Manecraft: The End Adventure!

In another settlement, located within a gap in a block mountainside, Steve focused his attention onto another of his wooden work benches that he had constructed, hunching over in order to see the items on its top. The top of the work bench was decorated with nine flat squares, three on top and three on the bottom, with some of the squares occupied by items. On the top three squares were three individual Stone Blocks, one on each square, on the very center square was a Wooden Stick, the rest of the squares were empty.

Steve had in his block had another Stick; he raised it up to put it on the table, a look of concentration on his face as he placed the stick on the bottom middle square. Suddenly all of the items on the work bench surface fused together in but a fraction of a second, becoming another of Steve’s Stone block Pickaxes. Steve picked up his newly made Stone Pickaxe and sighed in regret.

“Ok then,” he started to say to himself, his eyes were sunken down, “Let’s try this, again. Hopefully I can get me some Iron this time.”

Steve turned on his block feet and headed away from his work bench towards a two block tall wooden door, he opened it to revile a pathway leading down into the depths of the mountain, and the walls were lit with torches descending down into the dimly lit tunnel. Steve shut the door behind him and descended; deeper and deeper he went down the tunnel until he came to where he left off. Raising his Pickaxe, he began to mine away at the stone blocks making him go deeper and deeper, collecting every single stone block he mined, and when he reached a certain point he placed another torch on the wall to light up for the next area. Suddenly Steve broke a stone reviling an open area, a cave.

“Oh this is more like it.” Steve said with joy, reasoning his faith. Steve finished mining away at the blocks blocking his entry into the cave and stepped onto the first bit of flat ground, looking around to take inventory of his surroundings. The cave was dark, undiscovered, but not anymore as Steve places several torches on the walls, illuminating the darkness to reveille the stone walls surrounding him, within the wall was a strange looking block, it was colored the same as the stone, but it had small traces of black randomly placed inside.

“Oh great more Coal,” Steve stated, this was apparently good news to him. As he continued to place torches, he came across another strange block, looking exactly like the coal block, but instead of black traces, these were brown colored, the sight of this made Steve’s eyes light up like fire.

“Yes, Iron!” he screamed at the top of his lungs, he had been searching for this for ages. Steve began to mine away at the iron ore blocks like the stone blocks, as it disappeared, absorbed by Steve, he reviled a secondary block of iron ore, which he mined without hesitation, causing him to mine away at the stone blocks in hope that he struck more.

Steve didn’t notice at first, but something was approaching him from behind, it made no noise as it walked towards him, silently and swift it approached, closing the distance between itself and its target within seconds. Steve finished mining around where he found the iron ore, finding an additional three pieced further down from where the first two were found, a big smile came across his face as he turned to head deeper into the cave, he stopped suddenly with eyes light thunder as he saw what stood behind him, a block creature with light green colored skin, its head was the size as a normal block and its body was slightly taller but more slimmer, no sign of any arms but standing on four stumpy feet, it’s face was a simple design, two eyes that were nothing more than small two by two black squares, the rest of its face was formed in the shape of a toothless black colored block like frown.

The creature began to hiss suddenly and glow slightly white, Steve yelled in desperation to escape from what was to happen next, and with that, the green creature exploded, creating a large puff of smoke and destroying many of the stone blocks it stood on and on the wall.

***

It was starting to get darker outside, the bright sun was slowly staring to set, Turing the landscapes many bright colours into a slightly more orange effected picture, night would soon be upon them. The six ponies continued to progress through the wilderness of the block world, they came at this point to more trees, not enough for a forest, Pinkie Pie stopping occasionally to smell the bright flowers that coloured the ground.

Rarity stopped suddenly, hearing a faint sound from underneath when she trotted,

“Did anypony else hear that?” she asked aloud for any of her friends to answer, to which they turned and looked at her for a moment.

“Hear what?” asked Fluttershy.

“That faint thundering noise, sounded like it came from underground.”

“Nope, sorry,” Applejack admitted, “You sure you’re not hearing things?”

“I’m sure I heard something.”

“Fluttershy,” started Rainbow Dash, “Sure it’s not your stomach again?” Fluttershy began to blush out of embarrassment. Twilight then noticed something out in the distance, a land mark; she broke into a gallop as she got closer to get a good view of it.

“Girls, look at this!” Twilight shouted back to her friends who joined her in seconds. They looked across the way to see a tall stone block mountain that reached up into the sky, decorated with dirt blocks on top and buried into the mountain itself.

