from."

"Baaaaaaaaaaats!" Lukas yelled, ears flattening against his head, as Jesse wormed out from beneath Petra and shot down the hallway after Winslow, who'd apparently just decided to run away from the cloud of bats. Petra was throwing random firebolts up into the cloud and roasting a few in midair, while Cassie was just flailing her arms wildly to keep them off her head. Ivor was just running around in little circles.

"Why does Gotham have so many freaking bats?!" Ivor snapped as he dove out of the way of a bat that attempted to divebomb him. "They even have a freaking BatMAN, for goodness' sake!"

"And a Batmobile, and a Bat-signal, and a Bat-Cave..."

"That is, um," Ellegaard winced, "that is a lot of bats."

Magnus gently squeezed her shoulders in a sympathetic way.

"Well, but bats are kinda cute sometimes, aren't they?" Jesse asked, blinking around at the other members of the audience.

"Once you get them in groups that are more than one or two," Maya said, rubbing her temple a bit as if there was a bad memory involved in this, "they stop being cute and start being really annoying."

"... ah."

Another swish pan as Jesse trotted out of a hot-pink portal with a slightly annoyed look on her face. Petra and Ivor also came out, Petra just looking extremely frustrated while Ivor looked almost amused. Cassie emerged, looking distinctly scratched up and a little disgruntled as Winslow perched on a now-rather-lopsided beanie, hissing furiously at something.

Everyone winced a little at that. "I guess Winslow doesn't like portal travelling too much?" Aiden said, slowly.

"Looks like."

"I see why this was a punishment now," Cassie remarked drily to Jesse.

Several members of the audience chuckled at this.

Jesse turned around to look at Cassie and respond, before blinking. After a moment, she rolled her eyes and walked back over-

To a guy wearing a top hat and looking very much like a proper English gentleman. "Er... terribly sorry, but I believe I may be lost... do you mind pointing us in the right direction?"

Jesse gently pushed him back into the portal (I said gently) and fished around with one arm, groping until she found something, and she tugged Lukas through the portal, Lukas blinking rapidly in complete confusion.

"What just happened?" he asked, sounding and looking extremely disoriented.

Petra let out a loud, frustrated, "Rrrrrrgh!", sparks shooting off of the Blaze hybrid in an angry fashion, before she punched the wall next to the portal with a frustrated growl.

A little gold coin came springing out of the spot she'd just punched, landing right in her open palm. Petra blinked at it, before looking up at the others with a bewildered look.

Cassie gently pushed Winslow onto her shoulder, pulled off her beanie, and then upended it. Dozens of the little gold coins came pouring out of her hat and sprayed onto the ground with a metallic rush.

A little 'text box' sort of thing popped up, saying "You have 158 hint coins!"

The group all looked at the hint coins on the floor, before up at Cassie. "Cassie-"

"In my defense, those puzzles were really hard."

The screen did another swish pan to show Jesse, Lukas, Petra, and Cassie trying to pick her way through an ocean of sheep.

The entire audience blinked again.

"How in the world did so much sheep get into a single hallway?" Reginald wondered, staring at in bemusement.

"I'm betting that in some random worlds, there are just now sheep that are just roaming around," Mevia mumbled. However, due to her habit of announcing for the games, her mumble came out at speaking level. Jesse giggled a bit, covering her mouth.

"I'm not taking that bet; I think you're right."

Mevia blinked, before looking oddly pleased about the comment.

Onscreen, Lukas tried gently shoving a sheep out of the way, before realizing he'd gotten his claws stuck in the wool and starting to try to detangle himself with no luck. Petra let out a ticked-off sigh, Ivor bursting up through a crowd of sheep nearby and sending little bits of white fluff flying everwhere. He then spit out a mouthful of wool. "Ugh," he muttered, quietly.

The Order got a very coincidental fit of the giggles right about then.

Cassie shooed one sheep away, rescuing Winslow from another one, when she heard a baa and looked over to see the same sheep staring at her. "Quit it, sheep!"

The only response she got to that was the sheep head-butting her, knocking her onto the floor and making Petra snort a little in amusement.

Cassie gave Petra a joking glare, before standing back up and punching her on the shoulder, Petra wincing a little and sending Cassie a glare herself.

Real-Cassie and Petra exchanged sheepish grins as the rest of the audience snickered.

Gill pointed at a sheep in the far right corner. "I like the pink sheep with the mustache."

