Chapters Chapter One: Intoducing The Admin
Hi my names Admin or you can call me by my last name Walker. Depends on whoever you ask. Anyway, I’m 19 years old blue eyes, dirty blond hair around 6 feet tall, pretty slender for my age. And, well, I like MLP and MineCraft.
To me it was just another average Tuesday, go to school, get home, play MineCraft. You know the usual. Well, something strange happened when I logged in to my personal server. I was just doing a check-up before letting some people on and when I looked at the coding, there was a glitch. And I think I saw something.... I don’t know what it was but I wrote it off as Mojang doing some technical thing with the systems.
I got up and walked into my kitchen to grab a drink and a bite to eat before heading back into my room to continue maintenance on the server. Looking around my room you would never really guess I was a Brony until you saw my desktop background and my desk. I had a little Luna plush on my desk hanging from the top of the screen, it made it look like it was staring into the computer. And my background was a picture of the two princesses’ cutie marks.
Sitting back down at the computer I pulled up the server files and noticed someone had hoped on. Checking the logs I found it was my friend.
Server>Hey mike. What’s up?
Mike>Not much you?
Server>I’m running maintenance on the server.
Mike>Oh.... Want me to hop off?
Server>Nah you aren’t doing any harm to the server by being on.
Mike>Ok! I’m going to build my castle. Chat with ya later!
And with that I saw one of the commands activate, looking at the teleportation command I saw that he was headed in the right direction. Hmmmm, well at least I’ll have someone to chat to later, if I get bored.
Yawning, I moved some documents around and started on the coding and plugins for the server. Well, everything looks in order. After a couple of minutes I go back to checking the coding for the server, again I see the glitch. Looking closely I see an image inside the codes. It looked like..... Suddenly an Blinding flash of light and a ungodly screech came from my computer; it felt like an assault on my ears and eyes. I quickly closed my eyes and waited for it to pass, after a couple of minutes I opened the server chat
Server>Mike? Did you experience any lag or did anything weird happen?
Mike>Nope! Well.... Dinners ready cya mate!
<Mike has logged out
My hands flew across the keyboards as the bright light dulled down a loud hum began to fill the room, after a debug, an anti-virus scan and a redo of the entire plugin for the seven players on the server the humming stopped.
Reaching a hand to my brow I wiped some sweat away and drank my drink. “Jesus that was too close, almost lost the entire server.” I opened Skype on another screen connected to my computer.
Walker: Hey Mike I think I fixed it, still no clue what that was....
Mike: Well you can always take a look at the coding and plugin logs. See what that turns up.....
The logs! Opening another window onto the 4 screened computer station; I opened the code logs and scrolled up. What I saw their baffled me. That wasn’t possible that’s not even a code! Sitting there in bold red letters inside the coding was the words. We need you. I looked at the coding for a while trying to make sense of what was going on, until I heard a knock at my door. I quickly looked away and saw that my roommate was back, but when I looked at the codes again.... The red letters were gone.
“Hey Walker...! Where are you?”
“I’m in the computer room! I’m having some troubles with the plugins for the server!”
My roommate, John walked in holding a six pack of beer. “Dude get you’re geek ass of the computer and come clubbing with us!”
I looked at my friend with a puzzled expression. “What do you mean us? who else is with you, John.”
He smiled and walked up to me, leaning down he whispered in my ear. “On you know, just Melissa.”
My eyes widened, “Melissa? Did you say Melissa is with you?”
He looked at me with a sly smile on his face before answering. “Mmmmhmmm.”
My God, He got Melissa to go clubbing with him? How the hell did he do that! Melissa is only the hottest and smartest girl in the academy. She’s tall, long flowing brown hair, blue eyes tanned skin. And oh god, oh god is she beautiful....
“How, did you get Melissa to agree to go with you?”
He shrugged his shoulders and smiled. “I told her you were coming.”
I paled as he said that, she wanted to go with us? Clubbing? Why did she want to go clubbing with us? It makes no sense! I looked at my friend and sighed. “Sure let me fix this and then....” A beep from the computer interrupted me.
I looked at the coding and again the red words, only different this time. Don’t go out. I stared at the words inside the coding; the words intensified with a glow that wasn’t capable by a computer screen. I thought for a moment. Would I rather go out clubbing with friends? Or try and solve the mystery about the red glowing words?
After more time than I could care to count I made up my mind. “.....Sorry John, I don’t think I can go clubbing tonight. I’ve got more important things to do.”
He sighed and pulled two cans of beer off the pack of six. “Here, take them.” My eyebrows rose as I grabbed the cool beer off him. “At least try and relax tonight, just this once.”
I smiled at my childhood friend, “You know me better than that John. No promises that I can’t keep.”
We shared a laugh together then. But little did I know it would be the last laugh I would share with him for a long time.....
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“Can you prepare the spell?” the hooded man asked the monster that stood before him.
“Yesss Massster I can prepare the ssspell.” The tall bipedal monster replied.
The black cloaked man raised his head. “Then let us begin, bring him before me...... Alive....”
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I hummed as I worked on the coding for the server. “Hmmm maybe it’s not the server... But the computer....” Grabbing the back of the computer I opened the cover up revealing the high class 900 GB CPU. “Annnnnnd there’s my girl....” I smiled at the hand crafted computer system. Over 900 Gigs of ram and processing power. And it all belonged to me. And I needed it too, especially with all of those mods installed.
I heard a beep from the computer. Looking up I saw that the red words were on the screen again. It is time to go..... The fuck was that supposed to me-?
A bright flash of light and I found myself in a clearing. Wait a minute.... wasn’t I at my computer a few minutes ago? Looking around I couldn’t see a building in sight. Not one thing was here except.... wait a minute. This looks familiar. I began walking north for about 2 miles. When I saw it.... A castle made of the blackest materials known to Minecraftians, Obsidian.
“I’m in MineCraft?!?!?!?” I went over to a tree and punched it. Wincing as I expected the pain to hit.... It never did. Instead I heard a Crack and a distinct Plop sound as the wood broke off and landed on the floor.
“Hang on a minute. Doesn’t that mean.....” I began thinking of opening a chat up, and it did. A chat opened, right in front of me.
“Hmmmmmm I wonder....” I thought of a command to type in, a simple one. /gamemode 1..... I heard a clicking sound and looked around. “Well that was odd wonder what that WOAH!” I began to float up into the air and hovered there.
“Ok this is AWESOME! I’M FLYING! WEEEE” I speed off towards the castle as I spun in circles. I stopped as I remembered something. “Wait a minute. My MineCraft had mods installed....” I looked at my back and sure enough there was the Angel Wings Mod. “Sweet.... I have red angel wings....”
Thinking of the command to throw lightening I was given a metal rod. “Oh sweet, I still have the Lightening rod Mod.” I swung it and a bolt of electricity arced down and struck the ground, leaving a trail of fire on the soft dirt below.
“Wait a minute, if I still have all my Mods installed.... then that means. I have over a million different things that I can do! HAH... HAHA.... I AM GOD!” I screamed it to the heavens and beyond. I was happy beyond belief, I could be anything, do anything, and build anything. Destroy everything......
I stopped and blinked.... Hang on a minute I’m not the type of guy to go destroying random objects. Where had that come from? I shook my head and headed towards the ground. I landed softly on my two feet and folded my wings against my back.
“Curious... I still have the natural curves that come with my Human form. That and everything here doesn’t seem so..... Blocky....”
I heard a noise behind me and I turned slowly around. My eyes widening as the man’s did so too. I knew this person; I knew his name, what he was who he was.
“Hello Steve.” His eyes widened as I said his name. But then his eyes reduced to slits as he looked me up and down. We both heard another voice, a woman’s voice.
“Steve what did you find?”
A purple horned Equine walked into the clearing and stood next to Steve, completely oblivious to my presence. Steve raised a hand and pointed it at me, the purple Equine followed his finger and her gaze stopped on me. She gasped as I looked at her.
“W-who are y-you?” She stuttered out at me. I smiled slowly at her. My gaze went into her eyes as I walked forwards. Steve jumped in front of me holding an iron sword. He looked at me with hatred in his eyes, still through all of this I was smiling.
“Go on Steve, try it. It won’t work on me.” He squinted at me as I smiled at him. In hindsight it’s probably not a good idea to piss off the guy with the iron sword.... oh yea.
I thought of a diamond sword appearing in my hands and it did so. Steve went wide eyed as the blue blade appeared in my hands. Again I smiled at him, this time though I reached for the end of the blade and turned the hilt towards him. His eyes went wide as he stared at the blue blade before him; reaching out a hand he grasped the hilt and pulled it out of my grasp. This got a small gasp out of the purple mare behind him.
“Trust me Steve, when I say that I mean no harm to you, or to Twilight Sparkle.” The mare whose name had been called eyes went wide.
“How do you know my name?” she asked with a hint of suspicion.
I smiled at her “I know many things about this world and yours, but I can guess that just like me you were brought here. Am I right?”
Twilight looked at Steve. “Well this is his world, MineCraft he called it.”
I cocked my head at the mare and man. “Did he speak?”
Twilight frowned at me. “He can’t speak, or so he says.”
I looked at Steve and bowed to him. “I’m sorry our first meeting got off on the wrong foot Steve. My name is Walker. And as to what I am.... Well I can hazard a guess the NPC’s call me Server Admin.”
Steve’s eyes widened as I said that, he cautiously reached out a hand and placed it on my chest. I could hazard a guess that he was feeling for a heartbeat. I tried that before I think. There was none.
His hand recoiled in shock as he didn’t feel a heartbeat; Twilight confused asked him what was wrong in a hushed whisper. Pulling out a book he wrote down something, as Twilight read it her eyes got wider.
“If he’s saying I don’t have a heartbeat I already know that.”
I looked at the two shocked faces in front of me, before pointing up. “We need to build a shelter before it gets dark. Who wants to go grab the wood?”
Steve looked at me with an ‘are you kidding me?’ look..... Why is he doing...? “Oh yea, I can do that..... My bad....” I thought of wood and the pine appeared in my hand. Cracking my neck I got started on construction.
Chapter Two: Dangers Of The Night
Twilight watched me as I placed the wood and cobblestone around the area, creating a wall out of the raw materials. All in all it was a pretty good wall if I do say so myself! The ten foot wall surrounded the entire clearing, and stood five metres away from the forests edge. I whistled as I placed the torches on each corner of the wall, walking to the edge I head a distinct hissing sound.
“Well shit, I thought I heard a Creeper. Oh wait, I did.” Jumping over the wall I made my way back over to Twilight as Steve set out some wood and a chair for her to sit at, making a makeshift desk. Clearing the dust off my hands I spoke. “Well guys, looks like I finished up just in time. Good thing too, otherwise those Creepers would have gotten in.”
Steve breathed a sigh of relief and Twilight looked a little confused by what a Creeper was. “A Creeper is, well.... How do I put it....? You know what a bomb is right?” When she nodded I continued, “Yea basically it’s a moving bomb that sneaks up behind you and blows up.”
I watched as Steve pulled out an orb and set it on the table. “Is that what I think it is?” He nodded and started to sort out his inventory. This included an assortment of foods, potions, materials, a couple of picks and the sword I had given him. “Quite a load you got there Steve.... Sure you don’t need any help?” Shaking his head he began to put it all away, I sighed and moved over to Twilight.
I looked at the book she was writing in, Today, Steve and I encountered a strange individual by the name of Server Admin or by Walker as he says. Although our first encounter didn’t go off to a good start, it reminded me that first impressions are.... I got bored reading what Twilight was writing and moved to the hole in the ground. I spawned in a piece of Netherrack in the shallow hole and lit it on fire. I placed a couple of log slabs around the fire and sat down on one.
“So Server Admin.... Do you think we are the only ones here?” Twilight sat down on the slab opposite mine. I shook my head at the mare and pointed north.
“When I was flying this morning I saw a great obsidian castle in the distance, I have no clue what it is but it looked familiar to me.... As for us being the only ones here? No, I think there are many more people... Or ponies, that are waiting for us to find them. We just need to look....”
Twilight went back to her writing leaving me to think on the situation, I’m sure we aren’t the only ones here. The castle is a testament to that might even be other ponies here, like Luna! Shaking my head to clear it of thoughts I decided I wanted to go for a flight. “Hey guys. I’m going to go flying for a bit, catch ya later!” I waved as I took off from the ground. I flew over the forest and just spread my wings, gliding from thermal to thermal. It was pure bliss.
After the relaxing flight I landed on top of the tallest tree I could find and sat down. I faced towards the moon in the night sky and smiled, my precious few moments of bliss were interrupted by a laughing voice I knew all too well.
“Well, well, well. What have we here? Walker? Is that you my dear friend?”
I turned with a scowl on my face to behold my greatest enemy, “Herobrine.
He smiled at me from beneath his hood. “Sorry dear friend, but you need to play by the rules of my new world. So that means.... none of this.”
He tapped me on the forehead and I heard a beeping sound. Looking in the chat I saw the one thing that scared me more than anything....
>You are no longer Op
>Your Gamemode has been changed
He laughed manically and grabbed me by the throat. “I guess this is truly goodbye this time my friend. Who knows? Maybe you might spawn again, maybe you won’t.” He shrugged and started to drag me to the corner of the skyscraper like tree.
“Anywho.... See ya.” And with that he tossed me off the side of the tree.
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A distinct female figure moved about in the dark, her head swerving in all directions as she took in the forest surrounding her. She remembered that it was sundown when she had awoken to the sounds of the waves lapping over her form, and she felt the sand beneath her hooves. Over the time she had remained awake in search of any signs of civilisation, and had gotten lost in the forest waiting for her wings to dry.
She stopped under a colossal tree and leaned against it. Sighing as she spoke to herself.
“I swear Pinkie if this is another one of your jokes it’s not funny.” She looked around the area under the big tree and sighed, slowly lying down on the ground. “I still have no clue where I am. Might as well be in Tartarus for all I know, can’t tell where I am based on cloud movements and star alignments.” She stretched an injured wing wincing at the pain. “Still need a splint for that.”
The rainbow manned mare, sighed as she leant against the massive tree. “I hate walking....” she jumped out of her skin as she heard something hit the ground behind her. “What in Celestia’s name was that?”
Walking around the oak tree the mare saw a pair of massive wings cradled over a broken form. “Oh My Gosh......” A hoof rose to her face as she spoke, a groan came from the small crater and the wings moved to reveal a bipedal creature with blue hair, red wings and wearing a leather jacket with an emblem on the side. It was a block, maybe grass? With a red pick and sword crossed over it.