“A mountain,” stated Rainbow Dash with an unimpressed expression and tone, “Your getting excited, over a mountain.” Twilight looked to her friend with an annoyed look on her face.

“Yes a mountain, but looked there,” Twilight gestures with a hoof that in the mountainside was a hole, a little bit of a climb up but excellent shelter, “We could set up camp in that hole there for the night.” The other ponies looked at one another, each with a different expression or two on their faces, Rarity didn’t like the idea of resting in what she assumed a smelly old cave, Fluttershy was scared of the idea of sleeping in a dark open area like that, Pinkie Pie wasn’t too sure about it either, and Applejack and Rainbow Dash didn’t really give much thought to it, they were fine with it. Twilight could see that they had their doubts about it, she too wasn’t one hundred percent sure on the matter, but the sun was going down, they needed to find somewhere and fast.

“Ok, how about this?” began Twilight, turning to face her friends, “I’ll go up there and make sure it’s safe, if not, we find somewhere else, ok?” She was about to leave when Rainbow Dash flew in front of her, hooves extended to block her way more.

“Woah, woah, woah, wait a minute!” she demanded st she blocked Twilight's path, “You’ve not going up there alone, what if there’s anything up there?” Twilight was surprised with Rainbow Dash, showing so much concern for her.

“Rainbow Dash is right Twilight, you can’t go up there, anything could be in that place.” suggested Applejack. A small smile came to Twilight's face.

“Ok then, so we’ll go up together.” Twilight decided, and started to head out with Rainbow Dash hovering nearby; Pinkie Pie was close by hopping along, but stopped suddenly as they say that Rarity and Fluttershy weren't moving.

“What’s up girls?” asked Pinkie Pie. Fluttershy was cowering behind a close by tree at this point, hiding herself away from the mountainside, poking her head around the block trunk to face her friends.

“I’m sorry Twilight,” Fluttershy began to whimper, “But I have a bad feeling about that place.” Rarity began to shuffle to where Fluttershy was hiding.

“I’d best stay with her, for protection reasons.” Rarity suggested, giving a fake smile, it was obvious she was scared as well; she just didn’t want to show it. Applejack sighed with an unenthusiastic expression on her face and trotted over to Rarity and Fluttershy, turning to face the others.

“You three go on ahead, I’ll stay here and keep an eye on these two.” She said with confidence. Twilight nodded and set off for the hole in the mountain with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie.

The sun had fully set, and the large moon of the world hung in the sky, giving way for the stars to show themselves. The three ponies arrived at the hole in the mountain; it was a climb to get up there, luckily for Rainbow Dash and Twilight they had wings to fly up, even so Pinkie Pie didn’t seem to struggle either, hopping on block after block, trying to climb higher to the hole. Once they reached the top, Rainbow Dash noticed that there was a light coming from the hole.

“Hey look,” she said gesturing towards the dim glow, she turned her head to Twilight in the air, “What you think that is?” Twilight looked slightly concerned.

“I don’t know, “she admitted without trying to hide it, “But whatever it is, be best not make too much noise on the way up.” All three of the ponies reached the hole and looked inside, there wasn’t much to looked at, just two block shaped torches attached to the wall, lighting up the inside, showing the hole was in fact a small cave, with the far end of it covered up by crudely constructed stone, each block having many cracks in them, on the side of the wall with the torches was a two block wide wooden box, next it that was some form of wooden table and a strange looking oven, also there was a two block long bed near the rear of the cave, on the other side other the cave was a solid grey block wall with a two block high wooden door inserted.

“What is all this?” asked Pinkie Pie as she whispered to her friends next to her.

“Looks like a camp.” answered Twilight.

“Yeah, but for what?” questioned Rainbow Dash is a panic. All three of the ponies stared at this strange looking layout, what was any of this.

Suddenly, the wooden door burst open on its hinges, making the ponies retread behind the mountains thick wall to conceal them. Twilight poked her head round a little to see, followed by Rainbow Dash on top and Pinkie Pie in the middle, through the door emerged a strange block creature, dark brown hair and a light blue shirt with blue jeans and grey shoes, it stumbled a little towards the wooden box, closing the door behind him.

“What is that thing Twilight?” whimpered Rainbow Dash; she was scared, as were the others.

“I don’t know.” Twilight replied, shivering with fear. They watched the block creature limping over to box and open it.