"... oh yeah. There is a pink sheep with a mustache in the far right corner," Olivia blinked. "Why does that even exist?"

Suddenly, there was the sound of something exiting the portal, and they all looked 'round- to see a giant egg riding a pig.

Onscreen-Jesse froze a little, eyes widening. The giant egg seemed very oblivious to the group of people standing around in the ocean of sheep, and instead decided to speak to the pig.

"George! Together we shall conquer this world! Now take me that way, George!" the egg said, in a rather annoying, high-pitched voice. One eye's iris was normal, while the other one was so tiny that it was almost obliterated by the pupil.

There was a short pause.

The pig started walking in the complete opposite direction.

"Okay, that way."

And they disappeared into a different portal.

It wasn't much of a surprise that most of the audience got a huge fit of the giggles right about then.

The screen abruptly swish-panned again, to show Jesse struggling to climb out of a portal that appeared to be on the floor. Her extra arms popped over the edge, and boosted her out of the portal as she got to her feet, standing up straight at last.

And then she did a flip with a yelp before slamming face-first into a wall, groaning a bit.

The screen suddenly turned to show that Jesse had been standing on the WALL, gravity having gotten turned about ninety degrees.

"Oh, wow." Jace winced a bit. "That looked... painful."

"How did gravity get turned around?" Maya wondered.

"Ow," Onscreen-Jesse said flatly, before crawling to her feet and stretching a bit, wincing in pain as she carefully stepped back. Slowly, Lukas, Petra, Cassie, and Ivor crawled out as well, Petra hovering out instead... and upon realizing that she was falling, doing a quick flip and catching herself nimbly, like a cat.

Real-Jesse stuck her tongue out at Petra. "Luckyyyyy," she whined a little bit.

Petra just chuckled a bit.

Onscreen, Petra was still scowling, muttering something about "that damn, glowing, one-eyed Dorito demon" under her breath. Lukas, Cassie and Ivor managed to get out, got to their feet...

And then gravity abruptly switched back to normal, and they all yelled, falling onto the floor. Cassie landed first, Winslow lying on her stomach, before Ivor landed right smack on top of her and Lukas crashing to the ground on top of Ivor, making Winslow suddenly yowl in pain twice and Cassie yelp.

Before delivering a fifty-word-long string of swear words.

The entire audience looked at the redhead admonishingly. Even Winslow did, and he'd ought to be used to it, due to Cassie being his owner.

She just shrugged at the looks. "I curse a lot, okay?"

"I can see that," Ivor replied drily.

The screen moved rapidly again, showing Petra marching out of a swirling white portal with water all over the floor, snowflakes melting to water in a matter of seconds. She did not look too pleased.

Lukas was shivering madly as he emerged, looking somewhat soaked, ears flattened and hair a little flat from dampness, tail whacking himself repeatedly and smacking off a lot of the snow. Winslow was perched on his shoulder and licking Lukas's face, looking distinctly not-wet. "Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold," he chattered, sounding as if he'd been thrown in a freezer. "I-I-Ice Lakes s-su-sucks."

"Yeah, I can't believe that zombie made you actually fall into the lake," Petra said, her expression softening.

"WHAT?!" Half of the audience exclaimed at that (Jesse tightened her arms around Lukas a bit).

"G-g-g-good t-th-thing C-C-Cassie k-k-k-knows how to s-swim," Lukas chattered, rubbing his arms furiously.

Everyone glanced at Real-Cassie, who looked surprised but... glad, really.

Jesse came through, looking a bit sluggish and almost loopy as she came out, but she still smacked Lukas.

And then she went on smacking him, dusting snow off of him. "How did you not see that z-zombie coming?!" she gently scolded, not actually looking that upset, "It was going so much slower already due to it being so cold!"

Lukas mumbled a rather incoherent "Sorry" as Ivor came out, grinning madly, before drawing back and launching a sphere of snow at Petra, smacking him on the back of the head. Petra growled audibly as she turned around, eyes scanning the group.

Cassie pointed at Ivor.

Jesse went on dusting snow off of herself, Lukas, and Cassie (the three of them being pretty much coated in the stuff right now) as Petra went chasing after Ivor with an annoyed yell, balls of flames in her hands as the potionologist fled in the other direction, cackling madly.

"Mature, Ivor. Very mature," Soren said, sounding amused.

