Song for this chapter: Good Girl by Carrie Underwood.

Everyone crowded into the giant Sky Army auditorium. I tried to spot out the thousands of recruits sitting in their chairs to listen to their devoted leader. As I gathered with Sierra, Ant, Mitch, Quentin, Ty, Jerome, Mat, Ian, Preston, and Bashur, Sky shot a glance at me before entering the backstage area. He took a speaker system that Bodil created, and ran onto the stage. All of the recruits cheered.

"Sky!"

"All hail the Budder King!"

"What's going on?!"

There was so much commotion that Sky had to yell into the speaker. "Shut up!" The room shifted in a state of silence, allowing Sky to speak, "Believe it or not, Herobrine is back. And he wants revenge for what we did three months ago."

Someone attempted to interrupt but was stopped by another recruit.

"One of our own is in the grasp of Herobrine, and we must return to the Nether to save her."

"Didn't General Sparklez kill him?" the same recruit piped up. His friend next to him glared at him in shock, "What if Sparklez is lying to us, and really working with Herobrine…? Sky…?"

Sky, with a blank expression, stared at the recruit, "Out! Out!" The recruit stood and paced out of the auditorium, ignoring the stares of the other recruits. The Budder King turned to the rest of his army, "If you dare to contradict Jordan's relation to the Sky Army, you will end up like him." He pointed to the immature recruit.

No one made any motions to communicate. They all kept their eyes on Sky who was holding the speaker.

"Now, back to what you were doing. We travel to the Nether at midnight."

"What about the mobs?" Mitch whispered.

"Oh, yeah… about that… we'll deal with it."

The meeting was dismissed. The generals had to wait an extra five minutes to make sure that everyone was outside. When those five minutes expired, I exited the auditorium second to last, before Sky and after Ty. We left by role of authority. Sky, as leader, left last.

I headed over to the living quarters. I shared a room with Sierra and she had gone into the room with me. We begun to plan out our armor setup. I attempted to convince her to stay, but she argued with me about it. Not wanting to interrupt in Sierra's personal business, I allowed her to join me. I decided to wear all diamond armor and carry around my enchanted diamond sword, which was not close to breaking, even after all of those uses. My bow and arrows were also stashed in my inventory, along with two celebratory cakes, two stacks of steaks, and two stacks of watermelon. Sierra picked a budder helmet, and iron armor. I warned her about lower powered armor, but enchanted it to lessen her probability of getting hurt. She also proposed to carry around her iron axe, which I enchanted Sharpness III and Unbreaking I. The two of us would split the food loots.

We traveled into the main Sky Army entryway. Most of the recruits dressed in full budder armor and budder swords. Only the generals wore iron, and Sky, Ty, and I wore diamond.

"Jordan," I heard a familiar voice say, "We're back. Ray wanted me to… so I came. If you want me to leave…"

"Beatrice. You can stay. We need all the help we can get. The Sky Army is going into the Nether to save my sister."

"The Nether? Hey, I can probably help you out with that. I'll contact Void. She's still a double agent…"

"Not right now." I turned around to see Beatrice, Ray, Yosh, and Snowy. I grinned, "Did you four team up or something?"

"Sorta," Snowy replied, "Beatrice was cool, and since she's an Illusionist and I was a former Illusionist, we bonded."

"I'm glad to hear that."

"We heard that Cliff is gone," Yosh interrupted. I nodded. He continued, "Are we gonna make a sacrifice to Herobrine, like yourself… or?"

"Why would you say that?" I questioned, confused. I slightly tilted my head sideways.

"Oh, nothing." Yosh shook his head in denial.

"Is there something that you're not telling me?"

"No…"

"Was Cliff telling the truth? Do you really work for Herobrine and want me to come and surrender myself. If that's the case, then never."

"I don't…"

"He doesn't work for Herobrine." Another loud voice boomed. All of the recruits faced the voice. Paul. He held tightly onto iEcho, threatening her at sword point. With his other hand, Paul snapped and completed changed his attire. Instead of thrashed clothes, his new ones were polished and thick. Tan skin cloaked his body. His hair turned into a dark brown slicked-back simple look. The turquoise shirt he wore covered a tiny part of his royal purple pants. Brown shoes dressed his feet. But the most recognizable part of his new appearance scared me. The blank white eyes.

"Hero… Hero…" I stuttered.

"Herobrine?" he asked, chuckling at my attempts to stay confident, "And yes, I was Paul all this time. iEcho was in the Nether. A little birdie told me that you were off to rescue her, so I decided to pay you and Sky a visit, with your little sister."

"Give her back… or else… I'll kill you once and for all…" I threatened, obviously failing.

"Ha! As if!" Herobrine pushed the sword closer to iEcho's neck. I stepped forward, but not before Preston rushed up at the Nether King and plunged his iron sword into his chest. I gasped. Herobrine, as strong as he was, became shocked at this action, and temporarily released iEcho, leaving enough time for her to run off with Preston. Herobrine pulled the sword out of his chest and threw it on the ground, "Now! Where's that boy who thinks he can get away with my hostage?!"

"You'll never find him, you retard!" Bashur shouted, trying to distract the Nether King.

"Huh? You think? What's your name?"

"Shouldn't you know, white eyes? I am a melon head! Ha ha! Ha ha!"

"Bashur. I should've thought…" Herobrine switched his attention to the direction of the infirmary. He had spotted Preston and iEcho. He grinned and cringed his eyebrows together. I was the first to realize his plan.

"Sky!" I yelled across the entryway, "Get Preston!"

"Why?"

At this moment, Preston started to be dragged across the floor, closer and closer to Herobrine. I raced to grab his leg. Ty held the other. We pulled as hard as we could. At least four other generals helped us: Sierra, Mat, Ian, and Sky, but we were too late. Preston had disappeared, and so did Herobrine.

"That's it!" I growled, "We're going to the Nether, now!"

I raised up my diamond sword, "For the Sky Army!"

All of the other recruits followed my example. All of us who were not staying at HQ charged out of the headquarters, prepared to defeat creatures of the Nether.