Chapter 1
What was behind the tv screen
The day started out well enough despite getting trapped in a tv screen later in the day. I'll get to that later though.
"MOM!" I bellowed up the stairs.
Soon I got the reply I wanted, "I'll be ready in a second."
"I'm going to be late! I was late last time!" I replied. A few minutes later I was in the car, laptop case in the backseat and raring to go.
When we arrived we were a few minutes ahead of schedule. "Sorry, mom. I thought I was going to be late." I walked up to the door, just outside of the door I heard someone say. "No promises." Unable to wait any longer, I knocked on the door. Worst mistake of the day. Almost as bad as agreeing to go into the screen. The next thing that happened really hurt, and was funny. I heard two voices in unison scream, "Tanner!" Then the door flung open and I was dragged out chuckle I set down my laptop next Emmy's. Emmy is a girl who can be quite easygoing and pretty at the sametime. A nice combo. Today, Emmy had her shoulder-length brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. As usual she wore her teal glasses. Samus, however is pretty, but is rather impulsive when it comes to burnin up in lava in Minecraft. And she tends to punch the nearest person in the game. Usually me.
Before they could say anything, I ran across to the other side of the room and screamed, "You will never catch the great and powerful TANNER SMITH!" Sam rolled her eyes, and Emmy tried not to burst out laughing. Unable to contain my excitement I started out by saying, "So, are you guys ready to play some Minecraft?" Sam looked really eager to start to. "Yep," Sam said, "Just let me start up my computer." As we booted up our computers up, Sam's loaded faster. Emmy and I looked at the screen and laughed. "W-what?" Sam inquired. Emmy rolled her eyes and grinned. "Keep calm and love budder?" I couldn't help but chuckle. "That's your wallpaper?" She sat up straighter and tried to put dignity in her words, "Yeah. What's the problem with loving budder and detesting squids? I'm a member of the Sky Army after all."
Emmy snorted while, calm I could be and riled up about playing minecraft I was I couldn't resist. I raised my fist dramatically. And shouted, "BUDDER!" Sam wasn't amused. Instead she said, "You're so random. C'mon let's set up the LAN world." After a few minutes she typed in the seed and set up the world. We all joined in. The seed was…. Startling?... No,... Interesting is a better word. We started out in a plains biome. There were the necessary supplies within reach. There were pigs, chicken and sheep frolicking in the virtual grass. I guess beautiful is a better word. There was only one thing on my criteria though, pumpkins. i wandered around a few blocks and saw a pumpkin! Then just beyond that one, more. "Yeah!" Soon we strategized about what we wanted to build and do. We needed the essentials, wood, food, weapons, coal, stone, iron and for Sam we needed budder.
We all headed for the trees. We chopped them down and I became more agitated about night the longer we stood there without weapons. Before I could act on that I noticed Sam's character wasn't moving. Looking up I saw her focused on her screen. "Everything alright, Sam?" I asked. "I'm not sure. My screen keeps flickering," was the only response. "Doesn't it do that all the time?" Emmy asked.
"Yeah, but it never flickers purple." Sam said. "Purple?" Emmy said. "That's not normal."
We all stared at the screen trying to find the purple flicker. Nothing. "This is ridiculous. It's probably just your computer being weird." I said with a sigh. Although as I said that the screen flickered. Not the normal flicker, but purple!
Suddenly I noticed something on my screen. Something was using my chat log! I hit the backspace button but to delete it but to no avail! I barely heard Sam and Emmy talking. I let out a little gasp. