Mine Their Way Out

Mine Their Way Out

Chapter 3: Reading up on Some History

Joystick felt like he was going to blow a fuse if twilight kept on asking him questions.

“Minecraftia?!” She yelled. “What the hay is Minecraftia?! Why did my spell send me here?! What connection does this place have to Canterlot High?! Why-”

“TWILIGHT!!” Joystick yelled causing Twilight to go quiet and look at him. “Sorry to yell Twilight but i needed to get your attention, and besides i’m sorry to say I that i don’t know how to answer any of your questions.”

He gave her a sad look and she sighed calming herself down “Sorry, I’m just confused as to what brought me here” She said. “By the way, how come you don’t know about this place, don’t you live here?”

Joystick gave a sheepish grin “well, not really” He said rubbing his head “You see, I was born in Equestria and-” He was interrupted by twilight “YOU WHERE?!!” Joystick shot her a look which made her shrink “hehe… Sorry about that.. Continue” She said Sheepishly. “well anyways” Joystick Continued “I was born in Manehattan. I had a pretty good life, and as you can see from my cutie mark, I’m a gamer” He looked over to the mark on his flank, an NES controller.

“So how did you get here?” Twilight asked.

“I was just getting to that” He said. “Anyways, all was good up until about 5 years ago. I went up to Cantelot to meet up with a friend of mine, she was in some high magic school or something and wanted me to help her with a new spell she had been trying to learn. I don’t know what the spell was but when she tried it on me, i was blinded for a few seconds and when i regained my vision, well… I ended up here” He looked at Twilight who looked surprised by his story.

“How did you survive here?” She asked him.

“Well at first I focused on trying to find my way back home” He explained “but then i found it pointless and decided to start learning about this place, I ate what the land had to offer and I built this very house, how you might ask, well i learned that this place has its own form of magic, it’s sort of weird and every living creature here can use it, even I learned to use it somewhat” Twilight was dumbfounded by this.

“But your a pegasus, how can you use magic?” The young Alicorn asked.

“I don’t really know” Joystick answered with a look of embarrassment “I just… Use it, I learned by just… Doing it. It’s very different from Unicorn magic that’s for sure, and it seems to respond to the user in multiple ways, and that’s about all I know”

Twilight was beyond confused as she tried to wrap her head around all this “This all seems very interesting” She said as she thought.

“I guess, OH WAIT!” Joystick said remembering something else “There is one more thing… This place is peaceful during the day… But going out at night is something else”

Twilight gulped and seemed to be shaken up a bit by the news “W-what do you mean?” She asked.

“Well you see… At night dangerous creatures come out… more dangerous than the Everfree forest itself” He looked at Twilight who was looking to her sides.

“What type of creatures?” She asked nervously

“Well, this might sound crazy but… Zombies, spiders beyond normal size, skeletons, and these weird green things” Joystick looked at Twilight waiting for a reaction but she only stared at him.

“This all sounds very far fetched” She said “However, since i don’t know anything about this world i’ll take your word for it, but if this is true I don’t wanna be here much longer, maybe I can find a way back”

“Haha, well good luck with that Twi” Joystick said with a chuckle.

“Do you know any place where I can learn more about this world?” Twilight asked “I need to know if there is someplace around here where the so called magic of this world is strongest”

Joystick thought for a second “hmmm… I don’t think so, maybe one of the books downstairs can help” he said.

Twilight Jumped up at the mention of her favorite inanimate objects “BOOKS?! YOU HAVE BOOKS?!” She yelled, getting extremely close to Joysticks face.

The pegasus blushed “umm.. Yeah.. They are in a shelf downstairs, now can you please back up a bit” He answered.

Twilight noticed how close she was to him and blushed a bit “oh ummm, sorry” She said backing up slowly and looking down. Joystick felt a bit hot and changed the subject “So yeah, books downstairs, shall i lead the way?” He said.

“Yes please” Twilight said avoiding looking at him.

Joystick opened the door and let Twilight exit first then exited the room himself closing the door behind him. “It’s this way” He said taking the lead. He led Twilight down a flight of stairs and twilight stared in awe at how roomy his house was.

“Wow this place is amazing, and great decor too, you really did do an amazing job building and decorating this place” She said. Joystick smiled at the comment “It was nothing I got a bit of help from the magic in this place” He said “Speaking of which, why do you need to know where magic is stronger here?” He asked as they entered another room.

“Well with my horn in this condition, I can’t cast spells properly without some form of other magical help, and since you’re a pegasus, you don’t have magic so you can’t help” Her answer made Joystick frown a bit. Twilight realized what she had said wrong. “Oh no, no! I didn’t mean it that way! I just meant that well.. Ugh! I’m so sorry I-” She was cut off by Joystick turning around to look at her.

“It’s alright” He said “I get what you mean, trust me it’s fine.” Twilight looked at him and brought him into a hug which shocked him a bit. “Still, i didn’t mean to make you think you’re useless, you helped me recover after all” She said. Joystick hugged her back and smiled “No problem Twilight” He said.

After about a minute they separated and Joystick continued leading the way. They entered a small room that was filled with books on shelf and a black pedestal with a floating book on it.

