From Warship005 (ew I'm following him). I really love this fan art a lot! Thank you so much!

K bye

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~ Jake's PoV ~

After I watched Kat jump off the edge, and screamed, I charged toward the edge. I stopped at the end, almost falling down. Because of the night and rain, she disappeared from my view.

My heart felt like it broke into pieces. She just jumped off a cliff after Damen. That was basic suicide. I had a tiny glimmer of hope that she knew what she was doing, but watching your girlfriend jump off a high place to her possible death really doesn't make you feel good.

As I searched the night, I finally saw a hint of silver soaring in the air. Kat. I sighed with relief. She had an elytra.

I was trying to figure out a way of how to get down there, when I heard someone call my name.

"Jake!" Infinity yelled. She swung her diamond sword at a zombie. "Will you stop standing around looking stupid and help us?"

I gripped Kat's flaming sword, and charged into the crowd. Luckily it was more dispersed, so people weren't in a single crowded area. However, there were more mobs than I had seen before, as if they had been summoned. I was also able to see what everyone was doing.

Infinity had her sword, and swung it at the same zombie. She punched him in the face, arching him backwards, and she used his body as a jumping platform. She launched over his head and stuck her sword in the head of another zombie behind him. As the second undead mob disintegrated, my sister stabbed the other one in the chest and finally killed it.

Gordon was battling two skeletons, trying to get Abby to safety. He blocked their arrows with his diamond sword, backing up toward the wall. I saw a spider leap at them from the side, and Abby sliced it out of the air with her sword. Gordon stared at her for a second, then charged at a skeleton and sliced it's head off. He cut off the other one's arm, and swiped it's ribcage, killing it.

Skye and Jona were a whirlwind as they fought the mobs together. They were back to back for a second, both fending off zombies. Then Jona ducked, and Skye swung his sword in a circle, damaging the mobs. He launched over Jona and kicked a zombie in the face, and landed on it's chest with the sword puncturing it. The mob disintegrated. Jona hooked a zombie's head with his diamond pickaxe in the crook between the handle and the curved diamond head. He yanked on it, and smashed his knee into the zombie's chest, making it's head pop right off.

Mastermind was switching between his cannon and his sword. He shot at a creeper, smashing it into a crowd of mobs. He shot the creeper again, killing it. He jumped in with his sword, and stabbed an Enderman in the back. He swiped it's stomach after it turned, and finished it off.

Meanwhile, Elly was using her chain whip (which had some spikes on it that damaged the mobs) to grapple the mobs, leaving them stuck in place. She wrapped one creeper up, and tugged it closer. She kicked it's abdomen. The mob couldn't handle the pressure and disintegrated. Elly wrapped her chain around a zombie, but before she could do anything else, an arrow appeared in the mob's skull. As the zombie died, I looked and saw Rein from a safe area, shooting as many mobs as she could with her bow. Elly narrowed her eyes at her sister, but Rein shot a skeleton that was shooting at Elly. Elly mouthed a thanks.

It was pretty cool to see Ash fight. He had four diamond daggers (two in each hand) that he used. He chucked one at a spider, impaling it in the back. He used another to finish it off with a stab. I saw an Enderman come up behind him, and was about to cry out in warning, but he turned and cut the mob's forearm off. It hissed in pain, and he finally killed it by stabbing two of the daggers into it's stomach.

Jazz was swinging his axe at a creeper swiftly. The sharp edge easily cut through mobs, and the weapon was especially powerful since it was double-bladed. He twirled it in his hands, and threw it at the creeper. I didn't know how the kid did it, but he managed to throw it with such precision that he cut the head off of the mob. I reminded myself not to mess with Jazz.

Scarlet was probably the scariest to watch. She was in the middle of a crowd of mobs, swinging her scythe in a careless manner. She sliced through a creeper's chest with ease. However, the scythe wasn't good with blocking arrows, so she had to dodge them. She used the staff of her scythe to vault herself forward, kicking a zombie into it's fellow mobs. She then brought her weapon down, slicing the mob into two clean pieces.

The other Rebels were holding their ground as well. I saw a girl slide under a zombie, and stab him in the back. A dude with a beard swung his two axes at a creeper, slicing both of it's sides. A boy had a hoe for some reason, and was beating a skeleton with it.

There were a million things going on inside my head, but one thing stood out. Where were the mutant mobs?

"Those scaredy cats are gone." Yuri appeared next to me. He had his magma pistol out, firing calmly into the crowd. I was worried he would shoot one of our friends instead, but he seemed pretty at ease, taking his time.

"Where did they go?" I asked. I stabbed a zombie that came at me in the chest. I brought it down to its knees, and kicked it in the face.

