"Ah, Jesse?" Lukas squeaked, backing up a few steps as the red-eyed people marched up the steps and into the room, "what do we do here?"

"Leave! Run away!" Stacy exclaimed, flailing her arms wildly at the screen.

"Will those people let us leave?" Cassie asked, grimly.

Isa frowned. "Who knows? Besides... they can't exactly hear you."

"... oh yeah."

"They don't... look happy," Petra said warily, backing into the wall and pressing her back up against it as the group collectively moved backwards.

Cassie shot the Blaze hybrid a look. "They don't look anything."

"... agh, that's even creepier."

Jesse forced a smile that looked almost maniacal from how hard she was basically forcing it. (Which probably creeped the audience out a little bit.) "O-kay, time to go!" she chirped, in forced, overly cheerful voice.

"Good plan," Ivor deadpanned.

Jesse tried to move past the people gently, but the person in the front of the group shoved her back, making Jesse stagger rather violently as they nearly knocked her right off her feet. (The audience winced a little bit at that.) "Um... okay, looks like that plan might be a no-go," she said, sounding a bit shaky.

"You are not from this place," the group of five spoke in perfect sync, pointing at the other group in robotic, simultaneous motions.

"Okay, this just got creepier," Petra squeaked a bit, scrambling backwards in an attempt to avoid them.

Onscreen, Jesse took a deep breath, slowly taking a backwards step and swallowing nervously. "Um... yeah, I... guess we're... not?" she said, weakly.

Harper let out a loud gasp, making the whole audience look at her. "Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no no. You shouldn't have said that," she said, voice beginning to rise in both pitch and volume in panic. "You should not have said that!"

Real-Jesse was starting to look slightly pale. "Um... why not?" she asked, voice beginning to turn a bit faint.

"A decision has been made," the people spoke again, once again in perfect unison.

"Okay, so remember how we said earlier that the zombies moving in perfect sync was incredibly creepy?" Lukas asked, in a strangely calm voice.

Aiden glanced over at the blonde, slowly nodding a little bit. "Yeeeeeeeeeeeessss...?"

"Forget that. This is incredibly creepy. Those zombies moving in unison is downright adorable compared to this."

Jesse regarded the screen, biting her lip slightly. "... well, he's not wrong..."

"PAMA has questions."

Cassie proceeded to unleash an about-thirty-word-long string of swears that ended on something about a 'motherfucking piece of robotic crap' that none of the adults bothered to scold her about.

Onscreen, Petra made a soft sound, the screen panning over to show one of the red-eyed people grabbing her by the forearm, before her eyes hardened and she drew her fist back, punching them right in the face. Their head snapped to the right... before smoothly rotating back to face them again, red eyes completely blank as they stared at Petra.

"Oh Notch," Olivia squeaked, backpedaling a few paces in an attempt to keep a distance with the screen. "Oh Notch."

The Blaze hybrid let out a little yelp that sounded very un-Petra-like. Jesse automatically moved in front of the others, slowly continuing to back up as the red-eyed people began to close in on them.

"You will come to PAMA," the five of them spoke in a very spooky sync.

"No way are you even considering this, Jesse," Petra said, in a very shaky voice (Jace wrapped his arms around Real-Petra tightly, the redhead tightening her own grip on Jace and biting her bottom lip anxiously). "Since when do we take orders from... from..." Right now Petra was so shaky that she appeared to be getting a blank on the term she was trying to remember.

"Mind-controlled people?" Cassie finished for Petra, flatly.

Petra nodded a bit at that, eyes still flickering from person to person. "Yeah. What the redhead said."

Real-Cassie blinked. "... uh, Petra-"

Onscreen, Ivor glanced at Petra, expression changing slightly into one of confusion. "Petra, you're a redhead."

A short pause as Petra processed that.

"Shut up, Ivor."

Half of the audience couldn't help but snort at the amazing rebuttal Petra had just made. Really, it was just so articulate. Very impressive. Harper managed a weak smile, but she was obviously more focused on the screen right now.

