Chapter 1 Vault (Steve POV)
I woke up one morning, and thought about the events from a year ago. The return of Phillip Gungars, the devastation and loss of his temporary rule, and the use of command blocks. Since I pushed Phillip into the train, we had banned the use of command blocks, and locked them up in a high security vault. I had trained a group of villagers the art of combat and defense, and their job is to guard the vault now, day and night, to make sure that no one can get in.
Tom, Papart, Bartimeus, Sylvester, and Paul, have all built their own unique houses in the village. Tom's is very sleek and modern, Papart's is villager fashioned, Bartimeus' is made of Endstone, Sylvester's is built of nether blocks, and Paul's is much like the lair where I found him at all the way back when I fought the Spider Queen with Tom.
The basic events of the day happened. I had breakfast at the cafe, lounged a bit at my home, and went to work in the mine. As I made my descent down to diamond level with my team, we started a new branch of strip mines. I got out my trusty diamond pickaxe and started to dig in a straight line, making side branches in search of the rare ore. We had excavated most of the land, and materials were beginning to become harder to find. We had to get farther and farther away to replenish our stocks. I was stopped mid-swing when another villager in my mining team stopped me.
"Sir, we've found something we want you to look at," he said. I followed him over to his line, where the other 4 villagers in the team were located. They were all bent around a patch of ore. The ore was green, and gave off a strange glow. I mined it and picked it up.
"Strange," I commented. "I've never seen it before. I'll take it up to Tom for inspection. Maybe he'll know what it is. Our shift is over, though. Time to leave the mines."
The villagers nodded in agreement, and together we left our man-made shaft. When I got out of the mine, I ran over to Tom's house and knocked on the door with urgency. The sun was beginning to set, and the air began to cool. Soon, Tom came to the door and opened it with his robotic arms. He gave me a creeper smile and welcomed me inside.
"What brings you here today, Steve?" He asked.
"My mining team found an interesting ore today," I said. "I need you to analyze it immediately. It's like nothing I've ever seen before."
I placed the green speckled ore down on the table in Tom's main hallway. He looked at it in awe, "I've never seen it before. I don't know what to tell you, Steve."
"You've never seen it in your books or anything?" I asked.
"No," Tom said. "But I'll keep it for inspection. I'll let you know if I find anything out."
I gave him a nod and left. As soon as I got into my house, there was a knock on the door. I answered quickly and saw Papart, looking nervous. "Steve, oh man."
"What is it, Papart?" I asked.
"Someone's gotten through. They're wearing something I've never seen before. We need help at the vault," he explained.
I put on my armor and got my sword in hand. I ran with my younger friend to the vault building, and rushed inside. The room containing the command blocks, which is surrounded by bedrock (thanks to the command blocks. We had to use them for something) had a hole in it, big enough for a person to fit inside. Papart went and got Sylvester, who could help burn the intruder. We charged inside, and saw a figure in strange, blocky white armor unlike anything I'd ever seen. He looked at us and quickly typed something into the block. He put a pressure plate on the block. He jumped on the pressure plate, and I felt my insides ball up. Sylvester disappeared next to me, and soon all I saw was black.