"Underground somewhere, generating these waves of mobs." He shot another bullet and instantly killed an Enderman.

I was impressed. "They can do that?"

Yuri nodded. "To an extent. It takes up a lot of energy, which is why they're away from the action."

I didn't ask how he knew that. "What about Shade? And J?" I looked at the two of them, looking at the fight from the wall. J noticed I was glaring at him, and quickly turned his head away.

"They'll leave eventually. After we win this fight." He said that last part as he smacked his gun against the back of a skeleton's head. It crashed to the ground, and he shot it to kill it.

I nodded, and charged forward.

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~ 3rd person PoV ~

J leaned against the wall with an emotionless expression. He was aware that Shade walked over and stood next to him, but he didn't even glance at him. He was more interested in the fight. All the people that he tricked, minus Kat, Damen, and Marcus, were fighting for their lives. The people that he faked being friends with. They were good fighters, but unless the mutant mobs stopped, they would be overrun.

"Think we should help?"

J immediately thought Shade meant help the Rebels. But then he realized that he meant fight the Rebels.

He noticed that Jake glared at him from across the small battlefield. He turned away, worried he might feel some sort of regret.

"I'll be at the council room at five tomorrow morning. Bring me my money there." J turned and walked toward the hole.

"And why do you think you deserve it?" Shade asked from behind him. "You never killed anyone like you were told to do."

"I gave you the location of their base." J turned around.

Shade smirked. "As if we needed it. The point is, you are an assassin and you were given a job. And you failed it."

"If I had more time, I could've." J argued with him, anger settling in. "But your master got impatient."

"He's not my master." Shade said.

J finally started walking away again. As he went through the fence, he said, "Then quit acting like his slave. Just forget the money."

Shade grumbled, but stayed where he was.

Meanwhile, Jake noticed that the mob numbers were decreasing. He was hopeful that they had a chance. Which meant that he could slip away and search for Kat. However, he didn't know how to get down there.

"Yuri!" Jake called toward the bald old man (😁). "Is there any two-way path I could use to get down to Kat?!"

He kicked a skeleton off the edge, and thought about it. "Two-way? I can't think of any at the moment!"

Jake's face fell.

"There's a cave system under Bladville." Ash happened to be nearby, and joined in on the conversation. "If you could find one of the entrances closer up, you could make your way down."

"How do you know about this?" Yuri asked him.

Ash shrugged. "You don't know what I do in my free time."

"Do you know where any entrances are?" Jake was getting impatient.

He stared down at the sea in thought. "Yeah. Do you have a pick?"

Jake searched his inventory, then sighed. He didn't have one.

"One second." Jake ran over to Jona, who just pulled his pickaxe from a dying zombie's chest. "Yo Jona! Got an extra pick?"

Jona held up his diamond pick that he was using to fight. That was his only one.

"Trade me." Jake took it out of his hands and gave him Kat's sword. Jona looked at it, shrugged, and ran to a creeper that was sneaking up on Rein.

Jake turned back to Ash. "Let's go."

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This is like a few minutes later. K bye.

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~ Kat's PoV ~

My eyes were closed, but I wasn't sleeping. I just was alone with my thoughts, still processing everything. And I mean everything. From when I first woke up in the water, to now. Why things happened the way they happened.

The big thing that I thought of was why we went to Bladville. Why did Notch send us? There were so many other options. Other people to take our place, he himself could've gone, it could've been by letter or something. He shouldn't have trusted us with this. Thanks to Notch, at least three people died, and we lost Bladville.

I mentally scolded myself for thinking like that. It wasn't his fault. We could've done better. I could've done better.

All of a sudden, I felt arms around me. I jerked my head up, and saw Jake sitting next to me, a sad look on his face.

I wanted to ask him what happened up at the top, and how he got down. But instead of saying anything, I just put my forehead on my knees. I felt Jake rest his chin on my head.

After a little bit of sitting there in silence, I finally spoke in a muffled tone, "What happened up there?"

"The mutant mobs vanished." I heard him say. "They went underground. Started generating waves of mobs."

"Oh no... wait, they can do that?"

He chuckled bitterly. "I suppose so. But when I came down here, the mob count started decreasing, so everyone should be fine. Man, you should've seen the fighting..."

"How did you get down here?"

"Ash showed me a cave system that led down here. You'll see it when we go back up. But what happened down here?"

"I fought Herobrine." I said simply.

"You did what?" Jake lifted his head up and unwrapped his arms.

I looked at him. "I was on my elytra, I saw him searching the water, and I plowed into him. We fought in the water." I didn't mention that it was underwater.

"And you survived?" He was bewildered. "No offense, but that's like..."

