Jesse's POV

"Cassie!?" We all exclaimed in unison.

"How did you get here first?" Petra demanded, sword drawn and poised to strike.

"You seriously didn't think that with a former Admin and the revived Witherstorm and PAMA on my side, I wouldn't get here before you?" Cassie chuckled deviously.

"Then, what's stopping you?" I asked and Cassie laughed maniacally before putting her hands behind her back and strutting back and forth in front of the console while monologuing.

"You see, I knew that if you all knew that I would need two successors of Notch and Herobrine's powers in order to fully acquire all the powers, and more, of an Admin, then you would've fought back and I never would've been able to bring you both here without a resistance that could've led to the downfall of my plan." Cassie spun around to face the team before continuing, "So I lured you all here based on the fact that you all have to be the 'heroes' and would stop at nothing to stop me from accessing this." Cassie motioned to the console of glowing patterns made up of levers and buttons in front of a screen similar to PAMA's old system that read,

Awaiting command input... along with a long string of numbers and uppercase letters following it.

"She tricked us into following her here willingly." I realized out loud and everyone either gasped in shock or sharply growled in frustration.

"Tricked or no, we're still taking you down..." Petra snapped and we all rushed at her, weapons readied to fight, but Cassie slammed her hand down on a button and the same glowing vines that were around the door to the maze rose up from the ground and ensnared us tightly while pulling our weapons away from our grasps.

"Come come, resistance isn't useful." Cassie stated as one eye glowed red and the other glowed purple as she smirked at us.

"What the-?" J exclaimed on everyone's behalf before they realized that she had taken the abilities of the Wither Hoverer and PAMA for herself, in addition to taking the power of an Admin.

"What did you do to Reuben, Lluna, and Benedict?" I demanded to know.

"And Romeo!" Xara yelled as she struggled against the vines holding her in place.

"Don't you worry your pretty little heads about them, they're right here." Cassie stepped aside to reveal the forms of a white llama curling protectively around a pig and a chicken while Romeo was on his back right next to them with a hand laying over the animals.

"No...!" I choked out with tears burning in my eyes at the horrifying thought that popped into my head.

"Oh relax, they're not dead, just drained." Cassie gestured to a glass tube on the side of the console and, inside of it, was purple and black lights swirling around, like when Addie had first turned the animals into human forms.

"What is that stuff?" J questioned.

"It's the code that had been infused into your pets when they were turned into children." Xara realized.

"You're very perceptive." Cassie complimented and Xara growled in response, "With it, I was able to power up the main controls and, with a former Admin's identity in use, I can now make myself even more powerful than Notch and Herobrine themselves, with the powers of their successors added in with the manipulated code, of course." Cassie flicked another lever on the panel and the screen lit up.

Immediately, I felt a burning sensation in my head and J and I both cried out in pain as the vines that were restraining us turned golden yellow and burnt purple and only added to the power that was already swirling around in the glass chamber.

"You won't be able to handle all of that power!" Lukas yelled out to Cassie in warning and she just glared at him through half-opened eyelids.

"I'm handling the powers of both the former Witherstorm and PAMA, this'll be a cinch." Cassie flipped another lever and pressed a few buttons, activating the Admin controls and shifting it to her as some sticky pistons opened up the glass chamber. As she did, Romeo and Xara winced as they felt the shift in admin power heading straight toward Cassie.

With a burst of light, Cassie's appearance had changed and she, now, wore a navy blue robe with red accents similar to Romeo's former attire, with pale blue skin, and red eyes with black pupils. She floated in midair as he hands blazed with purple and golden sparks.

"She's done it..." I whispered to myself and Cassie turned her attention to me and hovered over to me, looking me dead in the eyes.

"Yes and now that you are all completely useless to stop me, I can finally revive my precious Winslow." Cassie floated over to me before continuing, "You were the death of him when you left me at the bottom of that pit with those endermites and refused to give him to me."

"Cassie, please listen to me. We did free you and we returned you back to your home world with Winslow, something made your memories alter." I tried to explain to Cassie as she came closer to me, but she cut me off from saying anything else by holding her hand up, lifting me, and the vines, up into the air with her.

"You did this to yourself and your friends. You pick the wrong battles to win and the wrong people to save." Cassie emphasized her point when she snatched Addie's bracelet off my arm and tossed it toward the console as she threw me back down to the ground with the vines still trapping my arms and legs in place.

"Sis, are you OK?" J whispered to me and I nodded in response as Cassie went over to the console and started inputting another long string of commands through numbers and symbols, finishing with a stone button glowing green.

"Now to bring my Winslow back." Cassie slammed her hand down on the green button and we all braced ourselves in case something went wrong.

A small shadow became silhouetted in the glass chamber as a small orange, black, and white cat with green eyes materialized, shook itself off, and started cleaning his paws like nothing had happened.

"Winslow!" Cassie floated over to the cat and threw her arms around him, "Mommy's here..."

As Cassie cried a bit from her reunion with her beloved cat, she didn't notice that Addie's bracelet was clinking on the floor and rolled itself over to the glass chamber as another silhouette appeared inside.

"What?"

"It can't be..."

"How?"

We all were whispering various things as the shadow emerged from the chamber.

"Hi guys, miss me?"

1156 Words

AN- Hi Y'all, sorry I've been a bit inactive on here, but I hope this chapter makes up for the absence 😁