Slowly the figure reached into his pocket and grabbed a red vial of liquid and drank it. “Lucky.... the bastard.... didn’t clear.... My inventory!” he coughed as he dropped the now empty vial to the floor with a clatter. She watched as the wounds on his form healed and the broken wing mended itself. “Whoa.....” The man’s head swerved and he glared at her, but slowly his eyes opened in recognition. “Rainbow.... Dash....?”
Said mare’s eyes widened as he spoke her name, he reached into his pocket and pulled out another red vial. “Here.... looks like.... you need it.” She took the vial after remembering the wonders it had done for the biped in front of her. She took a swig and waited for the awful taste that always accompanied medication, her eyes widened as the flavour of raspberries filled her mouth and she quickly finished the drink off. Hey wing and hoof tingled as well as her ribs as they were healed by the potion of red liquid.
“Thanks mister....?” he looked up at her and smiled. “Admin...... Admin Walker.”
She nodded and threw the empty vial away, the rainbow mare saw him pull out a white bag and drag out a bow and an arrow. “Time... to call the Calvary.... mind... ugh..... shooting this up into the air?” She nodded and took the bow and arrow of him. The Pegasus braced the bow against the ground and placed the arrow on the string. Grabbing the wood in her mouth, she drew the bow till it was fully drawn and released it. The arrow shot up into the air and exploded in a flash of purple and white light. The light lingered in the sky for several minutes during this time the two talked to each other.
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I looked at Rainbow Dash in front of me and smiled. “So I take it you were brought here as well?” the mare cast a suspicious glare at me. “Look it wasn’t my fault okay? Take a chill pill.... Geeze.”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and responded to my question. “Yea I was brought here as well, I don’t know what for though.”
I shrugged my shoulders and sighed. “That’s another pony from Equestria here in Minecraftia. Oh well, the more the merrier.”
Rainbows head spun till she was facing me. “Wait, did you say another pony?” I shrugged “well yea, you would think it would be someone important, but no it’s just the egghead.” She giggled as I spoke about Twilight and Steve back at the camp.
“So Walker, how’d you end up here?” I smiled at the mare sitting beside the fire next to me; I had thought it was a good idea to make some smores, boy was I right!
I reached into my bag and pulled out a cup of coffee, I also offered Rainbow one as well. “Well it all started when I sat down at my computer one fine average morning......”
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Twilight looked up from her writing to look at the quiet Minecraftian at the crafting bench on the other side of the camp; she smiled and went back to her writing.
It’s been around two and a half months since I was brought to Minecraftia, during that time I met an odd character, he calls himself Steve. When I arrived those two and a half months prior, I was lost and confused. I had wandered around the forest till I found a house, made of wood like the library back in Ponyville. I had thought that at first, I had been asleep for a very long time and this was the future. That thought quickly changed as the creatures known now as ‘Zombies’ came out from the wooden dungeon and attacked me. A quick shield spell stopped them from causing me harm, but I had no way to defend myself, I did the only logical thing at the time, I called for help.
Steve heard me from his home and came to my rescue, clad in diamond and Iron armour he killed the ‘Zombies’, after doing so he took me in and helped me to get adjusted to this new world, Minecraftia he called it. After two months with Steve in the wilderness, we became more.... ‘Attached...’ to each other, if you would say it like that.
The other day we met another ‘NPC’ as Steve would put it, turns out though. This wasn’t an NPC, but another ‘Minecraftian’ by the name of Server Admin Walker. He told us that he was brought here like me, didn’t explain how though, much to my annoyance. He seems to know a lot about this world, I will ask him some questions when he-
Twilight was interrupted as a giant purple explosion filled the night sky, it stayed hovered over a specific spot, north, forty miles by the looks of it. Steve looked up from the table he was sitting at, immediately recognising the Flare for what it was. Walker was in trouble, and he needed help.
Steve put on his diamond chest plate, and iron pants and boots, picking up the enchanted sword that Admin had given him he moved to the wall and climbed over it. Looking back at Twilights worrying gaze he motioned for her to stay before leaping off the wall and heading into the dark, monster infested forest. Twilight looked at the spot that Steve had occupied for a moment before he leaped off and headed into the forest. She trusted him to come back, and she knew he would come back; it was all a matter of time.
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“-And that’s how I ended up here, talking to you.” I finished of my narrative with a glance in her direction. Needless to say, my story had her confused and suspicious. I’ll reassure her at a later date.
“Let me get this straight, earlier today, you used to be an average guy, till some guy messages you on your ‘computer’ and you get brought here where you have a god like influence?”
I smiled and nodded at her, before remembering what transpired but a few moments ago, and I frowned. “At least, I ‘used’ to have that god like influence. I don’t anymore. Someone way more powerful than me took it all away, and then the bastard threw me off the top of the tree, and that’s how you found me.”
She nodded, clearly relieved that I had been stripped of the powers of an OP. “So who was this guy that you mentioned?”
I sighed as I spoke. “His name was Sam, but now he’s known as Herobrine.”
She seemed confused by my statement, bah let her figure it out..... Unless she asks me to... “Wait how can Herobrine be Sam? And who the hay is Sam anyway!” Yup she asked. I smiled sadly as I recounted Sam’s tale.
“Sam was one of my friends before we came to play MineCraft. We were the best Server back then, filled with people who loved to get along. Then the newest update came out, and with it came the release of Herobrine. We all thought he was removed, and so he was. Until Mojang added him back into the game. He killed hundreds of players, and before we knew it, players started to leave the server. Sam and I hatched a plan to kill Herobrine, we built the Obsidian Fortress, the last bastion of hope on our server, and there we gathered players and their pets, Dogs and Cats of all forms, from across Minecraftia to battle Herobrine.
Little did we know that Herobrine had power over the mobs, he gathered his own army to battle our army of players. The zombies were the main melee group, outfitted with dropped iron armour and discarded swords. The spiders acted like the rouges one would find on an RPG game, they were outfitted with special types of leather armour over their forms. The Endermen were the Assassins, or teleport specialists, they teleported behind our lines and killed players, before we could kill them they would teleport away. The Creepers were the sappers, blowing holes in the bunkers the players had built to defend themselves. The Spider Riders were the officers of Herobrine’s Army; they gave out the orders and sometimes led the charge against the trenches.
All throughout that time, Herobrine had recruited the EnderDragon to help him; travelling from the end he tore a hole between the fabrics of the two worlds leaving the world open to invasion from the end. The Nether was torn open too, with a giant portal that Herobrine had constructed. This let the Ghasts, Magma Cubes, Blazes and Zombie Pigmen come through. All throughout the battle raging below, Sam, myself and a few player made operators were fighting Herobrine and the EnderDragon.
It was a dramatic battle and at the end...... it took a turn for the worse. With the EnderDragon being cast down and with us being stuck in the end, we fought Herobrine. Somehow he had gained the ability to turn OPs into normal players again, he used it on the player made OPs and he killed them. Leaving only Sam and myself, the last two Admins on the server, to battle him to the death, we fought bravely, but no one could have anticipated what happened next. In the last moments of the battle, Sam stabbed Herobrine with the most powerful weapon we had, the sword of Notch. During his last moments of death, Herobrine cursed Sam, saying. “You will take up my mantel.” And with that he died, none of us knew what he meant by what he said to Sam. But we forgot about it, and we rejoiced. Herobrine was dead and we won the war.
Months passed and after a time, I noticed the changes in Sam. He became angry at the drop of a pin, his eyes started to go white and his skin became pale. I confronted him in the Obsidian Fortress, and he told me this. “The mantel has been upheld, and Herobrine has risen again.” I fought him as we had fought Herobrine all those months ago. He cast me down to the bottom of the Obsidian palace and he laughed, I was confused, until he said this. “It is a cycle dear friend, there will always be a Herobrine, and after a time. You too will uphold this role.” And with that Sam disappeared from the face of the real world, only to replace Herobrine inside the game world. I left the server after that, leaving it in the grasps of Herobrine.”
Rainbow looked at me with sadness in her eyes, I could tell why. Sam’s fate will be my own sooner or later, it was all a matter of time and place. I looked into the crackling fire and continued speaking.
“The server was shut down; no one was on it at the time. I could hazard a guess by saying that Herobrine’s powers go far beyond that of the game, and that this is the physical manifestation of the Server, which means all the dangers of the previous world are in place. But we have one thing to be thankful for, that the end was destroyed when the battle ended, and the dragon that resided there is either dead or in hibernation somewhere in this world.”
Rainbow looked at me with a curious expression, “How did you get out? Or the end, I mean.”
I hummed in thought. “How did I get out? Well, many years ago I had heard a rumour that a player had accidentally trespassed into the end. All he had with him was his armour, twenty four pieces of obsidian and a flint and steel. It’s said that he escaped by building a nether portal and going through, then building another and entering back into the normal world. Sam and I used this method to escape the end.”
I placed my hands on my knees and we sat in silence for a long time, I heard a something coming towards us and I smiled. “It’s about time you got here Steve, is everything alright?”
He walked into the clearing and towards me; his armour was painted in the greenish blood of Creepers and the red blood of zombies. His sword was covered in the blood of foes cast down into the maws of death. He wiped the blade clean on the grass next to me and sat down. I looked at him and he frowned and pointed up.
“Why didn’t I fly?” He nodded at me, and I sighed. “I didn’t fly because I encountered an old enemy, I didn’t want to risk the chance of being spotted.” He nodded his head then gave me a curious stare. “Who was he?” Again he nodded, “His name ‘was’ Sam when I knew him, but you may know him as Herobrine.....” His eyes widened in fear and he began to shake, “There is no reason to fear Steve, I think he is long gone. But for now we have a guest to lead back to our camp, care to lead the way?” With a nod he got back up and motioned for us to follow.
“Alright then, let’s get going Dash.” Together we put the fire out and started walking back to the camp, where a warm bed, some hot coco and a few ghost stories awaited us.
Chapter Three: Don't Eat Me!!!
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I awoke in the morning to the sound of my stomach grumbling, I groaned and sat up, holding my sore stomach. This is what I get for not eating anything last night.......
I groaned again and shook Steve awake; he got up slowly, with half lidded eyes. He stared at me with a questioning gaze. “Hey Steve....? Got any grub?” A louder rumble echoed around the camp and we both stared at his stomach. “I’ll take that as a no.....” My stomach rumbled again, witch awoke the two sleeping mares.
Rainbow looked around the clearing, before setting her gaze on us. “What the hay is going on?” Both Steve and my own stomachs rumbled in harmony, causing the rainbow manned mare to laugh, I looked back to Steve. “So.... As I was saying, do you have anything to eat?”
Steve reached into his pockets and pulled out two delicious shiny red apples, my mouth began to water and our stomachs growled again. He handed one to me and we were about to start eating when two other stomachs growled out in protest against our action. We both stopped before we took our first bite and looked towards the two sheepish mares sitting on the beds.
Sighing I grabbed Steve’s and my own apple and handed them to the girls, and they greedily dug into the offered apples. “Well Steve, looks like we need to find something to eat....” I looked at the four entrances to our camp that we constructed overnight after we got back. “Tell you what, you head that way,” I pointed out the south gate. “And I’ll head this way,” I pointed out the north gate. “We’ll gather any food we can find, including apples, carrots, anything that’s edible, and then we’ll meet back here at noon. Sound good?” He nodded.
“Ok then Steve, Let’s roll out!” He looked at me with a confused look and I sighed, “Never mind, let’s go before I lose my patience.”
We both headed opposite directions and the two mares stayed behind to catch up about the past two days in Minecraftia, I stopped at the crafting bench on the way to the north gate. Reaching into my bag I pulled out a long bow and a stack of arrows, I strapped a quiver to my back and placed the arrows inside before slinging the bow across my back. I pulled out some spare leather and a piece of iron and crafted a belt with it. Using the excess leather I made two sheaths and some straps for two dagger hilts. I then pulled out some sticks and iron and crafted two daggers, I placed the sheaths on the belt in the middle before strapping it diagonally across my chest, leaving the daggers in the middle of my chest, where it would be easiest to grab.
I nodded to myself and headed to the north gate out into the wilderness, humming to myself as I went along. I crossed over the simple bridge that had been quickly constructed the night before; I looked in the trees and saw coco beans hanging from the jungle wood. Picking some off the tree I continued along my journey to find food. Might find a pig in here, ya never know...
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Twilight looked over to Rainbow Dash and smiled; “So Rainbow, how did you end up here?” said mare lifted a hoof to her chin in thought before replying to her friends comment.
“Well, I arrived here only yesterday. I woke up on the beach with a strained wing a sore leg and some hurt ribs. I walked into the forest while waiting for my wings to dry and found Admin; he helped me to get better by giving me a potion that healed me. How did you end up here Twi’?”
Twilight sighed as she remembered the past two months she had spent here. “Well it’s been two months since I got here.” Rainbow gasped at that. “What is it Rainbow?”
Rainbow shook her head and responded to her friend. “Twilight, it’s been about a day back in Equestria since you went missing. After that I ended up here.” Twilight scratched her chin in thought before replying.
“I can only theorise about what this means, but it might have to be about the planets position or it might be because of this ‘Herobrine’ that Admin and Steve were talking about last night. Like I said all I can do is theorise about our current situation.”
Rainbow looked over to Twilight as she started writing in her journal. “Did he tell you yet?” Twilight looked over to the downcast mare with a confused expression on her face. “What do you mean Rainbow?”
She looked up from the ground. “Did he tell you about Sam?” Twilight looked towards the north gate where Admin was just walking out the gate. “No. He didn’t tell me anything last night, I don’t even think he went to sleep last night. What did he tell you Dash?”
“His friend Sam was like him once. He was powerful, respectful and caring. Until the Herobrine attacked their homes, they fought him and killed it. Only for Sam to be cursed with Herobrine’s magic, slowly he turned into the monster which he had slain, and before we got here. Sam said to him, “It is a cycle dear friend, there will always be a Herobrine, and after a time. You too will uphold this role.” Don’t you know what that means? It means that sooner or later he’s going to have to kill his friend! And he will then become the very monster that he defeated!” Twilight gasped as Rainbow finished with a yell, Admin had never told her about that.
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I walked through the forest, jumping from vine to vine that hung from the trees above. I looked for apples that hung from the branches above me, picking the red fruit whenever I came upon it. My hand slipped and I fell to the floor below, quickly I snapped out a hand and grabbed the vine next to me. I slowly slid down to the forested floor below me.
