About two months ago... at Redstonia. The Dome of Concentration.

A large portal, framed in a mechanical device that's 5 blocks tall and 5 blocks wide. Watching and showing Jess walk back to her secret home after her job in the Twilight Forest.

The lady watching the whole thing far away is residing in Redstonia. So who could invent such a thing? Ellegaard, the Redstone Engineer of course. One of the 'heroes' of the Order of the Stone that 'killed' the Ender Dragon.

Now why would a genius like her be concerned with a girl like Jess? Ellegaard needs to know about Jess, more importantly her connection to Ivor and the location of the Command Block.

Plus... Jess is a monster. A demon. She killed so many people, and will continue to do so. Ellegaard knows what she did to Boom Town, and fears what she'll do to other kingdoms. Most importantly, Redstonia.

So that's why Ellegaard didn't feel bad for what she's going to do next: raiding Jess' base, eliminate her so she won't do anyone more harm, and looting everything inside.

Ellegaard will then study how Jess controls monsters, how she evolves them, and use the knowledge to help people. Imagine controlling monsters as cheap labor for mining or farming instead of using them to hurt others like necromancers loyal to their kingdom do.

Little did Ellegaard know that a certain Old Builder, who's also a redstone engineer, tried to do the same thing: using monsters as cheap labor. Ellegaard will get the same results as she did: it will backfire... BIG TIME!

"Mam," a soldier walked up behind Ellegaard, snapping her out of her thoughts. He is wearing metal armor, a red and gold exoskeleton that covers all of his features while enhancing his physical abilities. "We're ready. Do we charge in?" he asked, looking at Jess walk inside her cave.

Ellegaard looked behind her, looking at the mechanically enhanced soldier. "Does your team have the exothermic blocks placed around the mountain?"

"We did what you told us to do, mam." Replied Ellegaard's soldier. "But... isn't a exothermic reaction a bit extreme?"

"Calvin," Said Ellegaard, addressing the man inside the armor. "This woman kills people on a daily basis. Do not forget who she is, what she can do. Don't pity someone who's remorseless as they are ruthless."

If Calvin's face was exposed, it would be shocked by Ellegaard's cold tone. "Very well," he nodded. "Do we proceed?"

"Of course you proceed," granted Ellegaard. "It is my plan after all, and don't you forget it."

Calvin nodded. Ellegaard shifted the portal's view over to her other soldiers, the ones that Calvin will be leading. "Detonate the exothermic blocks when you arrive."

Calvin walked through, joining his fellow soldiers for the mission. Calvin then pulled out a small device with a red button on top. He pressed it.

The exothermic blocks surrounding the mountain detonated. In a heartbeat, 20 arcs of orange energy flew straight up, out of the exothermic blocks, and merged in the center as they dived down.

They pierced the top of the mountain with a boom. A second later a potent discharge of heat blasted out of the entrance, and the top of the mountain, to Jess' secret home.

Ellegaard is not Magnus, she has control after all. The intense heat was released inside the mountain, effectively killing everything inside.

Since Jess is inside, the confined space will make it easier to incinerate her. With only the front entrance, and the top of the mountain, as the only ways for the heat to escape, it will be a long time before it cools down.

There is also the bonus of the huge, crushing amount of force that was released when the blast went off. So if being brutally slammed against the wall didn't kill Jess, then the lethal heat will.

Ellegaard watched through the portal as Calvin waited for the smoke to clear before heading in, enabling the night vision in their armor to see in the dark.

But Ellegaard's portal can't view through solid objects. If it did, she wouldn't need to send a squad of soldiers to scout ahead. Ellegaard pulled out a small communication device, also invented by her. "Calvin," Ellegaard spoke through it. "what's the status?"

"This place is pretty simple," He reported. "There is only a large, circular room here."

"Anything on interest?" she asked. That couldn't be it, could it? There has to be more.

"There is a," he paused, trying to find the right word. "Shrine. A big one too."

"Describe the remains." demanded Ellegaard.

"That's the issue," Calvin reported. "Everything else is damaged and burned, but the this shrine is intact. It survived the exothermic reaction!"

"How is that possible?" asked a surprised Ellegaard. "What does it look like?"

"A grand pyramid structure, with pillars capped with redstone equally surrounding it," Described Calvin. "Not only that, there are runes carved on every visible surface, describing that this is a very important shrine. The grooves are filled with... something. I don't know what it is!"

Ellegaard thought for a moment. "Have your team take it apart carefully, and send it through the Ender Chest," She ordered. "Meanwhile, go inspect the base."

And so, the mechanically enhanced soldiers took apart Jess' shrine that was dedicated to Notch and Herobrine. One that took months to finish. All of that hard work, destroyed by a woman's curiosity.

"Ellegaard, I found something." Reported Calvin. "I sent two things through the Ender Chest."

Ellegaard stepped away to go to the Ender Chest. Opening it, ignoring the shine parts, she found a scorched journal containing designs for mechanical constructs, with hidden weapons that are coated in poison. Golems.