“Darn Creepers,” said the block creature with a grunt, “Notch only knows how they came into being.” The creature seemed to be placing items into the box, a collection of different stone blocks, some of them had hit of brown coloring in them, afterwards it pulled out some form of brown colored object, and it looked like it had been cooked in some way, the creature then walked towards it’s bed at the back of the cave, chewing on the brown object in its block hand, so it was some form of food, after a few bites, the creature seemed a bit more springy, it’s energy had been restored.

Pinkie Pie lost her balance on the rock she was stranding on and fell with a thumping noise onto the cave surface, Twilight and Rainbow Dash gasped in shock and fear, the impact also caught the attention of the creature, who span round to see what was there.

Lying on the floor before Steve was a small pink colored baby horse with a pink mane; its eyes were closed as it rubbed its chin in pain from the impact.

“Hu, a Horse?” he questioned as it lay in front of him, rubbing the top of his head with his block hand, “What’s it doing so far away from the Plains, and how did it even get up here?” Steve had many questions. The pink creature looked at him with panic in its eyes, Steve saw it was frightened; he approached slowly with an outreached block hand showing he meant no harm to it.

“It’s ok little guy,” Steve said in a slightly sounding baby voice, “I’m not going to hurt you.” The pink creature’s expression changed to a look of nauseous confusion, like it didn’t understand what Steve was talking about, it began to raise itself to stand on it four legs but continues to stare at him.

“What do ya mean ‘little guy’, I’m not a guy.” Pinkie Pie exploded loudly. The sudden outburst caused the block creature to back away in shock a bit at the sound of her speaking.

“Wait! You... You can talk?” questioned the creature, open mouthed and speechless.

“Well duh, of course I can talk,” Pinkie replied back to creature, “I’ve always been able to talk. I don’t remember when I started but that was a long time ago, probably when I was a little filly.” Pinkie Pie began to smile at the creature, she had lost all her fright, seeming to pass it on to the creature in front of her.

“But this is impossible, how can you talk?” the creature continued to question, its arms outstretched in gesture to both of them pointing to Pinkie Pie, “None of the other Horses in this world talk, how can you? Also, you’re pink, why or how are you pink?” the creatures voice began to get slightly squeaky from the shock of it all near the end of his questioning. Pinkie Pie closed her eyes and placed a hoof on her face as she gently shook it side to side, a way they showed she wasn’t impressed with the creatures lacking knowledge of how a pony looks.

“First off,” Pinkie Pie began, “I’m a pony, secondly, all ponies can talk, duh, lastly, I don’t know why I’m pink really. My dad’s brown/ orange and my mom’s white/grey, do they make pink if you mix them together? I don’t know, I guess not because my sisters are light grey and light purple. So yeah I don’t know.” The block creature just stared aimlessly at Pinkie Pie for a few seconds; it didn’t know what to say.

The creature looked behind the pink pony and noticed something behind the wall, two sets of eyes pocking around to see what was going on.

“Hu?” was the creature’s response. Pinkie Pie turned her head to see what caught the block creature’s attention; she saw it was Rainbow Dash and Twilight still looking into the cave.

“Its ok girls you can come on in, he seems nice.” Pinkie Pie said with a jolly tone, a smile soon following.

Steve watched as another two small ponies walked into his cave, now he was even more confused than ever. The one of them was a cerulean colour with purple eyes and rainbow colored hair and tail, it seemed to have wings sprouting out of its side, the second was violet colored with a dark purple hair and tail with two lines of hair a different colour on both, one was purple the other was crimson, it also had wings but with the addition of something projecting out of the forehead, a horn of some kind.

“What the... there’s more of them?” Steve asked in surprise, one small talking creature with a stranger than average colour was one thing, but three, even thought the other two hadn’t spoken yet he assumed as much since the pink one was talking to them.

“Sorry for the inconvenience sir.” the violet once apologized, her eyes were a sad look.

“Yeah sorry.” agreed the cerulean pony, her eyes mirroring her violet companion. Holding his head in his block hand, Steve closed his eyes and walked around his cave for about seven seconds before coming back to the three ponies, he gave out a relaxing sigh to calm himself down before speaking.

“Ok... let’s start again shall we?” suggested Steve, “Who are all of you and how did you get here?”

Twilight readied herself to speak but was interrupted by Pinkie Pie.