“Well, that could have ended up worse than it turned out.” I walked towards some wild carrots and wheat that was growing on the forest floor. I picked the carrots and wheat up and pocketed them into the small white bag, and I continued walking along the forest floor.
What am I going to do when the time comes that Sam and I face each other again? Will I kill my only friend? And embrace the darkness like he did? Or will I let myself be killed by him? And forever be in the darkness of the abyss. So many questions and no way for me to answer them, I have no idea what I’m going to do when the time comes, or how I will handle the situation. For all I know the people and ponies sent here will be the next army to face Herobrine and his minions.
My eyes widened in realisation as I came to the conclusion that at that exact moment Sam had as well. We would be gathering a new army, and I needed generals for my army, I needed people, and ponies to help me fight the evil. But most of all, I needed a weapon that we used to kill Herobrine the last time around, The Sword of Notch.
I’m going to need to start looking for people, and ponies to help me fight..... I could look for survivors from the last war, if this is a physical manifestation of the server, then everyone who was on it, and participated in the last war, has a higher chance of being dragged here as well. So I could either look in the Nether for survivors, check the Aether to see if there are any other surviving Ops that headed there, or check the underground cities that I built for shelters. So many places to check, but where do I go first?
I sighed as I gathered more apples that had fallen from the trees; I continued to place them in my bag for some time. I got up and continued walking and I thought to myself. I wonder what Steve’s doing right now.....
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Steve stood as still as the trees that surrounded him, he had a bow in one hand and his other on an arrow. Drawing the bow, he pointed it at the cow in front of him. Taking a deeper breath he pulled the bow so that it was straining in his hands, and when he could hold it no longer he let the string go. The arrow flew towards its mark and hit it in the back of the cows head, toppling it in one fell swoop.
Walking towards the fallen animal Steve pulled a carving knife and got to work cutting the meat from the carcass. His thoughts drifted to Twilight and his new friends that he had encountered throughout his lifetime. Something seemed different when Admin had returned with Rainbow Dash; he seemed less imposing and more afraid of the world around him. More..... Normal.
Shaking his head to clear the thoughts away he returned to the task at hand, carving the meat of the fallen animal and continuing the search for food. After completing the gruesome job, he jogged along the forest floor, jumping over the roots that stuck out of the ground and ducking under the branches that threatened to hit him in the head.
He walked for many minutes just enjoying the scenery around him, until he spotted a dark cave that produced many noises that monsters make in the night. Walking towards the cave entrance, Steve peeked inside to see zombies gathering in the dungeon below him. Walking away from the cave entrance, Steve stumbled on a root sticking out of the ground and landed on the grass.
Steve got to his feet and began sprinting back towards the camp, he needed to warn them to prepare for an attack, and he needed to tell Admin about what he saw in there.
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I searched around me for any signs of danger before I prepped my fishing rod, grasping the handle I swung it over my head and watched as the hook and buoy hit the water’s surface and sunk, only to reappear in a few seconds.
This was one of the basic ways that I could collect food for me and Steve to eat, unlike the two mares back at camp we required meat to survive. The only logical solution would be to hunt, but I had not seen any animal for many minutes. So I decided to fish for, well.... Fish....?
I sat there humming a merry tune as I hauled the fish in for tonight’s feast; I wonder what Steve would think if he knew that I now have a heart that beats inside my chest. That I am no longer the Admin the he knows, he would probably freak out.
I sighed as I hooked another fish and stored it into my inventory, packing up my bag and fishing rod I equipped my long bow and headed to the other side of the river. As I walked I remembered all the past times that Sam and I had spent together, the time at school where we stood up for each other, the time in that alleyway where we each stopped an old lady from being mugged. I missed him more than I cared to remember, my own thoughts betrayed my feelings and I stopped and sat down on a log of a felled tree.
I sighed again slowly pulling my bow off my back and resting it on my lap, looking across the lake I saw a perfect place for target practice. A clearing lay at the other side of the lake, I made my way around and walked into the clearing. A single birch tree stood at one end of the clearing, I lifted my bow up and aimed at the tree. Pulling the string back I concentrated on the middle of the trunk, I took a deeper breath and pulled the sting back more, I could hear the bow straining under the pressure. Letting the string go I heard the familiar wiz as the arrow flew towards its mark, the telltale thud marking the end of the arrows journey.
I do not remember how long I stood there taking pot shots at the trunk of the tree, but when I stopped to take a break I looked up. It was almost noon, which would mean it was time to head back to the camp. I walked over to the birch tree and collected all of my arrows up; sighing as I walked out of the clearing I noticed a pink blur on the edge of my vision. I spun around and saw what had its back to me, a pig.
I moved my bow in front of me and placed an arrow on the string, I drew back the bow and heard the familiar creak as I pulled it back. The pig stopped in its tracks as it heard the bow being drawn; I continued to pull it back until I could pull it no longer. I spoke to myself then, “Don’t worry little pig, it’ll all be over soon.”
The pig turned towards me, looking at me with a furious look in its eyes. It scraped its back leg against the ground and charged towards me, I was surprised and let my bow go. The pig charged into me and head butted me in the stomach. “ARGH WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! I thought pigs were docile!”
The pig growled at me. “Who you calling a pig asshole, if anyone’s a pig here it’s you, bastard! You tried to kill me and eat me!”
My eyes opened wider as I looked at the pig. “Did.... you just-?”
The pig snorted in defiance before looking with its snout in the air at me. “Did I just talk? Why yes I did in fact talk! What in God’s green earth made you think I was a pig in the first place?!?!?”
“Well the fact that you are a pig would be one wouldn’t it, short four legged little bitch!” It snorted again at me before sighing.
“It’s not my fault I’m a pig, I was just casually sitting at my computer when-” We both finished the sentence together. “A bright light appeared and I ended up here.” We stared at each other before I laughed.
“So what’s you name pig?”
He snorted again “I thought that at least you would remember me from the sound of my voice, but nope! I have to tell you, useless Admin, you are useless, my username is codelord.”
“Well it’s good to see another human here..... Albeit in a differing form, but you play the cards your dealt, and play them I shall.” I walked towards him rubbing my stomach, “So, how did you end up as a pig?”
He sighed, “Sam.” That was all that needed to be said; I knew that Sam and I had met codelord before. The trolling bastard had spawned a shit ton of pigs inside my house in the Aether. I shuddered at the memory.
“Wait a minute, if you’re a pig..... Then will a saddle work on you?” He gave me the ‘you fucking try it and your dead look’ and I didn’t make a move for a while. In the end he laughed and said to me. “Kind of kinky for a first date my friend, but I’ll let it slide.”
“Alright then code, let’s head back to camp!” We walked towards the camp talking about the old days; a sudden question came to mind. “If Herobrine brought you here, what did he want from you?”
He continued trotting next to me before responding. “He’s gathering an army Admin, and he asked me to be his general. When I refused, he did this to me. You need to start the search Admin, gather your own army. Just like the last time.”
I nodded at him, and we continued walking whilst we talked. “I was thinking of checking for survivors that may have been brought here from the last war.”
He nodded and stopped trotting. “I know where we could find an alchemist for our ranks; the crazy bastard was brought here as well.” I was confused by what the man turned pig was saying.
“Who is he codelord, and why did you say he was crazy?” he shuddered whilst talking.
“My brother, FrozenFire_ was brought here as well. He was the Alchemist in the last war that supplied us with the potions that kept those on the front lines alive. We were both brought here at the same time, but in different locations. I know where he is because it was all he talked about, The Labs he called them. Hidden deep beneath the earth, in the Dwarf city below, High Rockwall it was called I think.” He pointed south. “About that ways, maybe more than two to four kilometres, he also said something about gathering survivors himself. That Admin would be a good place to start as any.”
I nodded at the pig beside me. “Ok that I get, but why did you call him crazy?”
He shuddered again. “The bastard was too into making potions, explosive kind of potions, poisonous kinds as well. Oh, don’t get me wrong he made lots of other potions that helped as well, like invisibility potions, healing potions and strength potions. But offline he was a normal kid just about 16 years of age, online he was a laughing lunatic, throwing firebombs and explosive casks at any enemy that dared invade his castle. Herobrine tried to recruit him but he threw an acidic cask at him..... And well, now Herobrine wears a hood, if you catch my drift.”
I nodded and said to the pig beside me. “Anyone who can stand up to Herobrine and live to tell the tale is good in my book. But first, let’s get back to camp and sort all this out before we go grab your brother and any survivors that he may have with him at the time.” He nodded and we continued walking.
It became dark as the camp came into view, I could clearly see that something was wrong and we both stopped in our tracks. “Admin..... Are the entrances meant to be blocked?” I shook my head and cupped my hands over my eyes in a pair of hand binoculars, I saw that there was a hoard of zombies surrounding the entrances of the camp and that Steve was on the wall, shooting arrows down upon the decaying corpses below. I looked to the pig beside me and smiled. “Well my old friend, it looks like Steve and the girls have gotten themselves in a spot of trouble.” I smiled even wider as I pulled out some pig armour and handed it to him. “Should we call the Calvary?”
He smiled at me as the armour slid over his form and would protect him from damage. “Just like old times Admin?”
“Just like old times indeed my friend...... Let’s go and get us some zombie meat.”
“I prefer pork chops.....” I looked at him and we laughed together like maniacs as I pulled the two daggers out of their sheaths, we started sprinting down the hill towards the encampment that was being attacked by zombies, We cried out in outrage as we charged the evil friends below us.
Chapter Four: Wrath Of Admin
Steve arrived back at camp just after midday had passed, he raced into the camp and threw open one of the chests, startling the two mares in the camp. He grabbed cobblestone and wood from the chest and ran over to patch up the north, west, east and south gates. Once he had done so, he went to the crafting bench and began to make some arrows for the upcoming battle.
Twilight and Rainbow Dash were confused by Steve’s actions, moving over to him she asked him what was wrong. “Steve, what’s wrong. Why did you block the entrances?”
Steve looked at her with a determined expression on his face. “You want me to go inside your head again, don’t you?” He nodded and Twilight began to cast the spell. What she saw inside she could not describe, for she saw Steve as he stumbled upon the cave of horrors. She saw how he reacted to them, and that the fear he felt was shown to her.
Slowly a thought entered the vision. “I have to warn them, I have to tell Admin.”
As Twilight left Steve’s mind she looked into his eyes, she saw there the determination and dedication to keep her safe. She nodded and Steve went back to preparing the required items when night should fall.
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Steve stood on the wall with bow and arrow in hand, looking off into the distance he saw the sun setting, looking the other way he saw the moon rising. He slowly loaded the bow with an arrow and waited for the sun to finally drop below the horizon.
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He looked south and saw the moon rising more higher into the sky, his face grimaced in determination and hatred as the sounds of moaning filled the night. Cocking the bow he pointed it towards the forest edge, just as the first zombie exited the forest he loosed the arrow and watched it as it hit a zombie in the head. Arrows levitated next to him as Twilight handed him a stack of arrows, taking one he loosed it into the hoard exiting the forest. He felled two more with well placed shots to the head, and still the stack of arrows levitated by his side.
Twilight herself was levitating a bow in front of her and sat beside Steve. She too was shooting arrows towards the mob of zombies that grew ever closer to the camp. They shot arrows off into the night together as the zombies still drew closer. Soon Twilight was close to exhaustion as the magic spent to keep the duplicating spell on the arrows working, soon enough she sat her bow down and looked towards Steve. He nodded and Twilight got off the wall and walked towards the chest, with Rainbow’s help they pushed the chest towards the wall and opened it. Inside was some modified armour for the two equines. For Rainbow Dash, there was Leather chest plate, helmet, leggings and two coverings for her wings. For Twilight there was a set of chainmail armour, a chest plate, a helmet with a hole in it for her horn and some leggings.
There was also a pair of iron swords inside the chest as well as a ton of arrows for Steve if he should run out. Rainbow Dash grabbed one of the iron swords inside the chest with her mouth; Twilight levitated the other with her magic and placed it over her back. Together the two walked towards Steve and waited below him. Rainbow looked towards Twilight with a nervous glance.
“Well.... I guess this is a good time to say, I think you two go well together.” Twilight smiled at her friend. “Thanks Rainbow, I was wondering what you would think of me and Steve.”
Rainbow chuckled at her friend. “Always knew you would like the strong silent type.” Twilight laughed at her friend’s accusation. “I know Rainbow.... I know...”
Steve jumped off the wall with hope glimmering in his eyes. He pointed over the wall and the three of them climbed up, that’s when they heard it . The cries of rage and hatred coming from the hill, looking at the hill they saw Admin running down with an armoured pig galloping beside him, his face contorted into a grimace of rage. Just before he reached the line of zombies, he jumped onto a rock protruding from the ground. Bracing his legs he jumped and bellowed at the zombies below him. He landed onto of one of the zombies burying his daggers into the head of the beast, the pig beside him bucked a zombie in the legs and head butted it in the face. Admin got up from the downed zombie and threw one of his daggers into the face of a zombie whilst burying the other into the neck of another. Pulling his dagger loose he ran towards the one with his other dagger inside its head. Grabbing the dagger and pulling it free, he ran up the body and jumped off its head and kicked another zombie in the face. He was like a raging storm with his twin blades, slitting the throat of one zombie whilst simultaneously stabbing another in the head. Soon enough he was surrounded by the bodies of his felled enemies, and still the pig stayed by his side breaking the legs of zombies and pounding their heads into the ground. Rainbow Dash watched the monsters that they had thought would have killed then, being felled one by one by Admin. His wrath felled them swing for swing. Slowly but surely, the numbers that the zombies held over them began to diminish. Admin got down on all fours and tackled one zombie while the pig jumped off his back and head butted a zombie in the face. The two were inseparable; it was almost like they were dancing the dance of death.
Soon enough the zombies were all dead, and the two stood atop a mountain of dead and decaying corpses. Blood dripped from Admins twin daggers, and the two were covered in blood and gore from the zombies that lay underneath their feet. The two shared a look and laughed atop their mountain of dead, they walked down the steps of the dead reaching the door to the camp.
Admin called out to them. “Hey ya’ll alright in there?”
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The hooded figure looked into the glass in front of him on the desk. He watched as Admin felled the hoard one by one, his rage amplified as he saw the pig beside him. “So a side has been chosen the general has begun construction of his army, and so to have I.”