Onscreen, Jesse took another hesitant step back, shooting the red-eyed people a nervous smile as they closed in on her.

"It probably helps," the narrator spoke up, mildly, "that you're actually partially amused by that little interaction just now. Honestly, I'd say that if the situation was different, you might've started laughing." A short pause. "Pity that it isn't a different situation."

"For once, I agree with the narrator," Maya said, pointing at the screen a bit.

"Uh- sorry, but, uh, we were actually kind of on our way out-" Jesse began, smiling anxiously.

Petra nodded eagerly at that, her own nervous smile on her face, picking up quickly. "Sorry, we've gotta run, but, ah-"

"W-would you look at the time..." Lukas chuckled nervously, ears and tail flicking around and hitting everything in a three-foot radius. (It didn't take a genius to tell- wow, Lukas was nervous.)

"No need to show us the way out!" Ivor near-chirped, a rather forced smile plastered across his own face.

"We're- um- we're not very, uh, fond of goodbyes," Cassie added in an 'incredibly-forced-cheerful' voice, Winslow letting out a loud hiss at the red-eyed people currently approaching them.

Said red-eyed people continued approaching, completely emotionlessly.

"Well, uh... that didn't work," Hadrian said, rather flatly.

"No duh Sherlock!"

Onscreen, Jesse's smile suddenly fell. "Wait!" she shouted, all eyes migrating to her. "Wait... we'll..." She squeezed her eyes shut. fists trembling as she clenched them even tighter. "... we'll come with you. Just... please... don't hurt them."

All eyes migrated to Jesse automatically, the petite girl twisting her hands together anxiously as she watched the screen. Reuben looked over, gently nudging his nose into her leg. She looked down, before managing a frail smile and reaching over, petting him gently.

Onscreen, Petra's eyes widened, her left arm starting to spit out sparks. She wasn't the only one to have a reaction like that- Lukas's tail had started bushing out, Ivor was fidgeting with his sleeve anxiously, and Cassie... well, actually, besides some new claw marks on her beanie (Real-Cassie winced), she just looked incredibly nervous.

"Jesse, no!" Petra hissed. "Why would you say that?!"

"Petra, please." Jesse looked back, hands trembling slightly from how wound up she was. "I don't want you guys getting hurt."

Petra paused, the Blaze hybrid's eyes still going, before she let out a loud huff, crossing her arms. "... fine. We'll go along with these freaks. For now," she muttered reluctantly.

"Your cooperation is... wise," the red-eyed people all chorused, the screen switching back to show them all quirking their left brow in the exact same way.

Harper shook her head, but didn't say anything.

Knowing PAMA, they'd physically drag the gang there if they had to. Jesse's cooperation just ensured that no one got hurt.

Honestly, it might've been the best option.

The screen switched to show the five red-eyed people corralling the five of them through the town, Jesse, Cassie, and Petra glaring at the red-eyed people in front of them as a few others watched from the sidelines. Ivor looked slightly worried, while Lukas's face was deceptively calm. (His tail and ears were still going in overtime though.) "You will follow us to PAMA-"

"Yes, we're following," Jesse snapped at the PAMA-people (hey, that was actually kinda catchy), "doesn't it look like we're following?"

"I just hope you know what you're doing," Petra whispered to Jesse as the screen zoomed out to show many- dozens- of PAMA-people, and a skeleton, and some zombies- well, all of them had red eyes. They were walking along a sort of 'trail', with glowing redstone all over it "We don't have any reason to think whoever's at the end of this march is gonna be in our corner."

"Well, but considering the situation," Soren spoke up, thoughtfully, "it's not really a good idea to resist right about now. We don't know anything about PAMA, not really anyway, and these people are definitely tougher than a regular person. You could easily just get hurt."

Gill frowned at the screen. "... I guess that's true," he mumbled, after about three minutes had passed.