"Pretty hard to fight a god." I nodded. "I had to get away, and he didn't follow me."

"He must've continued looking for the code."

"Yeah..." I pulled it out and looked at the black rectangle. "It's a real shame he won't ever find it."

Jake laughed. "You are amazing." He plucked it out of my hand and looked at it.

"Do you know anything about it?" I asked. I usually didn't know as much as him.

"I never heard of a code that held a god's power." He admitted. "It sounds ridiculous in my opinion."

"I know right." I sighed. "Time to add another thing to the list of questions I need to ask Notch." I paused. "I can't believe Damen sacrificed his life for this."

"I would've done the same, if I were in his situation."

"Would you do it if we were still together?" I asked him.

He hesitated. "If it meant for you to live, then of course."

I smiled. "I would do the same for you."

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We navigated through the cave system pretty easily. There were some steep paths that we had to climb up. But we used a pick to make staircases, so it was no problem. And there were no mobs that bugged us.

Finally, we entered the surface. We went up a manmade staircase that Jake must've made that led us to the outside perimeter of the island. I looked around, but I couldn't see anyone.

"They're this way." Jake said to me. Then, he ran to the left. I quickly followed after him.

"Do you think they'll be okay?" I huffed out as we sprinted.

"They should be. I trust our friends."

"Not saying I don't." I muttered.

Finally, I saw figures in the dark. Many, many people. As I got closer, I realized it was our friends. Everyone was there and accounted for. I couldn't tell if any of the other Rebels were gone, though (sad). Some people were bandaging themselves or others. Yuri, Ash, and Scarlet were discussing intensely. Infinity, Gordon, and Abby were looking over the edge.

"Do you see anyone?" Gordon asked Abby. "You're supposed to have excellent vision with those glasses."

"Maybe we should throw Gordon off the edge and see if he can find them." Infinity suggested. Gordon narrowed his eyes at her, and backed away from the edge.

"Guys!" I called out.

Everyone turned our way. There was a collective, "Kat!"

"Okay... don't acknowledge me." Jake breathed out as we stumbled to a walk.

"You aren't the one who jumped off a cliff." Infinity responded to him as she gave me a one-armed hug. "Are you okay, Kat?"

"I'm fine." I answered. "How is everyone else?"

"None." Scarlet finally said something. "Just some injuries. Nothing serious."

Jazz laughed. "We're just that good."

"What did you do?" Yuri walked over along with the rest of them.

I explained the whole thing to them. Putting on my elytra (Yuri gave me a disapproving look when I said I stole it), gliding and hitting Herobrine, fighting him in the water, getting the code, and escaping. Then Jake found me.

"What did you guys do after he found you?" Gordon wiggled his eyebrows.

"I will punch you." I told him.

"We went up and found you guys." Jake finished, glaring at Gordon. Then, he pulled out Jona's pickaxe. "By the way, here you go, Jona."

"You guys need to get your own picks." He said as he took his weapon and gave me my sword.

"Now you know how I feel when they take my hoodie." Ash whispered. Rein shushed him.

"Brilliant work, Kat!" Yuri said. "Please, give me the code."

"Do you know how it works?" I brought it out.

"I just want to keep it safe." He said.

I shook my head. "No offense, but I'm keeping it until we get to Notch."

He looked at me as if he expected me to give it to him. Finally, he said, "Okay. I understand." However, I could tell he was a little upset.

"Wait," Jake said, "Where are Shade and J?"

"J left a little bit before you did." Elly informed him. "And Shade snuck out before we could get to him."

I growled. "That boy will pay."

"Later." Yuri put his pistol away. "Right now, we need to leave the city."

"Can't we catch our breath for a few minutes?" Rein asked, putting away her bow.

"He's right." Skye chipped in. "We gotta go as soon as possible. Herobrine and/or his mutant mobs could come back any second."

"And we need to go before any security guards finally notice the commotion." Abby agreed.

After everyone else finally said yes, Yuri announced it to the others. Most of them complained, but eventually went with it when he reminded them of what Skye said.

"We can cut around the perimeter," Ash said, "and not get caught."

"Good idea." Yuri complimented him. Then, he turned to everybody else. "My comrades, let us leave this place finally."

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Don't worry, @Dedenne14. Your character, J, will come back soon.

But how was that action in the beginning? Was it satisfying?

Everything else was just boring tbh.

Who's ready for twenty more chapters of walking :D

I really don't have anything else to say.

Question: Would you rather want to morph into a spider (climb up walls and make it through 1 block high holes) or morph into a creeper (blow up, but not die)? Frick idk where these questions are going anymore. Good thing this book is almost over and I won't be doing this in the next book.

Rock on, my little rebels.