He looked up from the orb in front of him. “Bring them in.” An EnderMan nodded its head and teleported away. The hooded figure lowered its head again to stare at the orb on the desk in front of him. After a few moments the door opened revealing a mismatched creature, a bug like pony, and a Stallion with smoke coming from his eyes.
They walked towards the figure on the black throne. When they got close enough two Wither Skeletons blocked their path with black swords. The figure looked at them with lifeless white eyes. “Do you know why you are here?”
The three looked from one to the other, they looked back to the creature and the bug like mare spoke up. “Why are we here, I have a swarm to get back to.”
The figure looked towards the bug like mare and scowled. “Silence insolent worm, did I give you permission to speak? No I did not, now be silent before I cut of that blubbering tongue and feed it to the spiders.” The bug mare gulped and quietened down.
The hooded figure smiled. “Good, now the answer to the rhetorical question that I asked is simple, I need generals for my army. I have chosen you three; you represent the evil I wish to spread into this world, Chaos,” He looked towards the mismatched creature. “, fear” He looked towards the Stallion with smoke coming from its eyes. “And control.” He looked towards the bug like mare and smiled. “You three will help me conquer this world. And in the end, I will help you conquer your own. Do you agree?”
The three creatures nodded towards the cloaked figure. “Excellent. Your first task is to find these people and kill them.” Pictures of Admin, Steve, codelord and FrozenFire_ and a few others appeared inside the orb. “The first three are already together, and will be your hardest targets to kill. I would recommend going after those who are alone first, they will be your easiest targets to kill.” The figure waved a hand and three more orbs appeared before the three. “Your first targets will appear on those orbs, they will also be my means of contacting you. And be warned of the Alchemist, he is cunning, and deceitful. Go after him first.”
The mismatched creature spoke up. “We understand, but may we ask, who are you?” The hooded figure smiled underneath its cowl.
“Me? I am the one who lurks in the dark, the murderer in the night. Lord of death and destruction, I am the one who goes bump in the night. I am Herobrine, and you will server me.”
The three left the dark chamber of Herobrine, the door closing seemingly on its own behind them. The stallion with smoke coming out of his eyes spoke up with a dark and menacing voice.
“I do not like this Herobrine that we find ourselves employed to.”
The mismatched creature nodded to the stallion. “I don’t like it either Sombra, but he offered us the world, and I intend on taking it. Don’t you agree Chrysalis?”
Chrysalis nodded. “I agree with Discord here Sombra. He offered us the world, who would not be smart enough to realize this opportunity?”
Sombra shook his head. “Obviously you two have been blinded by this Herobrine, the targets he has given us have no information on them, and although we know who they are we do not know what they are capable of.”
Discord nodded agreeing with the smoky stallion that walked with them down the blacked corridors of the Worlds End Citadel. “I agree that we only know who they are, but come friends, we have spent long waiting and I am tired. Let us retire to the quarters that have been given to us, in the morning we leave to join the hunt.”
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I shuddered as I felt a presence watching me; I was confused as to who would be capable of doing so. I stopped in my tracks as the thought hit me. “Everyone stop...” The two mares, Minecraftian and pig stopped what they were doing. After a few minutes the presence left, leaving me with a chill down my spine.
Codelord walked up to me. “What’s wrong Admin?” I looked at him. “He was watching....” His eyes widened as he realized who I was talking about; I turned to face the others. “This camp has been compromised! Pack up anything of value, we leave at midday.”
They all nodded at went about packing things up onto the wagon Steve and I had built after the battle. The smell of burning bodies wafted through the camp as the giant bonfire of dead zombies burned in the night, keeping the other creatures of the dark away.
I stood in the middle of the camp, watching as the others went about their packing. Twilight and Steve picked up a chest and placed it in the back of the wagon, Rainbow walked up to me. “Was he really watching us?” I nodded. “So what are we going to do now?”
I sighed as Twilight and Steve packed up the crafting bench and placed it into the wagon. “We leave; this place has been found by Herobrine. And there is no doubt in my mind that he has sent assassins against us. We must reach High Rockwall in two days time; otherwise I fear what might happen to Frozen....”
Rainbow’s head lowered onto the bench. “How do you know codelord and FrozenFire_?”
I smiled at the mare next to me. “Do you remember that I told you that a few players made operators were killed during the war by Herobrine?” When she nodded I continued. “Those two were part of the group that helped in our battle against Herobrine, they supplied us with healing and strength potions, supplied the troops with food and water. They helped us defeat Herobrine and the EnderDragon, but in the end we thought them dead as they were cast down by him. Turns out I was wrong, and am I thankful for that.”
I smiled at the pig as he squealed profanities at the small chest in front of him, shaking a foot at it. “They were the glue that kept the army together, and I’m glad that they didn’t pass away in the real world.” My face took a sombre expression and my voice sounded deflated. “Unlike the others that were killed by Herobrine....” Rainbow looked up to me and I knew she could see the sadness in my eyes. “The others, they weren’t so lucky.... As they passed away in this world they suffered heart attacks in the real world and passed on.” Tears fell from my checks and I stopped talking, I felt a pair of hooves wrap around my neck and I didn’t resist as Rainbow hugged me. I cried in rage and sadness that all the lives that Herobrine took all those years ago would happen again.
Twilight and Steve stopped what they were doing and looked in our direction as they heard me cry, but as they saw that Rainbow was trying to comfort me they continued packing the tools and supplies onto the motored wagon.
Eventually I stopped crying and stared out into the night sky, “You know.... I think you were brought here to lead us.” I looked at the rainbow mare that had a leg wrapped around my neck, she looked into my eyes and smiled. “I’ve only known you for a few days now, but you seem like an alright guy in my book. And I trust you, I believe in you. Just remember that we all believe that you can pull us through this.”
I smiled and wiped my eyes. “Thanks Dash, I needed that.” She hugged me again and flew off to help codelord, who was still squealing profanities at the small chest in front of him.
I smiled and chuckled lightly, hopefully I can find the strength to finish the task to which I have been given. I looked out towards the rising sun and breathed in a fresh new breath. A look of determination rose upon my face; I will find them a way back, I will protect them this time, and even if it costs me my own life I will do so.
Chapter Five: Good News And Bad
We join our Heroes on their journey to High Rockwall, the automated wagon rolled across the path. A rainbow streak passes along the sky and birds are chirping in the trees, the wolves run along wagon in their attempts to chase it. A single person sits at the front of the wagon with a steering wheel in hand; the person is whistling a merry tune as the wagon bumps along the road. It seems we have joined our hero as he is singing a rather recurring song.
This is the song that doesn’t end.
Yes! It just goes on and on my friends.
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because!
This is the song that doesn’t end!
“I swear to god if you don’t shut up I’m going to buck you in the face Admin!”
Yes! It goes on and on my friends.
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because!
This is the song that doesn’t end!
“Don’t make me come up there!”
Yes! It goes on and on my friends.
“Calm down codelord, I think it’s rather amusing.”
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because!
This is the song that doesn’t end!
“I swear this is his revenge for that pig prank all those years ago.”
“Was that a pun codelord?”
“HELL NO!”
Yes! It goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
“Please Admin! I’m begging you now! Look I’m down on all four trotters!”
“Aren’t you always down on all fours?” I heard Rainbow reply. I stopped for a second just to reply “OH HO NO SHE DIDN’T”
And they’ll continue singing it forever ju-
“HE STOPPED!!! MY BEGGING WORKED!”
Uuuuuuuuuuust Because!
This is the song that doesn’t end!
Yes it goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because!
“NOOOOOOOoooooooooo...........” *Splat*
“Dude you knocked him unconscious.”
I stopped singing and started laughing. “Revenge is a dish best served cold, with ice cream, and chocolate sauce. And maybe a few sprinkles.”
A voice replied from the wagon. “Oooo I could go for some ice cream right now.” Another voice joined that one. “Too true that does sound appetising.”
I looked up at the sun, “Oh wow look at the time! ALRIGHT EVERYONE AND PONY! WE’RE STOPPING FOR THE NIGHT!”
I pulled the wagon over and watched as Twilight, Steve, and Rainbow came out dragging an unconscious codelord. “Yeesh, you weren’t kidding about him being unconscious.” Rainbow laughed. “Hey don’t you laugh. If we ever meet Pinkie Pie here I’m going to teach her that song!” Rainbow shuddered and Twilight visible paled.
I laughed at their reactions. “Don’t worry girls, if we should ever meet Pinkie Pie here, I will make it my personal mission to not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not. Teach her that song.” They visibly relaxed and I laughed manically inwards to myself. Oh are they in for a surprise in the future.
“Anyway.... Anyone know where the fences are?” Rainbow shrugged and Twilight pulled a booklet out from the back of the wagon.
“Second chest from the right on the top, twenty fifth item down from the top.” I nodded to Twilight and moved into the wagon to grab the fences from the chest. “Steve, care to give me a hand?” I looked behind me and- oh shit - If looks could kill I would be dead right now, Steve was giving me the most killer glare whilst rubbing his temples. I smiled sheepishly at him, “Eh, never mind, I think I can manage on my own.” He just blinked at me and leaned against the side of the wagon.
I set up the perimeter around the wagon and started a fire with some netherrack and a flint and steel. I placed five chairs around the fire and grabbed the bag of marshmallows out from the White Alchemical Bag in my inventory. Boy I am glad I had that mod installed, even if I couldn’t remember the name for it. I waited as the others gathered around, minus one unconsciousness pig. “So anyone want any smores?”
Rainbow squealed in delight and grabbed a stick and a marshmallow from me, Twilight smiled and did the same, grabbing another stick and marshmallow, not squealing and Steve smiled as well and grabbed some also. I got my own marshmallow and stick and put it in the fire, watching as the white deliciousness started to turn a golden brown.
“So anyone got any stories to tell?” I looked around at all the faces as they shook their heads, Steve just looked at me with a ‘you little shit, you know I can’t talk’ look, I just smiled at him. “Guess that means I’m up first.” Stabbing my stick with my now cooked smore into the ground to cool off for a second I slapped my hands together and coughed to clear my throat.
Ok so this isn’t really a story, but more of a memory. For you see, I was but a boy when this happened. AHHH! Dash what the hell! Fine I’ll start it off properly.
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V A Few Years Ago V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
The rain poured down unto my shoulders as Sam and I walked across the roads of adventure, which was literally what they were called. The roads of Adventure, nice sense of originality there mates. We walked towards the Inn where our informant said to meet him, I pushed the door open and Sam walked ahead into the Inn. A few tables were occupied and there were many people who stopped and stared at the two hooded people who had just entered through the door. Walking towards the bar, we sat down on two seats. “Whiskey, and make it strong.” The barman nodded and brought a bottle, pouring two glasses he made to put the bottle back but I raised a hand. “Leave the bottle.” The bottle was left on the table and the barman went about his business as Sam and I drank our drinks.
I looked out of the cowl of my cloak, searching for our informant. Unfortunately I caught the gazes of several people of differing races inside the bar, each giving us hate filled glances. I smiled and tapped Sam on the shoulder. “Seems like our informant squealed, you want to take the three on the left or the four on the right?” He grunted.
“Don’t worry, I’ll take them...” I cocked an eyebrow at him.
“Feeling lucky tonight Samuel?” He smiled and chuckled. “Just watch me.”
I stayed motionless as Sam got up and cracked his knuckles. “So ladies.... Who’s first?” All at once the seven men stood up from their tables and approached Sam. There were two Dwarves, an Elf, a Demon, two Humans and a Mechanist. I smiled mischievously at Sam. “Seems like quiet a haul tonight Sam, might want to be careful.” He grunted in response.
I sat still as he cracked his knuckles; I sighed and motioned for another bottle from the barman. I heard the sounds of a fight behind me, grabbing the first bottle I threw it up into the air only for Sam to catch it. I heard a crashing sound of glass on a head and the thump of the last Dwarf hitting the floor.
“Barman, check please.” I sighed as Sam sat down again. “So that’s another Informant that lied to us.” Sam shook his head, the hood covering his features. “We’ll find him sooner or later, the wars starting soon.” I nodded and finished off my drink. “I guess it’s time for us to leave huh?”
“Yea......”
I looked over at my childhood friend. “Hey you seem down, what’s wrong?” He sighed and finished off his drink.
“I’ll tell you when we get out of here.” I nodded and we got up, exiting through the double doors.
The rain started to pelt down upon us as we stepped out into the night; we started walking along the pathway with no destination in mind. “So you were going to tell me what’s bothering you?” He sighed and straightened out his cloak.
“It’s this whole Herobrine business; didn’t you notice that people are starting to leave the server?” I nodded waiting for him to continue.
“We all know the wars going to start soon, it has me on edge. Lately there have been reports of Mobs gathering in the Voidways, you know how dark it is in there.” I snorted.
“That’s what you get when you try to build an underground pathway in the dark.” He sighed “Hey, cheer up Sam. If anything goes wrong, just know I’ll be there to pull you out of the frying pan.”
He laughed at me. “Then we fall into the fire, like always.”
We laughed together as we walked through the night, remembering all the times that the exact quote had applied to us. I looked at Sam and held up my fist.
“Hey Sam me and you, together as partners forever, right?” He smiled, laughed and his fist bumped against my own.
“Till the end of time Walker, till the end of time.”
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Camp V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
Rainbow looked over to me and smiled, “Sam seems like a nice guy.” I reached into my pocket and pulled out a photo, I smiled sadly, codelord having woken up before the story began, walked over and looked at the picture, his eyes turned sad as he stared at the picture of my family.
“I’m sorry Admin, I didn’t realize the similarities before.” I looked up to him and smiled, “It’s no bother code...” I looked back to the picture as Rainbow walked up to me; she looked at the picture and had a confused look on her face. “Who are they?”
I looked into her eyes and my smile faded. “It’s a picture of my family, this is my father Adam.” I pointed to the tall man in the picture, “My mother Jenna.” I pointed to the dark haired woman in the picture. “Little Jenifer.” I pointed to the small little dark haired green eyed girl clutching my hand in the photo. “Myself.” I pointed to the young man on the photo, who resembled me in every way, even the jacket with the grass block and a pick and sword crossed over it. “And my brother.... Sam.” At this they all gasped, I wouldn’t blame them; they just found out that I had to kill my little brother in order to kill Herobrine. I sighed and put the photo away.
“That’s why I have to do this; my Brother needs me to pull him out of the fire and back into the frying pan. And even if it costs me my own life, I will end his suffering.”
