YAEBI'S POV

Wow, the City of the Slimes sure is a busy place for an underground cave system. I had some industrial credits lying around in my pack, so I let Vanessa and Shara off to buy something, while Crystal told me about the city.

''This place used to be a huge hub for tool and weapon trading.'' she told me. ''Then one day, the people just…stopped coming. Nobody knows why, we had a lot of rare stuff to offer. Do you know how hard it is to get a silk touch pick with five bookshelves? They did, so they would always come here to get what they needed. I just wish I could have helped…Oh look, here's my house.''

By house, she must have meant shack made of junk. There were weird obsidian, iron, gold and lapis bricks built into the walls, the rest was made out of scorched black stone and completely clear glass. In the centre was an enormous black chimney rising into the sky, joining others equally as high from other houses. We were about to go inside when Vanessa and Shara came back with what they had bought. Vanessa had bought an alumite dagger, while Shara had gotten a silk touch shovel made of what she said was cobalt. We all followed Crystal inside and introduced us to her family, an older and younger sister of hers. They both looked like an older and younger version of Crystal, but had their own uniqueness. The older slime, Gelli, always seemed calm and caring, while the little slime, Sonny, was cute yet intriguing. After Crystal explained how to use Tinkers Construct, Gelli showed me the large thing in the middle of the room, their smeltery. After a few hours of explaining how it worked, I became rather interested in Tinkers. The next morning, we began to set off back home to reunite Stephanie and Vanessa. I hope she and the others are getting along well…

LOCATION: BASE E

TIME: 6:45 PM

Valerie couldn't take it anymore. She had to go and attack the spider girl's base. She could kill everyone there easily. Herobrine, though, said she mustn't. He had a feeling it was not going to end well. Willow didn't say anything, she was too busy with some blocks of obsidian, for a reason none of them could explain. ''It's a valuable investment.'' she had said. But so far, Valerie just didn't know. She really wanted to go and kill them. So, she jumped through the warp portal when no one was watching, and landed right outside the mesa biome. This would be quick and simple, or so she thought…

CINDY'S POV

I like this bow. But not nearly as much as I like Stephanie's laser. We were training in the range when she first brought it out. It was black with a red tip and a red sight, and it looks badass. I asked Steph if I could have one of those, but she just told me I had to stick with my new bow. Typical teenage arthropod girl. Oh well, I still enjoy this cool electric bow, as she calls it. Cupa seems to be worried about her; she says she hasn't been very happy recently. I hope she'll be okay… Just then Cupa walked up to Stephanie and asked her something I couldn't quite hear. Steph replied that she was okay, just a little unhappy, and walked up to the shooting ranges smallest target. She fired the laser, and the target exploded into flames.

''Oh yeah, blowing stuff up always makes me feel better.'' she said, and walked off. Cupa followed her, and I snuck around, trying to hear their conversation. They were in the room where Stephanie had shown us her ancestors, and right now she was looking at another picture she had not mentioned. The painting was of a pretty young woman, who Stephanie seemed to resemble. Cupa looked up at the woman.

''Who's that?'' she asked. ''That's Silk Spyderr, the relative that changed my life the most.'' Stephanie answered

''And in what way would that be?'' Cupa asked again.

''She was my mother.''

Cupa gasped a little bit. I was astonished.

''She wasn't one of the casualties in the… incident, she died shortly after Vanessa was born. I'm sorry, I just can't go on…'' A few tears ran down her face. Cupa put her arm around her and said something I couldn't hear. Then, suddenly, a huge crash ripped a huge hole in the mountain.

''Hello, girls.'' said Valerie, appearing through the hole. She was carrying a massive, weird looking machine on her back while flying, and I had no idea what it was, but it definitely looked menacing.

''Shit! My energetic electron gun!'' Stephanie shouted, as everyone came running into the room, and then dived out again.

''This place is a dump.'' Valerie was saying. ''I'm probably doing you a favour here.'' as she tore more of the base apart. She had such unbelievable strength, and she can fly? We are totally screwed. Cupa threw explosives at Valerie, but she just shrugged them off. Andr tried to shoot portals at her, but she couldn't keep up. Stephanie was telling Steve to do something about the power, and when he said he didn't understand, she simplified it to: ''Go pull that lever over there.'' Meanwhile, she ripped a cover off and messed around with wires, started stockpiling glowing crystals, and building a machine. Suddenly, Valerie noticed Stephanie and flew in her direction.

''I'll take care of you now, like I should have done all that time ago!'' she screamed as the prepared to ram her. At the last spare second, she switched on her machine, and Valerie ploughed straight into a wall of light.'' She got up to find she was stuck in a cube, a forcefield, as Steph explained it. We all cheered, at least those who are still conscious. Valerie was screaming and pounding against the sides of the forcefield, so we just pushed it into a still structurally sound room.

''Tomorrow we'll interrogate her, find out why she's been staling all weird stuff.'' Andr told us. We all had our own questions we wanted answering, none more so than Stephanie…