"Amazing," Ellegaard whispered, looking through the designs for the golems. It seems Jess was going to invent a new school of crafting. Now it seems Ellegaard will take the credit for it.

The second item, is a black, heart-shaped pendent with white flames. It's damaged, a bit melted do to the extreme heat. But she will examine the shrine and the pendent later.

She walked back to the portal, seeing nothing but the smoking mountain of Jess' home. But then she saw the entrance collapse, trapping Calvin and his team inside.

"Calvin, the entrance collapsed." warned Ellegaard. "You are going have to dig out."

"Not a problem Ellegaard," said Calvin, "This exoskeleton armor will make it easy– AAAAAAAAAHHhh-!"

CRUNCH-SPLAT!

"Calvin, what's wrong?" asked Ellegaard. Nothing but static on the other end. "Calvin report!"

Nothing. Ellegaard switched the frequency to talk to a different soldier. "Report!" Ellegaard shouted/commanded. "What happened to Calv-?!"

Her question was interrupted. "Oh Notch, no!" screamed the soldier. "Stay back! Stay-!"

SPLAT!

Ellegaard started to panic. Every frequency she switched to was greeted by painful screaming and begs for mercy. Then after a minute, everything was silent.

"Is anyone there?!" she shouted into the communication device, but was only greeted with static silence.

...

...

...

Ellegaard held up the communication device. "Anyone?" she whispered, looking through the portal, wishing she could see through the mountain to know what's going on in there!

But as if some higher being heard her, the mountain cracked and shook violently before exploding. Revealing a scorched crater, where the exothermic reaction took place.

There was a lone figure in the ruins. A woman. Some of her black hair was burnt off. The rest of her body is horribly burned as her left eye turned white from being cooked from the inside out.

Yet her remaining, green eye was filled with so much hate... and sadness? But really scary part? Jess is looking directly through the portal, at Ellegaard.

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About two months later...

Ellegaard woke up from that dream: a repeated memory she relives every time she falls asleep. She looked around. "Right... I'm in my workshop...  in my Dome of Concentration... she can't get me here." She reassured herself, wiping off the sweat from her forehead.

Ellegaard got off the ground. She saw her item request system to her left. With the tubes and the chest that the requested items go to. In front of her was her advanced crafting machine on the wall.

It's really just four crafting tables being pushed towards the center by pistons. Ellegaard places the items on the faces of the crafting tables, the pistons push them together to craft more complicated recipes.

But ever since the war, Mana, and other variables, Redstonia advanced technologically. It had to in order to survive, not as much as Boom Town since they're overpowering in terms of raw power.

To Ellegaard's right is a smooth, black computer screen. It's 7 blocks wide and 5 blocks tall. Framed in quartz blocks, and other technology to help it run. A single illuminating redstone dust was in the center of the dark screen.

This is one of Ellegaard's greatest achievements: creating artificial intelligence, or A.I. for short.

"Hello Ellegaard," Its voice is smooth, male, and comforting. The redstone dust on the screen glows in sync with its words. "You fell asleep again after your 2,118th attempt to create a Command Block."

She looked at the remains of her latest failure: creating a Command Block. "I need to finish it, Calvin" she said, acknowledging the A.I. that was named after a fallen soldier. "I need to stop her. Send me more items."

"Must you continue?" Calvin asked, doing as it was told as Ellegaard heard the all-too-familiar sounds of items being imported through the glass pipes. "Redstonia needs you. Locking yourself in here while your assistants, and your neglected apprentice, deal with everything outside is not only bad for you, but your citizens as well."

Ellegaard placed the items in the crafting machine. "They can handle themselves, Calvin, run the machine."

The A.I. didn't hesitate. "Very well... but it seems you have a guest, Ellegaard." Said the A.I. as Ellegaard looked behind her to see her apprentice. "A bit of socialization will do you some good."

"Just run the machine, Calvin." Snapped Ellegaard as the A.I. went silent, focusing on helping Ellegaard create a Command Block. Ellegaard looked behind her to see her apprentice herself.

[Olivia] Level 200

Class: Golem Tinkerer

"Olivia, how did you get in here?" Ellegaard asked before shaking her head, remembering that she had to complete the Command Block. "Olivia, as you can see, I'm doing some ultra-genius stuff here. So come back when I'm not busy."

"But you're always busy," Protested Olivia, much to Ellegaard's annoyance. "I've been waiting in Redstonia for weeks when I arrived here! I need to talk to you about the bounty poster."

Ellegaard let out a frustrated huff. "If it is about me not rewarding your friend, Jesse, then-"

"No, I'm sure you had a good reason." Said Olivia, trying to ease the tension of her stressed boss. Not quite defying Ellegaard, but also not truly sticking up for her friend. "I just wanted to know why you and Magnus put that bounty poster against my friend, Jess, in the first place."

"If you have forgotten, Olivia, she wiped out Boom Town, and she attacked the City." Sassed Ellegaard. "Although how she managed to prove herself innocent still surprises me."

Olivia was confused. "But... the bounty poster was sent out years before any of those events happened!" Countered Olivia, wanting to know why Ellegaard tried to ignore the question.