Everyone was quiet as I stopped speaking, “Well everyone, it’s been a long day. Tomorrow we should get to High Rockwall’s main underground entrance. So let’s get some rest.” I headed over to the wagon climbed on top and flopped down on my back, staring up at the stars. I swear to you here and now, I swear I could see Sam smile in those stars that hung above my head.
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Next Morning V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
I awoke to the wagon rolling across the ground, looking down I saw Steve at the steering wheel. Looking around I saw that we had traveled for about four to five hours after they woke up. I rubbed my eyes and sat up, “Morning Steve.” A hand was raised in greetings and then lowered back to the wheel.
I opened the top hatch and landed inside the wagon. “Morning Admin.”
Codelord was sitting at a table with Rainbow Dash and Twilight, they were playing poker. I walked forwards smiling, “What’s the stakes?” He grunted “Dinner rights.” I smiled and sat down to watch. I could see Dash had nervous eyes shifting from side to side; Twilight was calm and composed..... Best damn poker face I’ve ever seen, while codelord sat there with an excited glare in his eyes.
Codelord put his cards on the table with a smile. “Three of a kind, HAH beat that!” Rainbow put her cards on the table, my eyes widened “Full house.” She smiled at codelord and he squealed out a profanity. Twilight finally broke her poker face and placed her cards down. “Royal Flush.” Everyone gathered had to pick the bottom of their jaws off the floor, except me, I laughed, “Well looks like you two aren’t eating tonight!” I laughed again and started slapping the table.
“Aw come on, one more round! I can win it back!”
Twilight shook her head and Rainbow laughed at the poor pig’s misfortune, I looked over to him with a confused expression. “How much did you lose?”
He sighed and placed his head on the ground, “All of this week’s dinner rights....” I couldn’t hold it in anymore and fell to the floor laughing, holding my sides because of the pain.
Suddenly the wagon stopped, everyone stopped laughing and spilled out on to the top of the wagon. Steve was standing on the top with a pair of binoculars over his eyes, bringing them down, he pointed off into the distance and handed me the binoculars. Taking them out of his hands I put them to my eyes and looked in the direction he pointed. “Damn, I knew something like this would happen.”
Codelord looked at me and frowned. “What’s wrong Admin?”
I looked at him and he could see the determination in my eyes. “Herobrine’s begun the chess game, and it seems he’s recruited a few new pawns.” They seemed confused by what I had said. “Steve, park the wagon in that cave there, and make sure that it’s nice and bright.” He nodded and we hopped off the wagon.
“Alright everyone, listen up close, I’m not going to repeat myself twice.” They moved a little closer and I began. “Just over the hill there, Herobrine has moved an army twice as big as the hoard that we faced at the camp. It also seems like your brother expanded the castle. There’s now a Fort on the mountain side and a few towers surrounding it. Now there’s some good news and some bad news, what one you lot want to hear first?” They looked at each other and looked back to me. “We’ll take the bad news first.”
I nodded at their decision. “The area has been tainted by Discord’s magic; this means he has been recruited by Herobrine. The area surrounding the castle is in total chaos, the only exception is the castle and fort itself. The mobs surrounding it are a formation of Spiders, Zombies, Skeletons and we’re lucky there are no Endermen there. There are also a few Wither Skeletons there, but they are being dealt with as we speak.”
They nodded their heads and I continued. “Alright then, good news is. Codelord, you’re crazy bastard of a brother is still alive, and it even seems like he’s got some survivors helping him. There seems to be a Mechanist there as well judging from the cannons I saw lined up on the wall. There are a few Tesla Coils surrounding the castle stopping anything from approaching the castle. That is also spells bad news for us, since we can’t get past the Coils.”
Again they nodded, although their faces were a bit grim. They could use some more good news. “There also appears to be a shield spell being sustained around the castle, this is also stopping anything from getting in. Twilight I don’t want you to get your hopes up thinking that Shinning is there helping Frozen.” Twilight nodded, but seemed a little overjoyed by the fact that her brother might be inside.
I clapped my hands together and smiled. “I also think that there is some wonderful thing going on at the castle, for I saw about three other ponies on the wall, plus some Day and Night guards. This might mean that either the princesses are involved now or that the guards were brought here as well. And I defiantly think I saw Spike on the walls as well.” Twilight was overjoyed by the fact that her assistant was here. “Do you know what this means?!? I can send letters to the princesses again!”
I nodded, and continued. “There also seems to be some black crystals surrounding the mountain. That means that Sombra has also been recruited, I also saw Chrysalis and some changelings there as well.” Their heads fell, downcast and before the battle had even begun they felt defeated.
I stomped my foot on the ground to get their attention. “HEY! Do not do this to me now; I’m pretty sure your friends and families haven’t given up on you yet. So don’t give up on them!” Their expressions went determined again and my own spirits rose. “Now let’s figure out a plan to get inside or to send them a message...”
Chapter Six: Dungeon Blues
A man with a white cloak stood at a half circular workstation. Surrounding him were many glass vials and alchemical ingredients that ranged from rare to all too common. He stared at the most recently completed vial that sat on a tripod with a purple cork in the top to stop the pink liquid from escaping. Slowly the Alchemist lifted the potion, off of the tripod, and into his hands. As he undid the cork, a small pink cloud floated off of the lip of the vial. The Alchemist brought the potion over to a box; which contained a small spider. Taking a small drop from the vial, he fed it to the spider. Smiling in satisfaction as the spider started to glow pink. Picking the spider out from the box, he moved over to a small station that had been prepared for his experiments.
Placing the spider onto the table, he picked up a scalpel and brought it towards the spider, aiming to cut off one of the spider's legs, only for the blade to be stopped by the pink aura surrounding the spider. His smile grew ever wider as he fervently wrote down the results of his latest test in a notebook. His curiosity got the better of him as he suddenly slammed the notebook down on the spider in an attempt to crush it. Lifting the notebook up slowly, the man observed that the spider was still standing in the same spot. The attempted crushing of the little spider had instead left a small dent in the table. Nodding in satisfaction, the Alchemist picked up the notebook and left the room, quickly scribbling down a note about the spider’s performance against the notebook.
Entering one of his strongholds larger rooms, the man walked up to a white pony in gold armour, who was currently talking to a very amused Alicorn. Noticing his presence, the Alicorn ended the conversation with the other pony, turned towards the man, and spoke; “Ah, Frozen, how goes the research?” The man lifted up the notebook, which became enshrouded in a golden aura. “It was a success? Congratulations FrozenFire_! You are the first person to create a shield potion.” The man beamed at the praise from the white Alicorn before turning towards the golden armoured pony.
He lifted out a blue coloured potion and held it out to the armoured pony. Cautiously wrapping the potion in a magenta aura, the armoured pony lifted it up so as to read the label. “What is a ‘Mana’ Potion? What is it supposed to do?” Asked the armoured pony questioned. The white Alicorn gave the Alchemist a curious stare, watching as he made the motions of drinking it. “Now why would I want to do that?” The armoured pony queried. The Alicorn chuckled at the armoured pony, before chiding him; “Shinning Armor, it’s been a few months and you still don’t trust him?”
Shinning Armor shook his head a frown clearly evident upon his face. “Sorry Princess, but no, I don't.”
The Princess sighed. “Even though he took us into his home and provided us with food. Not to mention the fact that he stopped those creatures from entering this building, stopped them from attacking us on multiple occasions, and has even given up his voice to save us. Through all of this, you still doubt his loyalties?”
Shinning Armor looked at the mute Alchemist, before sighing to himself. “I’m sorry Frozen; this world is getting to all of us. For the Princesses sake, I’ll trust you.” Shinning Armor took a swig of the potion; the effects began immediately as he felt a burst of magic course through the entirety of his being. Feeling like he could power the shield around the castle seven times over and still have energy to spare, Shinning Armor looked to the Alchemist as an overjoyed expression spread across face.
“It’s like a recharge for magic users! This is brilliant Frozen!” Shinning Armor exclaimed with glee. The mute Alchemist merely straightened his white robes and accepted the praise from the stallion. The Alchemist looked at the armoured pony with a half-smile.
The door opened as another man walked into the room. This man had a rather interesting appearance; he had a mechanical claw where one of his hands used to be. And glaring out from his scared face was a red mechanical eye. Several extra mechanical arms were connected to his back and attached to his only remaining human arm were miniature versions of the Tesla Coils. Where his leg used to be there was only a mechanical limb which, every so often, hissed as a small amount of steam spurted out of one of the joints. He walked up to them momentarily bowing his head out respect of the Princess. “Frozen, the Tesla Coils are still running fine. And the cannons are prepared to fire upon the hoard below should they move within firing range. The Plasma generator is overworked and the Scientists are working on a solution to the problem.” The man's clawed hand spun and clacked together a couple times before he continued. “Also, the clouds seem to be moving in a type of formation. We don’t know if this is due to a coming storm, or if Discord is involved in it. The guard thought it best that you be informed.” FrozenFire_ waved a hand in the air, causing the Mechanist to stop. After a few minutes, he nodded and the Mechanist completed the telling of his news.
“There also appears to be movement beyond the armies influence, one of the unicorn guard sensed a strong magical presence surrounded by four others. This may mean that more survivors have arrived, but it may also herald the arrival of Herobrine. Do you wish to send the scouts to find out what is happening?” The Mechanist asked before falling silent as he waited for further instruction. Frozen motioned for him to carry out the plan he had suggested. “It will be done my liege.” The Mechanist intoned as he bowed to both Frozen and the Princess before leaving the room.
“Well, it would appear that we have some uninvited guests, don’t we Frozen.” He stared at the window, his eyes glazed over as he stared out the window. He opened a notebook and wrote a sentence down for the princess; ‘We shall see princess, we shall see.’
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Beyond Herobrine’s Army V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
I walked towards the cave wherein Steve had parked the wagon. Inside there were a few torches on the side of the wagon, lighting up the interior of the cave. I brushed some dust off my jacket and sat down at the cave's mouth.
Rainbow walked towards me and sat down on her haunches. “So how do we get a message to everypony inside?” I looked at the rainbow mare next to me and smiled.
“We’ll I think tha-” I started to say before I was interrupted by the sound of a bow creaking right beside our heads. Two men appeared with bows in hand pointed at myself and Rainbow Dash. I hummed in admiration. “Seems you boys, have been hooked up with some high grade invisibility potions.”
They made no move to acknowledge that I had said anything, their eyes trained on myself and the mare beside me. I looked over to find Steve, Twilight, and codelord in the same situation. “So boys, now what happens?”
Suddenly, another man appeared out of nowhere. He had mechanical limbs attached to his back, his arm and one of his legs had mechanical replacements, and one of his eyes had also been replaced. I whistled as he moved towards me. “Not every day you see a Mechanist alive and well, congrats on that.” He grunted at me. “Stand and state your business here.” He ordered.
Standing up and brushing the dust off my legs, I smiled at him. “Heh, I thought one of you guys would recognise me, I guess not.” I stuck my hand out. “The names Admin Walker, this here is Rainbow Dash, that over there is Steve, Twilight Sparkle, and codelord.”
His eyes turned to slits. “Bullshit! You sure as all hell aren’t Admin Walker. He’s dead.”
I pointed at the symbol on my shoulder. “Don’t you remember, on everything I built, on everything I made, I put this symbol.” I pulled out one of my daggers and held it out to him, hilt first. “Check for yourself.”
Taking the dagger in a mechanical arm, he inspected the blade, his eye curiously going from one end of the dagger to another. “This is one of his daggers alright. Still, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t have just found one.”
I sighed again, his leg hissing out some steam as I shook my head. He continued speaking; “Alright boys. We got a teleporter set up nearby, follow the lord’s orders and let’s get them inside. Oh, and he wants them to wake up later.”
The guards each took out a potion, pulled rags over their faces, and threw the potions on the ground, where they exploded into clouds of green smoke. I took a whiff of the air.
“Chloroform how qua......” I landed face first on the ground and fell asleep.
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V High Rockwall V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
FrozenFire_ stood on top of the largest tower, directly in the centre of the above ground fort. The Pile Driver, one of the first massive cannons that the Mechanist had built, stood behind him. Casting a dark shadow over the future battlefield, he smiled as a runner came through the trapdoor.
“My lord, the scouts have returned! The Mechanist has arrived back with the intruders. He says that one of them claims to be Admin Walker, sire.”He turned to face the runner, his eyes narrowing in suspicion. “My lord, the Mechanist has separated him from the rest of the group and taken him to a holding cell. The rest are being guarded in your quarters.”
He waved a hand and dismissed the runner, turning back to face the hoard below. A there was a brief flash of white light and the Princess appeared next to him. “I heard about the intruders.” The Princess began, taking a moment to look at the Alchemist. He waited for her to continue. “I wish to meet them before you do anything, some of them may be my subjects, and I do not wish harm to befall them.” He nodded towards the Princess and she disappeared in a flash of white.
Frozen mentally sighed to himself and brought his hands to his head, trying to sooth the headache that was beginning to make its presence known. He grabbed his staff that was lying against the railing; a crystal orb on the top of a metal rod. Waving a hand over the orb, an image of the intruders appeared. Two of them were ponies while one was a resident Minecraftian, and one was...... was that a pig? What was a pig doing inside the fort?
He rubbed his temples and tried to fight off the pain, this was so confusing. First he appeared inside his castle, and then these annoying ponies appeared who were so distrusting of him, even when he had offered his castle as a refuge for all those who had been brought here. Then Herobrine appeared and tried to recruit him. When he refused the bastard severed his vocal cords and cut out his tongue. Then Herobrine sent assassins tried to murder him, then hoard below him, and now this? It was all too much.
He screamed out in silent rage and smashed the butt of the staff against the floor, causing several cracks to spread out in all directions. Again he sighed mentally to himself. What did he have to go through just to get some peace and quiet? All he wanted to do was brew his potions and further his knowledge of magic and science. He leaned against the staff and stared at the setting sun. Today marked the third month here. A celebration was in order, for surviving this long in the harsh world they had been thrust into.
Shaking his head, Frozen gathered some magic into the staff and tapped it lightly against the stone below him. A flash of blue magic later and he had teleported to the dungeons.
He nodded to one of the guards, and they opened the entrance to the dungeon. He walked down the barely lit corridors of the dark dungeon, red light reflecting of the damp floors. He walked towards the guarded room and noticed the guard twitching. His eyebrow raised in confusion, until he too heard it.
~Yes! It goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because!
This is the song that doesn’t end!
Yes! It goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because! ~
He smiled in amusement as one of the guards finally snapped and started hurling profanities into the cell, which only made the prisoner laugh at the guard. Frozen mentally chuckled to himself as he walked towards the guards, the one guard who hadn’t snapped yet stood at attention while the other had his back to him, still shouting profanities to the person inside.
