"Round up the others, I want nobody unaccounted for." Ivy ordered Nikki and Darcie. They nodded, and walked off, weapons in hand. Ivy herself just stood there in front of the resistance, all tied up together and sitting on the ground guarded by Angel and Vixen. She cheerfully walked over to them and spoke to Steve.
"How does it feel to be useless? How does it feel knowing you've failed? It must sting, inside you just eating away at your soul, your regrets and uselessness consuming you."
"We're not done yet. I'll show you and your bitch friends just how far we've come. You'll be sorry." Steve replied with clenched teeth, a heavy tone of anger in his voice, like what you might expect from a prisoner communicating with his captor.
"And exactly what have you achieved? How have you stopped your precious Overworld from being totally destroyed?"
Steve suddenly felt like he had been punched in the stomach. His confidence sank away into shock and realization. They had been so preoccupied with keeping the base functional that they had never formulated a plan to attack Herobrine in the first place, or even cripple his forces in any way.
"You put protecting yourself over protecting those you needed to. You are a coward. You only care about yourselves and you tried to hide from the destruction. To run away and hide like the useless cowards you are and always have!" Ivy raised her voice at that last sentence, before punching Steve in the nose. Hard. And repeatedly.
Some of the girls started crying, forced to watch this horror show unfolding in front of their eyes, while others tried to turn away.
"STOP IT RIGHT NOW YOU FUCKING MONSTERS!" Sam screamed at the top of his voice, causing Ivy's attention to shift off of Steve and onto himself. She walked over and smiled condescendingly at him.
"Yes, yes we are. We are monsters. We trained ourselves to lose our empathy a long time ago. We don't care about humanity. We don't know what sympathy is. If we did, you might have been able to use your little mind games to trick us into helping you, just like the Lords traitorous daughters."
"You're better than this. Just let us go, we can help you. Please, I don't want to see anyone so corrupted, so insane, so…so…wrong!" Steve called back in her direction.
Ivy tensed up and stood over Steve again. This time she unsheathed a large green sword and held it an inch away from Steve's nose.
"Shut your fucking whining. You don't want to see someone like me? Then I'll grant that request. I'll make it so you never see anything again…" The lime green Terra Blade moved away from Steve's face and repositioned itself against his neck.
(Authors Note. The Terra Blade looks pretty much exactly the same as the one in Terraria. It was introduced into Minecraft by the Botania mod, which is what Ivy uses.)
"Sorry to be so much of an ex machina, but I think you've had enough gloating for one day!" came a familiar voice from behind them, followed by the unconscious bodies of Nikki and Darcie thrown in Ivy's direction. Vixen and Angel rushed over to help them, but were in turn knocked unconscious by several large objects thrown at them from the dark, lightless corridor, out of which stepped Valerie.
"Hope I'm not too late." she said to the captives, who cheered her on, looking forward to seeing her beat Ivy.
"Oh, no, I don't think you've been much of a problem at all. There's really nothing to apologise for."
With one sudden movement, Ivy teleported suddenly behind Valerie and grabbed her by the arms before disabling her and throwing her to the ground. Everyone gasped at this, the Ender Dragon herself was taken down by a simple dryad?
"You are the most pathetic one here. You are a traitor, a failure, a useless, washed-up loser. You can't even fly."
"And you can? I don't think so." Valerie snapped in response.
Ivy simply smiled and took out a small purple headpiece, sort of like a circlet or something, and put it on. Instantly she lifted off the ground, holding Valerie by the neck. Punching the ceiling and flying off through the hole left, she held the flightless dragon over the void like sky of the Twilight Forest. At that moment, she didn't know what to decide. Continue to hold onto her neck until she choked her to death, or drop her and let gravity do the dirty work? It turned out this hesitation was a bad idea, as she didn't see the dark shape barrelling down on her though the dark blue sky. Hazy grey smoke leaving a dark trail behind, it slammed into Ivy's back, knocking her to the ground. The mighty impact flattened most of the house, and shattered Ivy's flying instrument.
"No! My Flugel Tiara! That was expensive!" She screamed with anger as the black shape materialised into the form of Willow.
"Nobody hurts my sister and lives. I will give you a choice. Either you stay and fight, in which I will kill you and your allies, or you may return to Herobrine in disgrace and failure, of which I doubt you will be granted mercy." She said to Ivy in a dark, cold tone. Ivy was stricken with fear, she couldn't move while staring at this deadly force of wither destruction. With all of her energy, she stood up without saying a word, woke up her friends, and when they were all conscious again, retreated back into their own dimension.
When everything was calm again, they began to salvage as much of the ravaged town as possible. A few people were still shocked at the sights they had seen, but they knew it could have been much worse. They began to discuss a new base, but they had no idea how to build one that would last.
"They keep searching through dimensions, we can't make a base that will stay in one place, and there's no way we can make one that can be wherever we need it to and easily transportable at the same time!" argued Fayruz, who, like the other humans, had not said much throughout the event.
Vanessa was not fazed by this, Her gaze shifted to a chest cart that had been thrown out of the cart workshop, its metal and wood body sparking the start of an idea.
"Maybe we can make a base like that. Maybe we can…"
Authors Note:
Well, I'm over a HUGE bout of writers block and procrastination, but I finally have the next chapter up, hope you enjoyed!
Have a happy Christmas Day to all, and I will have the next chapter up by New Years!
P.S. With all this writers block that's been affecting me lately, I'd appreciate any plot elements that you would like to see that I might not be able to come up with.
If there's a place you want the characters to visit, a plot twist you want to see happen, or a potential couple who should get together, don't be afraid to PM me and tell me what you would like to see in the story!
Now that's out of the way, have fun and stay golden, and I'll see you January 1st 2016!