Ivor scoffed, though he didn't really seem that annoyed. "Please. None of you four would know mature if it came up and slapped you silly."

He then paused. "... okay, except for Ellegaard and Gabriel, but not Soren or Magnus."

"Hey!" Soren and Magnus chorused indignantly, making Jesse grin and hide her smile a bit.

The screen swish-panned to show a tall portal made of netherrack, one corner of the thing lit on fire. The screen slowly zoomed in a bit... before zooming out rapidly as Jesse, Cassie, Lukas, Ivor, and Winslow burst out of it, ashes covering their clothing and a bit of their faces.

"Oh, wow!" Dan exclaimed. "That one looks crazy!"

"Yeah, no kidding!"

"That was crazy!" Jesse coughed, hacking out a good mouthful of soot. She started frantically gagging and coughing, trying to get it out of her mouth, as Petra strolled out, looking perfectly fine. Actually, she looked rather energetic right now.

"That wasn't too bad," she said casually.

"I so freaking hate you right now," Cassie grumbled in Petra's direction jokingly. Upon hearing that, Petra let out a bit of a laugh.

"You are not the only person to say that to me."

"Easy for you to say!" Onscreen-Cassie choked out, giving the Blaze hybrid a mock-glare. "You're basically someone who can walk through fire with no problem what-so-freaking-ever!"

"Why would there even be a fire world?" Jesse grumbled in agreement, spitting out another mouthful of ashes as Ivor shook his head vigorously, succeeding in scattering ashes all over Winslow.

Harper had been opening her mouth, presumably to answer Onscreen-Jesse's question, but had since abandoned that in favor of chuckling softly at what had just happened, Ivor giving her a sheepish smile.

The calico cat gave Ivor a rather disgruntled look onscreen before going over to Cassie, rubbing against her leg affectionately and making the redhead grin and bend down to pet him on the head.

Jesse looked down, before gasping suddenly. The screen switched to show that the seat of Lukas's pants was on fire, somehow missing his tail.

"Oh jeez!" Aiden exclaimed.

"Put it out. Put it out!" Clutch exclaimed.

Lukas started turning in circles upon hearing Jesse's gasp, trying to see what was going on there. Without thinking, Jesse bent down and rapidly patted the fire out, aided slightly by Lukas's frantically flicking tail as Lukas danced in place a bit, trying to put it out himself.

The narrator spoke up mildly. "Well, if you really wanted to smack that ass so much, this was a great excuse."

Jesse's face turned bright red, but she somehow straightened up wordlessly as Lukas let out a relieved sigh. "Thanks, Jesse," he told her.

"I know what you all are going to say, and before you say it... don't," Jesse said, warningly, her cheeks already turning a lovely shade of red. Lukas had taken an odd fascination to the ceiling, his own cheeks turning bright red, doing his best to ignore the giggles that they were getting from the others.

Jesse nodded and leaned back with a rather relieved look, giving the ocelot a thumbs up as he took out a brown journal and a quill and started scribbling in it, narrowing his blue-green eyes at the journal.

The group all blinked at him.

The real audience all blinked at him as well.

"... what is that?" Ellegaard asked at last.

Cassie's eyes narrowed as she kept squinting at it.

"I marked that one down as 'Fire World,'" Lukas said after a minute or so, shutting the book.

"Wow," Petra drawled sarcastically, "how did you come up with THAT gem of a name?"


A/N: I'm sorry it took me so long to post this chapter! xD Coming up with the references was annoying. But hey, anyone who can correctly tell me all of the references gets a little surprise for them~ :3

And Episode 7 has OFFICIALLY kicked off! :3

RQTC: What are all of the references... well, referring to? xD

Responses to reviewers!

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: No spoilers. :3

RapidSammi: Basically- she IS half spider, after all. This is basically the best way they could think of to deliver the DNA, in this version of Hybrid at least. / (grins) Yep.

giriri: I know. She's my friend on DeviantArt. xD

Emily The Avenger: (grins) / (laughs) / Awww. :3 You're so nice.

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the indecisive bird: (grins) / (chuckles) / True. xD / Then I'd love to upload 'em!

Toni42: I love her too haha xD / Yeah, true. / Also true, but this is my fanfic, so I get to decide their ages x3

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Jack: Haha that'd be cool xD / I only read like half a word and then stopped, it was so awful xD / x3 / Alright!

That should be all for now! Bai!

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