Frozen tapped the top of the guard's helmet with his steel staff, causing the guard to gulp audibly, he smiled at him as the guard turned to face him. “M-my lord, I-I was just talking to the prisoner!” The guard pleaded. Frozen shook his head and waved a hand, dismissing the guards. They saluted and left.
He opened the door and walked inside to find the prisoner tied to a chair. The prisoner's back was to him and on a table lay the prisoner’s inventory; a white Alchemical bag and two other colours of Alchemical bags, a pair of twin daggers in sheaths on a belt, a jacket with a symbol of a MineCraft grass block with a red sword and pick crossed over the top of it, along with a bow, a stack of arrows. Lastly, a black travelling cloak was laid out over the table top. Frozen nodded in admiration of the prisoner’s inventory, it was well organised.
The prisoner coughed to get his attention and he noticed the blue hair and the pair of red wings attached to his bare back. He had a good physique, medium build, toned muscles, with tanned skin. He was wearing black jeans with black combat boots on. “As much as I LOOOVE sitting here in a damp chair in a dark cold dungeon, I would love some hot coco, a warm bed and some clean clothes.”
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Perspective Change Admin Walker V^V^V^V^V^V^V
I sat staring at the wall, waiting for the person who had entered my cell to respond to my sarcasm, when he didn’t reply I felt... sad, yet another person without a sense of humour. I sighed, but upon hearing the tap of metal on stone, I realised that the man or woman was walking around me. A few seconds later the man with blue and red hair entered my vision. He had a white science cloak and the T-shirt he wore underneath looked to be on fire. He wore blue pants and bright blue shoes. His eyes were different colours, one red and one blue. The pair of gloves that wore made it seem as if his fists were on fire. His smiling face was covered in stubble. Leaning on a steel staff topped with a small crystal ball, his smile widened.
“Oh, so you do have a sense of humour?” A nod from the strange man made me continue. “Well, it’s good to see you again Frozen.” His eyes turned to slits as I stared at him; “Oh come off it Frozen, I thought you would remember me from the war, but I guess I have to remind you.” I stood up, surprising Frozen and causing him to backup into the wall. Swatting the dust off my pants, I stuck out my hand. “Admin Walker.” Frozen’s eyes widened in shock as he remembered me, he stuck his hand into my own. We shared a strong handshake and I moved towards my gear.
“Been a long time Frozen, you have no idea the kind of crap I went through to get here.” Frozen rolled his eyes and motioned to the pony guards outside. “Yea I figured you had it harder than I did, with all this 'Herobrine’s army' business.” The Alchemist nodded as I continued;
“Well let’s see; first off, I appeared near the Obsidian Fortress. Next I met up with Steve and Twilight Sparkle, that’s Princess Celestia’s student. After that I went for a night flight, met Herobrine, had my Admin powers stripped from me, got chucked off a skyscraper-of-a-tree and impacted on the ground, met Rainbow Dash; fastest flier in all of Equestria, met your brother-turned-pig; codelord.” Frozen's eye held a look of mirth upon hearing the last part. “Defeated a hoard of zombies with naught but my own two daggers, travelled over two kilometres to get here and then I got captured by your goons.” I finished, putting all of my equipment back on.
Turning to face him, I had a confused look in my eyes. “By the way, who the heck is that Mechanist? He’s interesting.”
He had an amused smile on his face, pointing to his throat he made a slitting motion and cutting motion where his tongue used to... oh.
My face grimaced in mock pain; “Ouch man, that must have hurt.” He shrugged. Digging out a purple vial and pointed to the label on it. “You made a potion of Painkillers? Smart.” He nodded. “Well, I’m going to go find the gals, want to come?” Again, all I got was a nod from him. “Well let’s go then!” With that we walked out of the dungeon and began heading upstairs.
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Upstairs: Frozen’s Quarters V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
Rainbow woke up to find herself in a comfortable bed. Confused, she got up, tearing the blankets off in the process. Looking around the room, she noticed that there were two other beds which had Twilight and Steve in them. The door opened and a very familiar purple and green dragon entered the room.
“Oh my gosh Spike! What are you doing here!?” Spike smiled at Rainbow Dash before responding.
“We were all brought here Rainbow, even the Princess is here.” Rainbow’s eyes widened at the good news.
“That’s awesome news! We can ask her to get us back to Equestria!” Spike looked down at the floor and sighed.
“The Princess already tried Rainbow, as soon as we were safe from the dangers of this world.” He looked her in the eyes and saw the pain behind them. “The spell didn’t work Rainbow; we’re stuck here until we find a different way home.”
Codelord groaned as he awoke, “Did anyone get the number of the Truck that hit me?”
Rainbow looked at him, confused by what he said. “What’s a Truck?” He shook his head to get rid of the dizziness. “Never mind, forget I said anything.”
Steve bolted upright; he went to reach for his sword only to find it missing. He looked around the room and relaxed as he saw Rainbow Dash and codelord not panicking in the slightest. Slowly, he got out of the bed and walked over to them and sat down at the table, where an assortment of foods and drinks had been placed.
The pig looked to Steve and smiled. “Are you alright Steve?” He got a nod from the mute Minecraftian before he looked at the bed that Twilight was sleeping in. “When is she going to wake up?”
Spike shrugged in response to the pigs question, “Twi’ was always an early riser, and she must be tired because of all the stress of what’s going on.” Everyone gathered nodded at the little dragon’s assumption.
The door opened again and a white Alicorn walked into the room. “Ah, Spike, I see that you've reunited with your friends.” Spike nodded and walked over to Twilight’s bed, where he sat in a comfy chair to wait for her to wake up. “Rainbow Dash, it’s good to see you again.”
Rainbow smiled at the Princess. “It’s good to see you too your highness. How is everything going?”
The Princess sighed and spoke. “Well, everything inside is going just fine, it’s what's going on outside that's a little bit tricky to explain. Please tell me how you ended up here.”
Rainbow looked over at the door before responding. “I think somepony else can explain that better than me your highness.” Rainbow said as she pointed a hoof at the door. The Princess turned to the direction Rainbow was pointing, gasping as she saw the person who was now in front of her.
He was just a few feet shorter than her and had blue hair and blue eyes. He wore a black jacket with a symbol of a grass block with a red sword and pick crossed over it, a pair of black jeans, combat boots, a pair of dark blue fingerless gloves. Stretched out behind him was a pair of wings. The wings were nearly the same length as the Princess’s own, and had red feathers with black tips. Across his chest was a pair of iron daggers rested in two sheaths that were attached to an X shaped belt that went diagonally across his muscular chest. A charming smile plastered across his face as he casually leaned against the door frame with one arm while his other hand was in his pocket. Pulling his hand out of his pocket, he casually waved to the Princess.
“Evening Celestia, beautiful afternoon is it not?” Rainbow stared at him with a look of shock and slight admiration at his choice to disrespect the Princess’s title. This Princess only smiled back at him before kindly asking;
“And who might you be?” He scoffed and looked at the mute Alchemist beside him. “I thought you told her.” Frozen shook his head and smiled, indicating with his hand that he should introduce himself.
Shaking his head, the man walked towards the Princess. Sticking out his hand he spoke. “Name’s Admin, Admin Walker. Local hero, defeater of zombie hoards, tamer of the wolves of the wild, builder of the Obsidian Fortress. Hero to the free Peoples of Minecraftia, Hero of the Hoard Wars, and defeater of Herobrine’s previous reincarnation, but none of that really matters right now.”
Celestia was impressed with the amount of titles that he had, she spoke to him, while shaking his hand. “Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria, Goddess of the sun.”
He cocked an eyebrow as they shook hands/hooves and smiled at the white Alicorn. “Oho! Goddess of the sun, that’s an impressive title. Well I might as well add my final titles in there for the sake of introduction.”
He cleared his throat and stepped away from her and towards the window. He stopped and turned around; the sun was at his back. The light shining through his red-black feathers, causing them shine as well. His blue hair also began to shine as it was framed by the evening light. “I am as I said Admin Walker, brother of Herobrine, and last Admin, or one of the last Gods as we were called, alive in this world.” He half smiled at her, making himself seem more impressive in the evening light. “It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Princess Celestia.”
Chapter 7: Nightfall Part One
Nightfall – Part 1
Discord walked through the hoard of zombies; they were more quiet than normal. A single tent stood out amongst the hoard, the withering masses parted as he walked along the checkerboard ground. Walking into the tent he saw Chrysalis and Sombra at a table with a map on it. Clicking his fingers chairs appeared around the table and glasses of chocolate milk on the table. Sitting in one of the chairs Discord frowned.
“So how are we going to get inside the fortress, the shield is still active and those ‘Tesla Coils’ are still active as well.” He sighed as the two nodded sagely. “You know what, you guys are no fun. I’m the spirit of ‘Chaos’ and Disharmony! Not a damn scout.”
Chrysalis sighed. “My changelings are capable of turning into other ‘ponies’ not these ‘humans’ or ‘Minecraftians’. Therefore with your abilities to randomly move about, we can tell locations of guards and other beings on the walls.”
Sombra nodded agreeing with Chrysalis completely, Discord sighed again. “Fine I’ll do it, but as soon as we’re inside I’m going to have a little fun with them.”
Their orbs all glowed and they all saw a throne room that was made of the blackest materials. Upon the throne sat a hooded figure with black wings, white glowing eyes came from under the cowl of the hood. A large black gem sat imbedded in the wall above the black throne. Torches of black fire burned along the walls, and the gem radiated dark power. The figure was pale underneath the hood, although none could see his face except his mouth and the glowing eyes. He wore a large black cloak, with a black scale from the EnderDragon shaped into a semicircle that covered one of his shoulders. A pure black blade leaned against the side of the throne.
“Ah, good to see you three again, how fares the siege of High Rockwall?”
Sombra was the one to respond. “Lord Herobrine, they have as you would put them ‘cannons’ that are overlooking the entire army. If we walk into range they will open fire and obliterate the entire army in mere minutes. If we could request some spiders, we might get an edge over them if they get over the walls and disable their cannons.”
Herobrine chuckled, “As you wish Sombra, I will send you the spiders. But I better get results.” He leaned forwards from his throne, finishing off in a menacing tone. “Don’t make me come down there Sombra. Or you will regret it.”
The image faded from their visions, the three looked at each other in worry. What had Herobrine meant by that? What would he do if they did not succeed in their task? They sure as all hell didn’t want to find out.
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I sat leaning back in a chair with my boots on the table; my eyes were open and I had a pair of sunglasses over my eyes, and although I looked asleep to those gathered around, I in fact wasn’t. The table in front was surrounded by other ponies, people and Minecraftians that they had gathered for the U.M.H.P.H.O, the United Minecraftian Human Pony Herobrine Offense.
I listened closely to what the newest Mechanist Scout Captain SilentAnth was saying. “I say we take the fight to them! We obviously have more firepower, let’s use it against them! We fire ‘The Pile Diver’ and wipe out their entire army in one fell swoop.” He tapped a finger on the little red flag that indicated where the hoard was, knocking it over. “Then we march in and take out any stragglers.” People in favor of this idea where nodding their heads and murmuring in approval, that is until ShinningArmor spoke up.
“Have you seen the forces gathered against us? Have you bothered to look out the widow recently? No? Then what you are proposing for us to do is in fact, a bad idea and will most likely get us all killed. I propose that we sneak around here.” he pointed to a spot on the giant map. “Of course the first thing we would have to do is eliminate their archers and spiders. After that though, things start to get tricky. I propose that we release a timed barrage from the plasma cannons to keep the hoard at bay. Then, when ‘The Pile Diver’ is fully charged we attack the main army. This way we don’t have to send anyone out who isn’t good in combat, no unnecessary losses.” Ponies, Humans and Minecraftians nodded and spoke their approval of the Guard Captains sound logic. The ones with SilentAnth spoke out their disapproval; the two sides began arguing with each other.
I sighed silently to myself; over the dull conversation a single voice broke out “Will you all be quiet!” the man slammed his hand into the table for added effect. Everyone gathered stopped their talking and turned to stare. “I know what you’re all thinking right now..... Both of these ideas sound good to you, and yet they both sound like bad ideas at the same time.” The man shook his head. “We need to work together here people, not be at each other’s throats.” Everyone gathered nodded their heads in approval of the man. I smirked, just a small one, completely unnoticeable to them. Finally though someone was getting the situation sorted out.
One of the Ponies gathered spoke out. “What are we going to do about the spiders though? It’s obvious, come nightfall that they will attack us.” More nods and murmurs of agreement.
I chuckled then, which gained everyone’s attention. “Isn’t it obvious?” My question was met with confused stares. I lifted the shades off my eyes and placed them in my inventory. “We let them in.” Before I could continue my proposal was met with the roars of anger and disapproval of most of the people gathered. I sighed to myself as they yelled at me; I shook my head, I stood up. Everyone quietened down, confusion replacing what was rage and disbelief but moments ago. I climbed onto the table and stood in the middle, my wings tucked neatly behind my back. “Now, are you going to let me continue? Or are you going to interrupt me for the umpteenth time.”
I turned towards the separate groups, staring at all of them in turn before continuing. “Like I said before I was rudely INTERRUPTED.” Some of the Ponies turned away with sheepish looks on their faces. “We let them in.....” I held up a hand to stem the incoming tide of disapproval. “But we don’t just ‘let’ them in so easily.” They turned towards me with confusion evident on their faces.
I smiled at them, making them even more confused. “I say, we let them in. And when they DO come in, we ambush them.” I point to some of the buildings on the map. “We post archers inside the buildings, here..... Here...... And right here!” Some of the groups gained thoughtful looks at my plan.
“When they enter, we trap them inside a repulsion shield spell, with the top of it open. When the filthy monsters enter it, the sides of the shield with push them into the center, allowing the archers to take the cleanest shots available to take them out. If this is not the only area of attack they do move into. We should place archers in this quadrant as well, same routine. Repulsion shield, archers in the buildings, kills the filthy monsters.” I tapped a finger on the map for emphasis, many of the groups nodding and murmured at the clearly sound plan.
Shinning Armor, the leader of the Guard Ponies and representative of the Princess, SilentAnth current leader of the Humans who have been trapped in Minecraftia, and the mysterious leader of the Minecraftians all looked in my direction. Shinning Armor cleared his throat. “It is a sound plan Admin. We agree with this course of action.”