Twilight felt like she was back home in her library “So many books!” She squealed “Oh my gosh i have so much reading to do!” Joystick chuckled and picked out a book from the shelf and handed it to Twilight.

“What’s this?” Twilight asked. Joystick pointed at the Title “If you wanna learn about this place I suggest you start with this one” He said “The Complete History of Minecraftia, this is what taught me some of the things I know, i never finished it though, I got up to the third chapter and kind of got bored and quit”

Twilight shot him a look and turned to the book “Thank you, this should do fine” She said.

“No problem, tell me what you learned when you finished” he said as he started walking out.

On his way out he looked back at Twilight and noticed something that made him go wide eyed “Twilight!” he said shocked.

“What? What is it?” She asked looking at the book.

“Why do you have those?” He asked.

“Have what?” She asked now a little irritated.

“You… You have wings?!” He said.

Twilight stumbled to stand up and turned to face him “oh! umm.. Those, well, umm” She was struggling with her words. She was trying to keep it a secret by having them folded but that blew up in her face “Well… Ugh, no point in hiding it then” She sighed.

“Hiding what?” He asked suspiciously.

“Well you see… I’m Equestrias newest princess… I was coronated a few months ago”

Joystick stared at Twilight wide eyed “You’re what?! But i thought there was only Celestia!” The pegasus said surprised. “What else has changed?!”

Twilight sighed and started telling Joystick everything that had happened since she moved to Ponyville, from the return of Princess Luna, to the reformation of discord, even her coronation. By the end Joystick was left dumbfounded, trying to wrap his head around all this.

“Let me get this straight” he said “You’re an Element of Harmony? But i thought those things were just an old poniestale”

“Many ponies did” Twilight said unfolding her wings “but when my friends and I defeated nightmare moon everypony knew our name and that the Elements weren’t just a silly story”

Joystick nodded in understanding “alright seems believable enough” He said with a shrug “well anyways, you can start your reading”

Twilight set her attention on the book and Joystick exited the room to leave her to her peace.

3 hours later

Joystick walked into the room and peeked in to find the young Alicorn was setting down the book and decided to walk in “You finished already?” He asked amazed at how fast she read.

“Oh, yeah, it wasn’t anything” She answered blushing “Anyways where were you?”

“Nowhere, I was in the kitchen making dinner” He answered.

“Oh ok” She said “Well I learned amazing things about this place, also some of the dangerous things, and that green thing you talked about earlier could be what is called a Creeper in this world”

“Well that’s… Actually it’s a fitting name, those things give me the creeps” Joystick said with a shudder. “What else?”

“Well according to the book” Twilight started “This world was created by a great God named Notch who cultivated the land and made the creatures, however other creatures were created on their own, those are the monsters of this world. Notch never expected this so he created great warriors to combat them, these warriors were the gods Husky, Deadlox, Jerome and the great budder warrior, Sky”

Joystick looked at Twilight intently “Woah… That’s some pretty serious stuff, so are these gods still alive?” He said.

“I’m not done, listen” She said giving him a look “Now. The gods battle the monsters and keep them in control, the ones that wander the world out here are the ones that made it out of their clutches. The one creature that only Sky and his powers of budder can vanquish is the Squids of this world”

“Woah, I never thought those things could be so dangerous, i usually just pass by them” Joystick said shrugging “Anyways is that it?”

Twilight nodded no “Not really, this part is the most important part of the book so listen carefully” The change in Twilights tone caused a little worry in Joystick “This isn’t the only world in this realm, there are more dangerous planes of reality in this very dimension. The Nether, a pit of never-ending fire, where the most dangerous creatures beyond the power of any of the monsters here..” Twilight paused before continuing seeing as Joy was getting worried “And finally… The most dangerous and the magic central of this world, and unfortunately the place I need to go to if I want to get home… The End… A place swarmed with dangerous creatures called Endermen, and the most powerful creature this world has to show…. The Ender Dragon”

Joystick looked at Twilight with fear in his eyes “wow… to think I knew nothing of these things even though i’ve been here for years” He said shuddering. “What does it say about the dragon?”

“Not much” Twilight said “Just that its power matches that of the great Minecraftian gods”

Joystick gulped and showed fear “I-I can’t believe it” He said “I thought there was nothing stronger than the creatures I face each night… It’s spooky knowing there are more powerful ones…” Twilight noticed Joysticks worry and tried to change the subject “Anyways, what did you cook?” She asked.

Joystick snapped out of his trance and looked at her “Oh, well i just made some bread a harvested a few apples and made some pumpkin pie” He said smiling.

Twilight smiled “Great, come on i’m starving!” She said pulling Joystick and dragging him to the kitchen.

“Calm down Twi” He said “I’ll serve yours first” He chuckled a bit as Twilight let him go.

Joystick gave her a slice of pie 3 pieces of bread and an apple. “Eat up” He said “We need to get fueled up… Night is approaching and I need to teach you how to defend yourself here”

Twilight looked at him in confusion “What do you mean?” She asked.

“You’ll find out when the sun sets” Joystick said with a devious grin.