#by:crown

1. Evacuation

Act 2 opens with Jay teleporting back into Judge’s room, with Max attempting to move the barricade blocking the door due to the fire. Jay asks Max to hold on to the pets before teleporting, however, Max asks them about Arrow - his pet rat. Jay mentions that they hadn’t found Arrow yet, but they’ll have to go back out and look for them.

Max and Jay teleport out of the room with the rest of the pets, ending up outside near the forest’s edge where Jay had taken Baroness and Jack. Max warns Jay about overexerting themselves, but they tell Max that they don’t have a choice since they can teleport people to safety. He then makes Jay promise not to go back into the burning mansion, and in a tender moment, he tells Jay that he loves them like a brother. Jay tells him that they love Max too, and to head to Mona’s House.

Jay then teleports deeper into the forest, looking for Empress. They locate Empress on the ground, bleeding from the stump of their broken off antler. Empress isn’t moving, which causes Jay to become emotional, until they hear breathing. 

Jay picks Empress up off the ground and promises to teleport them away, acknowledging that they had thought that Empress had died. Empress promises Jay that they “ain’t dying yet.” When Jay tries to maneuver the fallen Dreamon to get ready to teleport them, Arrow pokes their head out of Empress’ jacket! Finally, Jay teleports Empress and Arrow further into the forest and out of the camera’s view.

2. King takes flight

Meanwhile, the shifters rush through the burning mansion, darting from room-to-room trying to save as many of the family’s important items they can from burning up in the inferno. They also check the rooms to make sure that no one else is trapped inside.

They enter Knight’s room, and shut the door behind them, looking for anything that was worth saving of King’s brother and Mona’s best friend. However, the gasoline and smoke choke King, disorienting her. She’s trying to decide what to grab, when Mona tells her to take the photos from Knight’s wall and get to the window.

King proceeds to grab as many of Knight’s photos as she can from above the bed. As she struggles to think about how she’s going to escape due to the dizzying smoke, Mona helps her focus, and asks King about what form she knows best to shift into. King replies that she studied birds, wings, feathers, and flight, and after Mona urges her, King takes flight out of the window!

3. Loss

Outside, an exhausted Jay looks for some other way to help as the mansion burns. They spot Donti, sparring with a Dreamon hunter holding a scythe and chain. Jay panics, running to protect their friend Donti, when the hunter hits Jay in the stomach with the scythe. As Jay pleads for Donti to run, the Enderman disappears in a puff of smoke.

Donti quickly kills the attacking hunter, and falls to the ground in shock. Empress then enters the scene, looking for Judge, and accuses Donti of killing them, saying “....all of you fucking hosts are the same.”

Donti insists that they did not kill Judge, and that it was in fact Jay that died. Donti tells Empress to either fight for the family or leave, and then Donti makes their way back into the battle again.

4. Ascent

With Judge now gone, Viscount realizes that he can no longer fight. Suddenly, a mysterious form flies out from the trees, which is Ethan, wielding an axe. Ethan swings his axe at the hunters approaching Viscount, and then grabs him and takes him away from the fray. Soon, he disappears back into the night.

5. The End?

As the fighting begins to wind down, Crown teleports outside to attempt to sneak away from the chaos. However, he’s quickly caught by the Dreamon hunters, led by Koko. Crown attempts to plead for his life by allowing Ranboo to take control, but Tubbo insists that Koko continue.

Koko exorcizes Crown from Ranboo, leaving both Ranboo and Crown severely injured. As they work to stabilize Ranboo, they realize that Fetch is dead as they watch the rest of the mansion finally collapse from the flames. The Dreamon hunters leave the premises, their hunt complete.

6. The End.

Jester, overcome with grief and rage, taunts Crown for not doing anything to stop doomsday. Crown appears to not care, making Jester more angry. Jester kills Crown, and takes all of the court’s “strings”, the connectors that make them loyal to Crown.

1. Viscount sounds the alarm.

After dealing with a Dreamon hunter that wandered near the mineshaft, Llyr sends a text to Viscount warning him of the impending attack. He goes to warn Baroness, Jester, King and Crown, who are discussion how to act based on the warning via Tumblr on Saturday.

After Viscount informs them of the threat, Baroness reveals the existence of the outside cameras and provides comms to Jester and King while she watches from her room. Crown reveals a room with armour and weapons and everyone heads of where they are needed.

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In the family group chat, the Court goes to act on a "Plan A". Jay teleports Countess to Mona's house to keep her safe, promising her to keep Viscount safe. He and Judge split, Jay to protect the other mansion residents and Judge to join the fight.

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2. Max and Fetch have a chat.

As the battle starts, Max meets Fetch, who attempts to talk Max into joining the hunters, claiming that they could "help him" and "free him". After Max and Page ultimately decide against it, Fetch tries to gain information on where Crown may be hiding. Again, met with resistance, Fetch goes off to find Jester, claiming that he'll know where Crown is. Max and Page rush into the mansion and to their room.

Meanwhile, Judge and Viscount begin fighting an onslaugt of hunters, seeming to work well as a team against the threat despite the injuries between the two.

Returning to Max and Page, they are packing belongings up in their room as Jay appears, searching for family members to assist. They decide the safest place in the mansion would be Jay's room and, after a small disagreement about Max's missing pet rat, head there and barricade the door.

Jay leaves Max in the room to pick up the Court's various pets and brings them back to Max for safe-keeping. Jay then disappears again to find Empress.

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3. Flirting with Death.

Empress faces off with a hunter outside, they trade blows pretty easily and argue while they fight.

The hunter (Stacia) is hit badly by Empress which causes her to separate from her dreamon (Jessica). The two fight side by side with each other against Empress. Empress still manages to hold his own well against the two before Empress is pinned by Stacia who holds him by the antler. As the fight escalates, this leads to Stacia breaking off Empress's antler.

In the end, Empress manages to down the hunter, but he, too, has fallen.

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4. Watership down.

Jester and Koko have a little one on one brawl, throwing insults and blows alike as they fight. It's a close fight but eventually Jester deals a harsh blow and Koko escapes.

Soon after, Baroness informs him that the hunters are about to infiltrate the mansion and he runs off.

We also see Judge and Viscount continuing to work together as they fight, but we see Viscount growing tired as the battle wears on him.

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5. Baroness gets cornered.

Baroness is watching the cameras when she sees the hunters approaching the mansion with gas cannisters. She informs Jester and King before the comms are cut.

Fetch is the first (and seemingly only) hunter inside as he makes his way through the mansion, checking rooms and pouring gasoline. He encounters Baroness in her room. They talk, Baroness pleading for him to stop and Fetch monologues about what Crown put him through, becoming progressively more hostile against Baroness's attempts to reason with him. He begins to demand to know where Crown is and eventually douses her in gasoline to attempt to scare her into telling him.

Jack barges in, tackling Fetch to the ground. They fight and banter until Fetch eventually leaves, telling Koko over the hunters comms to "start torching". Baroness and Jack discuss how to escape when Jay appears in the room. He teleports them into the forest, before hurrying to save Max and the pets from the burning mansion.

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6. Light it up.

As Jester is heading in to the mansion, Fetch is coming out and the two end up on the front porch together and face off. They talk, Jester trying to understand why Fetch would encourage this attack but is just met by pure violence.