I nodded, determined to succeed, at the gathered groups of the U.M.H.P.H.O.
“We begin at nightfall.....”
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I sat on top of the tallest tower I could find, staring off into the dwindling day. The Pile Diver stood tall behind me, stacks of ammo for the massive cannon laid beside it. The familiar clip-clop of hooves across the stone sounded behind me and I sighed.
Rainbow Dash sat down next to me. “Do you think that we can get rid of them?” My gaze stared between my two dangling feet, down at the city below a thin smile raising the corners of my mouth.
I shifted a bit, so that Rainbow was more comfortable beside me. I looked out towards the flickering sun that was falling out of sight. “Do you want to know what my father would say, if he were here right now?”
Rainbow looked at my face, which was still staring at the city below us. “He would say one of two things, the first one being. ‘Boy, I don’t want to know what you did to get into this situation. But all I got to say is this; don’t make the same mistakes I did. Never forget what you are fighting for. For if you forget what makes you want to fight, then you might as well surrender right now.’ He always knew what to say about situations like these.” I raised one finger and pointed towards the dwindling sun.
“The second thing he would say is this, ‘Spend every moment with those you love the most, for those are the times most precious to us. And it makes you look forwards to tomorrow.’”
Rainbow looked at the sun where I had pointed. “He sounds like a man who knows his stuff.” A smile tugged at the corners of my lips. “Aye that he was.....”
“So who do you love the most?” The smile faded from my face as I raised my head from staring down onto the city. “Who do I love the most?” Rainbow nodded at me and I sighed.
“That’s just the thing Rainbow..... Who do I love the most? It’s one of the biggest questions I have asked myself in my time alive. ‘Who do you love Walker?’” I shook my head the answer obvious since I had thought a long time about it. “My friends and family would be one, another would be you girls.”
She cocked her head to one side. “But you only met us a few days ago. What have we ever done for you?”
I snorted and continued. “In my world, we have many things. But none of them equal the amount of things I have seen in your world.” I raised a clenched fist and started numbering of on my fingers the amount of things that would help my world. “Magic, we could do so much with it. Just think of it, a new field of research, thought to never be real. And yet, I see it all the time in your world. Rulers as kind as Celestia and Luna, if we had someone like them two leading our world, we wouldn’t be as barbaric as we are, there would be no wars, no conflicts, only peace...... Heroes, if we had heroes like you girls on Earth. Then our problems would be solved. The last thing that’s important. Friendship..... If I saw the level of friendship you share with the girls in our world... well there wouldn’t be anything to fight about in the first place.”
I looked at the city below us and smiled. “In my world there is a ‘fictional’ show,” I emphasized the fictional part with my fingers. “It shows your world, and this has helped many people to overcome these problems in our world. So you see, what you are doing is helping us. You girls have helped my world blossom into something beautiful. And every human here can thank you for that.”
A single tear escaped my eyes and I felt a wing being draped over my back, I looked up and saw Rainbow smiling softly at me. “We’ve only known each other for a few days Admin. But over our time together everypony has come to trust you. Nopony here would betray you, not me, not Twilight, nor Steve or Codelord. We’re a group, and nothing can separate us.”
“She’s right you know.” Rainbow and I turned and saw our friends all there. Twilight and Steve, FrozenFire_ and codelord, Shining Armor and Princess Celestia, all of them were smiling at me. I realized that these friends will never abandon me, I smiled again at the seven friends gathered around me. Together we stared at the setting sun, knowing full well what would be coming when night falls.
A single man walked the dark streets, heading towards the gigantic metal doors that stood, towering over the city streets. His metal leg clanking against the cobblestone on the floor, whilst his metallic arm hissed in the cool night, arcs of lightening traced down the miniature Tesla Coils imbedded into his arm. Reaching the gate two guards crossed their spears into the man’s path.
“Sorry, Admin has not permitted anyone to leave the city. This includes you Captain SilentAnth.”
Steam hissed out of Anth’s metal leg and a cruel smile played across his face. He lifted his hand and twin arcs of electricity shot out of his palm to impact against the two guards iron breastplates.
“You boys are way out of your league, best you get some sleep.”
The two guards fell to the floor smoke smouldering of their bodies. The man continued his journey out of the city gate, his journey leading him towards the checkerboard land beyond and a single tent in the distance. Dark smile covered his face.
He chuckled menacingly to the night sky; his chuckles soon broke out in to a dark menacing laugh as he walked towards the hoard below. “Time to get me some old fashioned payback, and this time, you won’t have anyone to save you.”
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Sombra stared at the mechanical man sitting in the corner of the room, his gaze burning into the man’s eyes. Discord sat upside down in a beach chair sipping at his golden goblet of chocolate milk, he casually sighed as he sat there. Chrysalis was the only one who engaged in conversation with the man robot thing, and what they had learned had piqued their interests.
Black smoke drifted around Sombra and he spoke in a cold tone, devoid of emotion. “So you are willing to let us into High Rockwall, upon the conditions of sparing your pitiful life and killing Admin Walker and his group?”
The mechanical being they had come to know as SilentAnth nodded. “Aye as long as these conditions are met, I couldn’t give two shits what you three do to anyone else.”
Discord laughed a hearty and full blown laugh. “I like this one Sombra! He’s got spirit, and guts to think that we would agree to his pitiful, annoying terms.”
The mechanical being smiled knowingly, “But do you have a choice, to not agree?”
Discord scowled and his char disappeared with a soft poof, “Look here mister rusty, I don’t trust traitors, because they betray people.”
Chrysalis sat in the corner with an amused expression on her face. The sounds of hissing and moaning echoing around the camp alerted them to the time.
Sombra looked toward Discord. “We need to prepare, send him out.”
Discord clicked his fingers and the human Mechanist was teleported away from the room. “I agree with sending him out Sombra, I take it you don’t trust him either?”
“I trust them about as far as I can throw them.”
The chaotic creature scoffed at him. “Come now, we both know that you can throw these Humans as far as you would like.”
“It was a metaphor Discord, a metaphor.”
Chrysalis gained a smug expression to her bug like features and she started humming her wings. Sombra looked over to the Changeling, a hint of confusion evident on hid face.
“What is it Chrysalis?” Said Changeling started beaming with joy.
“They are beginning the night shift; there will be fewer guards now. My Changelings also report that there are lesser guards tonight, some of them might be slacking off.”
Sombra’s features turned into a suspicious frown. “That is unusual.... Send in a few scouts, we need to know a better report.”
Chrysalis scowled at the dark magician pony. “Do you doubt my Changelings powers of observation? They are the best spies and assassins that you will ever find.”
Sombra walked towards the bug-mare, scowling all the while. “I do not doubt your Changelings; I am simply saying that we need more information than they might be slacking off. For all we know they could be preparing a trap for the Spiders.”
Chrysalis got off the chair and hovered into the air, pointing a holey hoof at the dark pony. “And what if you are wrong Sombra, what if they are not preparing a trap and we send these extra spies in. We might be discovered and our entire plan will be destroyed all because of your foolishness.”
Discord landed on the ground between the two, raising his two mismatched paws to block both of the offending parties. “Ladies, calm down would you? I actually think that Chrysalis is right on this one Sombra.”
The dark smoke intensified around the dark magician. “Fine, I will trust your judgement Chrysalis. But hear me now; I will not bear the blame should this fail.”
A silence descended upon the three, all of them contemplating the course of action they were about to take upon and what might be the consequences to their actions. None of the three wanted to know what should happen if they were to fail.
All through this time a sinister presence was watching with interest, a smile tugging at the corners of his lips, his hood obscuring any vision of his face. A menacing chuckle escaped his lips, soon breaking forth into an evil and dark laugh.
“This war just got a tad bit more interesting.”
Chapter 7: Nightfall Part Two
Nightfall – Part 2
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During another meeting of the U.M.H.P.H.O the unicorns and local magi introduced a Magic image display before the gathered assembly. The image showed the groups stationed in each quadrant of the city. Each member of the group was equipped with a bow and some arrows along with a unicorn present for each spell to take place. Each squad had a communicator in order to receive new orders from command, which was set up in the main dinning hall of the castle inside the city. There were the main leaders of each group except the missing leader of the Mincraftians, SilentAnth. He had been replaced with a spirited young lad who told us his name was Gamer. It was a shorted name, and he would spare no other details of it.
It was my idea to split the groups into named squads, as the people and ponies in it would be spending a vast amount of time together. The first group was named Sword, for most of the groups talents lay in the art of the sword or some other form of close quarters combat. The second group was called Shield, for their talents lay in defence of the shield type or magical barriers. The third group was named Spear, for their talents lay in long range weaponry. The last and final group was called Medico; their talents lay in the arts of brewing healing potions or casting healing spells. Each main group was given a main leader, I was given Sword, Shinning Armor was given Shield, Spear went to Gamer and Medico was given to the newest addition to our Captain group, Zecora.
Zecora had joined our Captains when she was found just outside the Hoard Camp. She had been wandering for days before the scouts that we had sent out found her. When I was on the roof after the others had left, she was released from the infirmary and ran into our quiet friend, FrozenFire_. He took her to the lab and the two had remained for some time, brewing up a storm of potions that would make even the best alchemist green with envy. Even I was surprised with what the two had cooked up.
I tapped the quill against the ink pot and sighed. “Alright that’s enough writing for now. Hmmm, just like Twilight said, it is good to keep a record of things.”
A tap at the door alerted me to someone else’s presence. I hummed. “Ah! It’s open!”
The door was caught in a purple glow, Twilight and Steve walked into the room. Looking over my shoulder I grinned at them. “Oh hey guys! I was just finishing up my writing.”
Twilight raised an eyebrow and Steve folded his arms. “You have taken up writing Admin?”
I scoffed at the statement. “Nah, it’s more like a diary account of events leading up till now. Maybe later on I could get you guys to write your side of the story.” I chuckled to myself. “What a story all of this will make when it’s all over.”
Steve smiled and nodded his head. “I mean it’s only been a few days since I got here, but for you guys it’s more like almost a year now isn’t it?”
Twilight placed a hoof to her chin in thought. “Actually I think it’s closer to four months now.”
I hummed. “Oh well. It’ll probably be a year by the time this war is over. Probably longer if we can’t find a way back to our respective homes.”
Steve rolled his eyes and I smiled. “Ahhh come one Steve, we know this is your home but what about us? Twilight’s got a Library to run in Ponyville and, well Celestia’s got a country to get back to. Speaking of princesses.... I wonder if Luna is here as well. That would be an interesting thought.”
Twilight shifted from side to side. “Actually Admin, I don’t know if it’s common knowledge yet but...”
I laughed and it stopped her from continuing her sentence. “If you’re about to say that you and Steve are an item, then it’s too late. I already know. Probably the entire castle knows to, with the amount of time you two spend together. To be honest Twi’ didn’t take you to like the strong silent type.”
Steve made an ‘are you fucking kidding me face’, which in turn, just caused me to laugh, really, really, loud. All the time Twilight was blushing at my observation skills. Oh well, time to get going.
“Anyway, our group is scheduled for a catch-up in a few minutes, this time with a few new additions. Namely Shining Armor and the princess but that’s about it.”
Twilight cocked her head to the side. “What about the attack tonight. Aren’t you worried?”
“Pssh. I ain’t worried about it. The captains can handle things in our absence, if anything dire comes up; they know where to find us.”
Together Twilight, Steve and myself walked towards the room specially put aside for the group that was originally my own. We walked through the quiet stone brick walls of the castle, occasionally passing a guard pony who would salute as I passed them. Might as well strike up a conversation as we walk, or else this will be too boring.
“So Twi’, do you mind if I ask a question?”
Said mare smiled. “Sure go ahead.”
“What’s life like in Ponyville?”
A small laugh was what I got in return. “Well, life is really quiet.”
I scoffed. “Hey you live in a Library; of course it’s going to be quiet.”
Steve smiled and Twilight continued. “Well.... yes, I do live in a quiet place in Ponyville. But the rest of it is fairly loud, for example Vinyl Scratch’s music in the early mornings usually wakes up half of Ponyville, and that’s just her alarm.” I suppressed a laugh as we walked, keep it cool man. “Usually it’s quiet. And by quiet I mean nothing exciting really happens. But then again, Ponyville has been sort of a hotspot for weird activity.”
I held a finger up. “Like the return of Discord?” Twilight blinked twice, and nodded. “Well, yes. Moments like that are when the usual quiet place turns into a really noisy place.”
“Ok then, please continue.” I said whilst nodding. Hmmm looks like Steve is really paying attention to this.
“Well there are normal days in Ponyville,” I gave her a flat look. “O.K. Mostly normal days, but it’s normal in its own way. Like the day we spent during winter, having a massive snowball fight with all the participants in teams of six. That was the most fun during that winter; afterwards we all went inside for some hot coco.”
She looked up to me when she finished. “What about you, do you have any memories of Sam. Before the whole Herobrine affair, I mean.”
I couldn’t really say what happened then but my vision sort of blurred and a single memory came to mind.....
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“Addie! Addie! Look what I found!” my brother tore into my room holding a white ball of fluff in his hands, jumping up and down constantly.
I placed the quill down and turned the chair around to face him, an eyebrow raised in question and a smile on my face. “Oh? What have ya found little bro?”
He held the little fluff ball up to him so I could look at it. “Look Addie! A bunny rabbit, can we keep him? Can we, please?”
A hearty laugh escaped from my lungs, “Hahahahaha, you know what, Sammy! Sure, why not!” I placed a hand on his shoulder a huge smile on my face. “We can look after him together!”
My little brother smiled the hugest smile I had ever seen upon his little face. My heart was warm at that moment; a feeling of doing something good came upon my shoulders. He was about to tear off again but I wrapped my arms around him and I placed my little brother on the chair next to me.
“Now now, one moment before you go tearing off to play with your new friend.”
“Awww....”
I smiled and lifted his chin so he looked at me. “Hey no need to frown, he just needs a name!” His mouth opened up into that huge smile I loved to see on Sam’s face.
“OK! What should we name him Addie?!?”
I hummed in thought before thinking up a name. “How about a nice name that suits him, so Snow Flake?”
He giggled and hugged me. “That suits him Addie! Thanks for helping!”
I placed my hand on his head and ruffled his hair. “Ha-ha! No prob’ little man! Now go off and play!”
He ran out holding his newest friend, giggling and laughing all the while....
God I loved that smile.....
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“Ad- are- th?”
“Huh? Did you say something?”
“I said are you there? You kind of zoned out for a bit. Is something wrong?”