"Creation failed." Reported Calvin. "It's good to see you again, Olivia."

"Ellegaard please, me and my friends need to know the reason why you and Magnus sent out that bounty poster," begged Olivia as Ellegaard replaced the items in the machine. "It's the very thing that influenced dozens- no, hundreds of people who died trying to capture Jess!"

"I don't need to explain why!" The false hero replied icily. Because the actual truth? Jess knows about the Command Block, about how the Order used it, and how they betrayed Ivor. Her reputation would be ruined!

Ellegaard was always a genius, but no one respected her, or took her seriously. She was just another girl, another redstone engineer, in another group of friends that wanted to go on adventures. She was no one special.

So what made it all change? Her becoming a 'hero' and standing above the rest of everyone else. She wasn't a redstone engineer, she is the redstone engineer! The one people respect and listen. Who come to her for teaching and guidance.

But Ivor, and his new friend, Jess, threaten to take it all away. She won't just be nobody again, she'll be something worse: a fraud. Although, that may never happen.

Ever since Magnus told her that Ivor is dead, a small part of her felt sad, knowing that she'll never make amends for what she, and the rest of the Order, did.

However, a small, sick part of her mind is relieved. The Order's secret died with Ivor... but now his friend can expose all of that.

Even though it's Jess' word against the rest of the Order, she must know where the Command Block is. Magnus repeated to Ellegaard how Jess explained Ivor's death... but not what caused it.

Even though it wasn't the whole story, Magnus said that Jess told him that Ivor died a horrible, slow death when exiting a dimension. Nothing direct about the Command Block, or the Harbinger Series, but it was enough for Ellegaard to notice.

'That girl knows about the Order and the Command Block,' Thought Ellegaard. 'She's on a destructive path against the Order, and she already took out Magnus!'

"Olivia, I need to be alone." Dismissed Ellegaard as she attempted again to create a Command Block.

"No," Said Olivia, much to Ellegaard's shock. "I need answers, I'm your apprentice!"

"And I'm the master, so don't forget your place, Olivia." Ellegaard spat. "So leave my Dome of Concentration!"

Olivia was getting annoyed. Is this what Jess, disguised as Jeimass, meant when she said that Olivia is like Ellegaard? Arrogant? It was like looking into a mirror. "No Ellegaard, I-!"

Her boss interrupted her and said two words. "You're fired."

Everything was silent. "W-What?"

"I said, you're fired. I don't need an apprentice who talks back at their superior who clearly knows better!" shouted Ellegaard "So again, you're fired. Don't come back, and stop asking questions!"

She then faced her A.I. "Calvin, delete Olivia's employment record, and find a replacement."

A few seconds later and it was done. "Termination completed."

Olivia couldn't believe it. But not because of her terminated employment. It was now she realized how Ellegaard acted: her arrogance, her pride, and how badly she treated her. Was this how she treated Axel? "Fine, I'll leave." Calmly replied Olivia as she walked away.

Olivia was not going to waste her anger on Ellegaard. And to think she looked up to her! Ellegaard may be a hero... but she's not Olivia's hero, not anymore. She's done with the ruler of Redstonia.

"Calvin," Olivia called out to the A.I. "Can you open the dome?" It used to open with a few levers, but since Jess, the war, Redstonia upped its security.

"I do not have access to that," reported the A.I. "Only Ellegaard's override code can open the dome."

Ellegaard just pulled out a piece of paper, quickly wrote something down before shoving it to Olivia. "Here, now get out." she spat. "Calvin, after she uses the code, and leaves, release the security golems so no one can interfere when I insert a new password."

"Very well." Replied Calvin as it continued to help with the creation of the Command Block.

But before Olivia walked out, and she said one last thing to her former boss. "I don't know what you stole from Jess, Ellegaard, but she's coming for you."

"Should I be afraid?" Ellegaard scoffed, rolled her eyes. "I killed an Ender Dragon, I'm an expert in redstone, and I invented golem crafting!"

"No, you didn't, Ellie." Said a female voice... but Olivia didn't say that. Both females turned to see Jess, with her missing eye, arm, and horrible burned body leaning against the advanced crafting machine.

She's wearing her black cloak, a pair of black pants, and thick medical bandages tightly wrapped around her horribly burned chest. Covering anything inappropriate as her black hair flows down her burned back. "You stole my golem designs," Jess' voice full of rage. "one of the many things you took from me when you tried to kill me..."

"Y-You!" screamed Ellegaard while Olivia was in shock. "How did you get in here?!"

"Simple," Jess nodded at Olivia. "She let me in."

Ellegaard turned to face her former apprentice, ready to yell at her. Only to stop in horror as she saw Olivia's eyes glow a deep red. Jess brought a burnt hand to her chin. "Well, I say 'her' but 'it' is more accurate... right, PAMA?"

A/N: You probably have questions, right? 

Anyways, leave feedback and comments, and be ready for the next chapter! Redstonia's destruction will finally be revealed! Also, thanks for the positive comments, votes, and fan art! I really love the fan art. :)