"I'm playing it safe," Jesse said softly, looking over at Petra, "and going along with what they want for now. I... I don't want you guys to get hurt."

"If it makes you feel any better, Petra," Ivor said, in a low voice, "I'm not sure we could resist them, even if we wanted to."

"Not really," Cassie said flatly, not even bothering to keep her voice down, "but at least we're all unharmed right now. Which is more than I can say if we'd tried fighting back."

Petra scowled at the both of them. "I've resisted worse," she told them, quietly.

"Well, I mean, compared to the Witherstorm..." Mevia said, trailing off a bit. "Actually, I see her point."

"Not without getting hurt. And I want to avoid that until we know exactly what we just got ourselves into," the spider hybrid told Petra, softly.

The red-eyed people stopped, leading them onto the podium, a huge machine at the back of the podium, before moving back to stand guard at the staircase. Presumably so that the five of them couldn't just run away.

Harper's face turned very, very pale.

Onscreen, Jesse looked around a bit, curiously. "Wonder what we're here foAH!" and she suddenly jumped back a bit, red and green eyes widening in shock. She wasn't the only one to have the reaction- Petra was starting to emit a huge spray of red-hot sparks, Lukas's tail was standing on end and bushing out again, Ivor was staring up with wide eyes, and Cassie had backed up several steps, Winslow clawing furiously at her beanie and spitting angrily.

The screen switched to show a huge, green... screen lighting up, starting to power on with a funny sound in the background. On the ground, in front of the screen, were dozens of the PAMA-people and monsters, staring up at the group as if they were guest speakers or something.

"What. The hell. Is that?!" Em exclaimed, trying to scramble backwards in her seat.

"That's, uh..." Nell frowned at the screen a bit. "That's a little weird, brah."

"You said it, Nell," Sparklez whispered, faintly.

"Wh... what is that thing?" Lukas asked, his tail sweeping through the air, flicking and curling and undulating in a nervous fury. His blue-green eyes were wide with near terror.

Aiden leaned forward a bit, eyes narrowing in concern. He accidentally dragged Cassie with him, but she didn't look bothered by that right now. Honestly, right now, she just looked more scared.

Also perhaps a little bit as if she was in pain because Winslow had basically dug his claws into her arm and was hissing away.

A face seemed to... almost slam into being on the screen, albeit a very simplistic one. Two vertical lines for the eyes, and a horizontal line for the mouth.

Petra slowly shook her head, the Blaze hybrid's gold eyes as round as dinner plates. "I have no idea," she replied, sounding as faint as anyone had ever heard her.

"You don't suppose it's... friendly, do you?" Ivor asked, sounding equally faint right about now.

Cassie scowled at Ivor a bit. "What, you mean the giant computer thing that's chipped very citizen of this place and brainwashed 'em into doing its bidding? Yeah, it's probably filled with rainbows and kittens and crap like that."

"Cassie."

"Sorry."

A few members of the audience chuckled faintly at the byplay between Cassie and Ivor just now, but most of them were busy being completely wound up. Isa in particular was clutching Milo's arm hard enough to make him flinch a little bit.

Now the face was smiling at the lot of them, and Lukas said, in a slow, nervous way, "Well, I guess, it is kind of friendly looking... in a massively, hugely-intimidating sort of way."

The spider hybrid abruptly nearly choked at that. Real-Jesse had also started giggling, Lukas rubbing the back of his head with a sheepish smile at the amused looks he was now getting.

"I think you could be surrounded by a billion enemies and Lukas can just make one odd comment and make you die laughing," the narrator commented calmly.

A short pause.

"At least the enemies would have less work to do."

Real-Jesse burst out laughing at the sardonic comment, falling over and dragging Lukas with her. Not that he really cared, right now he was just giggling really hard as well. Petra was actually biting her knuckles in an attempt to keep herself from laughing, and Jace had his head buried in Petra's shoulder in an attempt to stop himself from laughing. Ivor had 'coughed', but you could definitely see him smiling right about now. Harper was grinning, the first positive reaction she'd had for a bit now.