I shook my head and felt my checks, feeling the hot tears on them. “N-no Twi’ nothing’s wrong.” I sighed and rubbed my eyes. “Just remembering some fond memories....”
Yea I still loved that smile....
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A figure sat on a black jeweled throne, a sword that was as black as night lent against the sinister black marble throne. Torches powered by dark magic illuminated the walls. In front of the figure, cupped in the palm of one hand sat a single orb. The orb showed a Castle at night time, surrounded by many a fell beast. It showed holes in the ground where spiders had once dug and busted through to the other side of the Tesla Coils. But the figure wasn’t interested in what was happening outside the castle, with but a thought the image of the castle magnified so that it showed what was happening inside its brightly coloured walls.
Spiders of varying shapes and colours raced through the streets, only to be stopped by multicolored shields, then to be bombarded by arrows and killed. The figure did not like this; it did not tolerate failure of any sort, not even from its own subordinates. The figure blinked as each spider was brutally murdered before its eyes; it felt each of their life forces slowly dwindle out of existence. Each and every monster was connected to him and he felt their pain, but did not experience the pain itself.
The figure closed its eyes and sighed, its clawed gauntlet slowly crushing the orb in its hand. Fractures slowly began to appear on the surface of the orb, second by agonizing second passed and slowly, the orb fractured more. The pressure being produced by the figures gauntleted hand was enough to crush an iron bar. The orb could no longer take the pressure being dealt to it and exploded into millions of shards that fell to the black tiled floor below.
The figure raised its hand to its face and frowned, this was wrong it thought. This wasn’t supposed to happen; he was unbeatable, immortal, Godlike and unstoppable. And yet, it had happened. All it took him to realize this was a single shard, no bigger than a pine needle. He watched the shard, fury evident in his gaze. If gazes could burn, then the shard would have vaporized out of existence at that moment. But just like the ones the figure fought, it stayed there defiant, this defiance stood immortal to the tests of time, it stood against the injustice of the world around it.
The figure reached towards the shard with its other hand, and quickly plucked the defiant shard from its finger. The figure’s eyes widened as it saw the dark splotch leave its skin to trail down its hand. It watched with horror as the dark splotch fell from its hand to hit the black tiled floor below. Its hand shook as realization of the true horror of its situation now dawned upon it.
Gods don’t bleed.
Chapter 7: Nightfall Part Three
Nightfall – Part 3
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“Is that the last of them sergeant?” I asked through the communicator that was built by magic and science, personally hand crafted by our local mad scientist Frozen.
“Aye sir” Gamer responded. “That the last of the blighted buggers. Hang on a moment Captain....” A single twang was heard as a bowstring snapped back against the wood of the bow. A spider’s screech was heard from the other side of the communicator. Gamer coughed to clear his throat. “Sorry about the false report, now it is the last of the blighted buggers.”
I smiled as the last reports of the area’s being cleared came in through the communicator. The rest of the gathered groups sighed in relief as the last report from the sergeant went through. Shinning Armor walked up to me and smiled.
“Well Admin, looks like your plan worked like a charm. No casualties either, you would make a good general you know.”
I waved off the praise from the pony next to me. “I’ve been a general once, during the last war. That was not a pretty experience and I do not wish to be repeating it.”
“What happened during the last war sir?” One of the guard ponies asked me from the corner of the room.
My head rested in the cup of my palms, a single long drawn out sigh escaped my lips as I thought back onto one of the many battle I had had to face during my time as High-General of the Minecraftian forces.
“Let’s just say.... That war never changes.”
I lifted my eyes to face Shinning Armor. “If you need me I’ll be in my quarters.” When he nodded I gathered myself up and headed towards the tower my room was stationed in. Something tells me this is going to be a long night.
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V A Few Hours Later V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
‘A sweet dream is only a sweet dream until it turns into a nightmare....’ that is what my father once told me, and that is what this dream was slowly becoming....
I was sitting in a lush green meadow whilst Samuel and White Snow frolicked around the field giggling all the while. A smile tugged at the corners of my lips as I wrote on the parchment in front of me. Samuel fell down onto a group of flowers sending a few of them flying up into the air. A single raindrop fell onto the almost dry ink, making it turn into a black spot. Frowning I looked up and saw the storm clouds. I looked around and noticed that everything had taken on a grey tinge, which was also when I noticed that White Snow was sitting alone in the field. Getting up I looked around the quickly fading field.
“Samuel? Where are you?”
A single scream was heard and I started running towards it. The grey trees slowly disappeared and the landscape started decaying around me. The grass withered up and turned to ashes, leaving the earth charred and black like rock.
“Samuel! Where are you?!”
That was when I heard him.
“Addie! Help me!”
I sprinted across the rocky terrain, tears streaming from my face. I saw him.... on the edge of a cliff, with his fingers slowly slipping off the edge. “Don’t worry Sammy! I’m coming!”
“Addie!”
His grip loosened bit by bit and still, I was too far away to save him. My little brother plummeted over the edge of the cliff, screaming all the way.
“SAMMY!”
I halted at the edge of the black as night cliff, the sharp rocks digging into my knees as I fell down upon them. Bringing my hands up to my face I saw that they were stained with blood. The rain turning red as if blood was falling from the heavens, the trees behind me were set ablaze by an unknown force. Tears bolted down my checks as I wept, just as I was about to scream out in anger and sadness a dark menacing voice filled the air.
“Give it up Admin; just like you couldn’t save Samuel in the end, you can’t save these little ponies, or the Humans. Just like last time, I will prevail.”
His dark menacing tone was replaced with a boy’s sweet innocent voice, now tainted with the darkness that followed behind it.
“Just like you couldn’t save me....”
V^V^V^V^V
I bolted awake a scream dying upon my lips, sweat sticking my skin to the sheets. Now I remember why I never slept for very long, and when I did it was always with the help of medication to give me dreamless sleeps.
I clutched my knees to my chest and bent my head down, silently weeping to myself. “I-I’m sorry S-Sammy. I-I couldn’t save you.....”
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Elsewhere a few minutes prior V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
Rainbow Dash walked into the room that was occupied by a group of ponies and a few humans and one pig. She walked in and sat down on the faded yellow couch, looking around the room, all present could tell that one person was missing.
“Where is Admin? Isn’t he supposed to be here as well?”
Shinning Armor smiled at the rainbow mare. “He left to get some sleep; this whole affair has probably tuckered him out.”
Rainbow Dash nodded and moved over slightly to make way for the quiet Alchemist. He slumped down onto the yellow couch and gave a silent sigh of content. She smiled slowly at the quiet being next to her.
“Take it Zecora is running you ragged with all the potions you two a brewing up, right?”
A silent nod was all she received before Frozen closed his eyes to take a little nap.
Rainbow sighed as she sunk into the couch. Twilight, Shinning Armor and Princess Celestia were catching up on the time they had been apart, mostly Twilight was doing the talking, some of it off by heart and some of it from the diary account that she had kept since the beginning. Rainbow Dash closed her eyes, hoping to catch up on some much needed rest since the past few days had been hectic on her.
A sudden scream woke both Frozen and Dash up as the others turned to look at Admin’s tower. The sudden alarm had thrown Dash from the couch and into the rafters of the room, she was breathing heavily as she clung to the beam, her four hooves wrapped around it in a bear hug. Looking down on her friends she scowled.
“What the hay was that?!”
Twilight looked up at her, confusion plastered on her face. “It came from Admin’s tower, but it didn’t sound like anything I know.”
No one there noticed when FrozenFire_ looked at Admin’s tower with a hint of fear on his face; neither did they notice as he tore out of the room heading directly for the Lab.
Frozen busted through the door startling Zecora into jumping with fright, the stripped Zebra turned to face him confusion on her face, and an eyebrow cocked.
“What is wrong my silent friend? Hopefully it is something I can mend.”
He picked up his notebook and quickly scrawled down into it. ‘Zecora, I need the new potion I was working on under Admin’s asking. Second shelf to the far right there should be a bright white vial with blue contents. Please grab it, and with haste!’
Zecora nodded and dashed off towards the cupboards, gripping the timber in her hooves she tore open the doors and scanned the vials inside. Second shelf to the far right, indeed there was a vial of the whitest glass with contents that would make the blue sea green with envy. Taking the vial in her mouth she rushed towards FrozenFire_ and handed it to him.
“Here is what you asked for, let me know if he needs more.”
Frozen nodded and left the room, clutching the vial to his chest. He dashed towards the tower where the scream had originated from, up the stairs out into the courtyard, past the statue of the Maker and his bride, through the long hallways of colour assorted marbles, through the tower door and up its stairs. He quickly reached the top, making sure not to trip or cause any damage to the glass vial clutched firmly to his chest. Everyone was gathered at the top of the tower, a single door stood closed, a bar blocking the person inside from getting out. Frozen looked over each of the faces gathered there, all of them had looks of concern or sadness from hearing the cries of rage and loss from inside the room.
He walked quietly up to the door, removed the bar and opened it. Frozen looked around the dark room, searching inside before looking back through the door as he entered. ‘No one else is allowed to enter until I, and I alone say so.’ He quickly scrawled onto a pad he carried. An assortment of nods told him of the response. Closing the door behind him, he entered Admin’s room.
V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Admin’s room V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V
I heard the door open, but my interests were on the blade in front of me. The iron gleamed off the moonlight streaming into the room through the only solitary open widow in the entire room. My hand reached up and rubbed my eyes, already red from crying so much. Tears still streamed down my face as I heard the footsteps get closer to me. My tongue was sore, as I had bitten it moments before in my attempts to quell my sadness.
I sniffed as the sound stopped next to me; something clinked against the glasses on my nightstand. Looking up, I saw FrozenFire_ smiling sadly at me. I smiled awkwardly up at him.
“I-It’s just not that fair ya’ know?” He nodded, and sat down on the bed.
“Twi’ asked me a question today....” He cocked an eyebrow at my statement. “She asked me if I had any memories of him, before he became Herobrine.”
My statement clearly took him off guard, as well as Twilight’s question, he knew what had happened to me, the depression, the self loathing, suicide attempts, all of it. He even stopped me a couple times from offing myself, I wasn’t really grateful at the time though.
I looked up at him, my legs still clutched to my chest. “What am I supposed to do Frozen? I betrayed my little brother, I killed him-“
A loud smack echoed throughout the room, Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Celestia backed away from the door, each looking at the other nervously.
Frozen shook his head and pointed at me, then at the blue liquid inside the glass vial. There was also a small green liquid in a plastic cup next to it. I looked back up to him confused, he pointed towards the white vial with blue liquid first. Then he made a drinking motion with his hand. Understanding flooded through me. I reached out towards the vial and took it in my grasp, bringing it to my mouth I took long gulps of the blueberry tasting drink. I gasped as I finished and placed the drink aside. I was surprised that he had gotten the potion to taste like blueberries, and then the most surprising thing happened.
The pain went away.
I blinked, and then I blinked again. I looked up to him and smiled. “Thank you Frozen.... I knew you could do it.”
He smiled and pointed towards the small green liquid in the plastic cup. I lifted it up and smelled it. I looked at Frozen and saw he had a similar cup in his hand and a similar liquid in it. He held up a hand and counted from five, I nodded.
‘Five’
I gulped and brought it closer to my mouth, the smell of lime evident in the air.
‘Four’
I looked him in the eyes and he smiled, mouthing the words ‘don’t worry.’
‘Three’
‘Two’
.......... ‘One’
Together we linked arms like the warriors of old as they were celebrating, we brought our cups closer to our lips and both drank at the same time. I tasted lime as I drank from the small cup, the lime numbing my tongue and making me have a buzzing feeling in my brain. All of my body, from the tips of my hair to the tips of my toes felt like it was receiving a small electrocution from the lime tasting drink. But that wasn’t the most surprising part, as I felt my brain remembering its functions, I well..... felt is the only word to describe it. I felt as if there was something new in my mind, like a door had been opened.
I looked at Frozen with a confused expression, which was made even more confused as I heard his voice.
“Can you hear me Admin?”
A shocked expression crossed my face and I looked at him. “D-d-did you just.....?”
“Talk?” he cocked his head to one side an amused smile on his face. “No Admin, I did not speak. This is more of a telepathic connection between us two, the drink caused it.”
I looked at the now empty cup in my hands and as I was about to open my mouth to speak again he shook his head.
“You don’t necessarily have to talk. Like I said, it’s more of a telepathic connection. You can just think what you are going to say.”
(For the sake of convenience I am now going to label Telepathic communication between Frozen and Admin in Red and Blue, Blue for Admin and Red for Frozen.)
“...... Like this?”
“Exactly, good job for a first try.”
I smiled a little as the complement went through me. But I thought it would have been a lot more different than this....
“Oh no, it’s not that difficult to get your head wrapped around Telepathic communication. I mean if the unicorns are able to do it, why not us?”
“Uh.... Frozen, that was meant to be to myself.”
“Oh....”
The two of us shared in an awkward silence. After a few minutes there was a tap at the door.
“Frozen? Is he ok now?”
He looked towards me. “You ok now?” I nodded and he went to open the door. When he did I saw all of my friends gathered around the door staring in. Celestia asked the question again and he nodded.
“Ok then, we’ll let you catch up on your rest. We’ll call you in the morning.”
I smiled as they closed the door. I actually haven’t found out what the date is yet.....
“September 30th. Almost midnight, maybe half an hour left.”
“Thanks Frozen.”
I thought to myself for a bit, and then I slowly pulled the sheets off me and went to the window. I was kind of down right now, so I might sing a song. Might lighten my mood up, who knows.
Pulling the window door open I went out onto the balcony. I smiled up at the stars shining through the night sky. Let’s see, hmm. An old classic from way back might help. How about Green Day, hmmm, and the song? Hmm, how about ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends.’? Yeah........
I could remember the music, and before I knew it the band started up around me. I was surprised, but then it was time to start singing.
“Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends”
“like my father's come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends”
“here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are”
“as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when September ends”
Now that there was the moment to catch my breath, I waited for the music to continue from the one part that was remembered fondly.
“summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends”
“ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when September ends”
“here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are”
“as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when September ends”
“Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends”
“like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast”
“Wake me up when September ends”
“Wake me up when September ends”
“Wake me up when September ends”
The music slowly died out and I sighed, that was undoubtedly my favorite song. Little did I notice the heads poking out of the window as I finished singing, nor did I notice the tears on their faces, or on my own.
“I wonder what you’re doing now, Samuel.... ”
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