“Well we were helping out Twilight in the library move some books, Fluttershy was carrying a few away when one fell on Twilight’s head, we opened it up and there was some really, really funny shapes in the book,” Pinkie Pie gave out a short giggle, “Then it started to glow and started to suck Twilight into the book,” Pinkie Pie whizzed over to the back of Twilight as she was facing forwards, Pinkie Pie then grabbed hold of Twilight’s ankle and held her leg up, causing Twilight to have a hollowed blank expression on her face with shrunken eyes as her friend posed her where she stood, she then bean to blush. “Me and Fluttershy held this leg,” she let go of Twilight’s leg, letting it fall back to the ground, in the split of a second Pinkie Pie grabbed hold of the end of Twilight’s tail in her teeth and pulled it hard, causing Twilights face to change to a shocked surprise, as her friend yanked at her rear, she began to blush in embarrassment. “While Rainbow Dash pulled on her tail like this,” Pinkie Pie continues with teeth full. She let go of Twilight’s tail, causing Twilight to get whiplash from its release, striking her rear and Twilight yelped a little in pain. “But that wasn’t enough to stop us from getting sucked into the book, when we woke up, we were here.” Pinkie Pie finally finished with a grin and a squeaking noise. Throughout that explanation, Rainbow Dash stood back and watched the madness unfold, the whole time with a confused look on her face, not understanding what she just say.

The block creature stared at Pinkie pie with half opened eyes and a deadpan expression.

“None of what you just said made any sense whatsoever nor did it help me in any way understand what the block you’re supposed to be.” he said with hardly any effort put into his expression, possible he became confused of bored half way through.

“Seriously Pinkie, I was with you the whole time and even I didn’t understand what you just said.” confessed Rainbow Dash with a look of irritation. Twilight was also looking at her a little irritated, possible for the other reason though.

“Wait,” began the block creature, “Her name is Pinkie? And she’s pink?”

“Well yeah, she lives up to her name,” Rainbow Dash answered, “In more ways than one.” The block creature looked at them all in weird expectance; to think that a pink pony named Pinkie was normal to them worried him. Twilight saw that she had to break the tension a little to calm down the situation.

“Sorry about that,” Twilight apologized, “I’m Twilight Sparkle.”

“Princess Twilight Sparkle!” interjected Pinkie Pie, trying to remind her friend who she was; all she got was a stern look of disapproval.

“This is Rainbow Dash,” she said gesturing to her friend, who replied with a confident and moderate smile, as if saying, that’s my name so remember it, “And this is Pinkie Pie,” Pinkie Pie reacted with a giddy smile of joy. The block creature seemed less confused now, but unsure as to why.

“So let me see if I’ve got this right,” he started to plan out his words carefully, “You’re all ponies?”

“Yep.” Pinkie Pie answered.

“You speck.”

“Uh hu.” Rainbow Dash commented.

“The two of you have wings, so you can fly right?”

“More or less, yes” corrected Twilight.

“And you’re a Princess because you have wings and a horn on your head.”

“I guess, yeah.”

“And you all have obvious names that can easily distinguish who all of you are.” Rainbow Dash looked at him confused, then looked at Twilight for confirmation.

“Distin-” she began, but Twilight was quick enough to answer before she finished the word.

“It means to tell us all apart.” She said.

“Oh ok,” Rainbow Dash replied to say she understood now, “Then yeah, that too.” The block creature stared at them for a while, trying to make sense of it all.

“Ok that Creeper must of hit me harder than I thought,” he began to babble to himself, “either that and I’m dead, or this is really happening.”

“I know this is a bit strange,” Twilight said trying to clear up the many questions in his head, “But we are real.” The creature gave a sigh of defeat as he realized that what the violet pony was saying must be true, coming to terms with the situation.

“Oh boy, the things I get myself into,” he said as he wiped a block hand down his face, “Well Princess, nice to meet you I guess.” He offered out one of his block hands as a token of good will, it came down to Twilight’s eye level, seeing this she raised a hoof level and shook them in a friendly greeting.

“Just Twilight’s fine.” Twilight suggested, she didn’t care for formalities.

“Name’s Steve,” said the block creature, they finished shacking in whatever fashion you could name it as Steve moved to the open end of the cave where Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were standing, he turned to face the three ponies and pointed out to the block landscape, “Welcome to Overworld.”

“Ooh, so this world is called ‘Overworld’ that makes sense.” Twilight said in a tone of realization.

“Why’s that?” Steve asked.