Mevia was cackling away, doubled over and almost doing a slight faceplant in the floor from how hard she was laughing. Otto was shaking his head with a smile, while Hadrian was laughing openly. Isa was repressing a huge amount of laughter, while Milo had extracted himself from Isa's grip and dove behind the couch again, Reginald doubled over himself and shaking quite a bit.

Soren was gasping for breath in between laughs, while Gabriel was carefully hiding a grin and Magnus was pretty much dying of laughter. Ellegaard had laughed so much that she pretty much had the hiccups right now, while Cassie was giggling so hard that she was actually making Aiden next to her vibrate a bit. (Not that he really minded.) Gill and Maya had migrated into a hug, both of them pounding each other on their backs to try to stop the laughter (and failing miserably).

Lizzie had tears of amusement rolling down her cheeks, while Stacy had turned around and buried her face in the couch, laughing so hard that she was nearly sobbing. Stampy was chortling into Dan's shoulder, Dan having vibrant purple hair right about now. Sparklez was biting his lip so hard that he was actually drawing blood, but you could see how hard he was trying to repress his giggles. Em was just shaking her head with a smirk, while Nell was cracking up so hard that she'd actually fallen off the couch. Slab and the other gladiators were laughing so hard and so loudly that Jesse actually looked around a bit, half-expecting an earthquake.

Benedict was making a sound suspiciously akin to laughter, while Reuben was letting out his own piggy laugh and Winslow was just sniggering.

"Yeah, I'm gonna guess a 'no' on the 'friendly' thing as well," Jesse mumbled onscreen as they frantically tried to recover from that, "whatever it is... I have a feeling it's behind all this."

"My apologies for the violent nature of this visit," the computer spoke, immediately making Harper's grin fall. The computer's screen began to flicker from face to face as their 'emotions' changed.

Hopefully this would turn out well.

"I am PAMA. Greetings."


A/N: Ohhh, this chapter turned out kinda nice, actually x3 What do you guys think?

Sorry, yes, I know the chapters are getting shorter. It's actually just because I can't think of reactions to certain situations... any suggestions?

RQTC: Have you ever eaten coffee candy?

Yes. I have a bag of it right next to me right now, actually.

LunarStarsMoons: Ah, I see. / Yep... / (is bowled over) xD

sailor . mikuchan: Ahhh xD

DarkPrincess2001: Yep! Nearly 150 x3 We're actually rather ahead of the original Hybrid story in terms of chapters, actually...

Jack: (laughs) / Yep :3 / (laughs) This is only the first episode so far, so yeah xD

BeliTheGhoti0304: (laughs)

Infernius Flashfire: Oh, nice! / Hmmm... two.

Darkbeast Dend: Mmhm.

AquaK13: Indeed xD / HAHAHA YEP xD / x3 / Ooh, nice! / Ahahaha, right? I'd been diving away from the computer all day. / Thanks! :3

RapidSammi: (laughs) Yeah, it's pretty great.

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InsaneAcrobat: Yay! / Oh gosh xD / Actually, since my mom and I share iCloud accounts, her buying it allowed me to download it on MY phone. x3

J.M.M: I get sleepy when I get caffeine instead of hyper.

giriri: (laughs) Yep.

Savannah-the-Caracal: Yeah, he's doing it, I'm fairly sure.

RebekahTPE: (laughs) / Very true, but at least I can figure out the reactions more accurately. / Indeed. / (laughs) That's good, I guess. Then you'll probably like Composite.

andie: Why don't you like Azira again? / Go right ahead. x3 / That's good!

Darkbeast Dend: In terms of Minecraft, or in general? 'Cause that might be Markiplier or Pewdiepie otherwise.

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LegoGirl794: Well, not really...

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Welp, that's all for today! BAI!

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