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The little pig jumped, bravely, towards his master, who was caught in the throes of the great monstrous Witherstorm, delivering the Command Block Weapon like his life depended on it.
Well, it did.
Or more like it was fetch, like in the good ol’ days.
Jesse reached out, and like a pitcher catching a ball right in the mitten he caught Reuben’s hoof.
"Reuben! You did it!" cheered Jesse, holding on to the brave pig whilst swinging around. Taking the Command Block Weapon, a diamond axe with special enchantments, Jesse declared, "Alright, time to end this thing, once and for—"
Suddenly the Witherstorm head inside the storm’s interior managed to bite onto our little pink hero! Reuben was powerless; caught between the literal jaws of death and the desperate grip of his master.
"Reuben! Hold on, hold on buddy!"
But with an almighty yank, the Witherstorm head pulled Reuben away from Jesse’s tight grip. The pig, suddenly finding himself in mid air since the jaws had let go, squealed in terror as he fell through a hole in the Witherstorm’s interior.
"REUBEN!!! NOOOO!!!!!" screamed a horrified Jesse, unable to believe his dear pet had been torn away from him.
With the most enraged battle cry he could muster, Jesse swung wildly, hitting the Command Block for the final time, smashing it to bits.
Forever.
The Witherstorm became lifeless, its tentacles and head drooping, releasing their deadly grip on Jesse, who too fell through the hole.
But fate was more cruel to Reuben than it was to Jesse. Jesse fell into water, while Reuben was smashed by a tentacle outside the Witherstorm, further battering his already injured body. The little piglet ended up landing at the foot of the statue of Gabriel the Warrior—a hard landing, and one that spelled doom for the pig.
After reuniting with his sister Jessica and friends Axel, Olivia and Petra (who now remembered everything, having been cured of her amnesia), the group heard the pained grunts of a little pig.
They ran over to find the mortally wounded Reuben at the foot of the statue of Gabriel the Warrior, gasping at the sight.
"Oh no…" muttered Olivia.
"You’re a hero Reuben, you know that?" said Jessica, very sadly. The little pig was unable to respond well.
Reuben started straining, trying to get up, trying to act as if everything was fine, but collapsed on the floor. Involuntarily, the gang reacted with shock.
"Don’t do this to us, please Reuben," pleaded Axel.
"We need you, boy," added Jessica.
But the little pig’s heart was starting to slow down, unable to do anything about the mortal wounds that had been inflicted. As Reuben slipped further away from consciousness, it dawned on them.
Reuben was going to die.
"It’s okay, buddy. We’re here for you," Jesse reassured the slowly dying pig.
"Your friends are here Reuben. We will remember you," added Petra.
"Everyone will. I’ll make sure of that," promised Lukas.
Slowly, the little pig’s grunts became ever so quieter, until, finally, the little pig closed his eyes and slumped to the ground.
The gang flinched; Reuben was gone. Now he was just another raw pork chop.
But he was more than a butcher’s best cut.
"I…I’m so sorry Jesse," said Lukas.
"He was a great pig," said Petra, patting the young brunette male.
Jesse slowly picked up Reuben’s corpse in his own hands; his friend was gone.
The gang couldn’t help it; they all almost immediately started crying.
As they gathered there, mourning the loss of their pig, they were joined by recovered individuals from the Witherstorm’s wake, unsure of what they were seeing.
But what they would soon learn was that one insanely brave pig had saved them all.
Weeks later, Reuben would get a monument in the newly founded city of Beacontown, where the New Order of the Stone—Jesse, Jessica, Petra, Olivia and Axel—would be based out of.
And Jesse, promising to help everyone remember Reuben, declared that Reuben had saved everyone.
"To Reuben!"
And the crowd cheered for the bravest pig in the world. He would be remembered, forever, as the best pig to have ever graced the lands of Minecraftia.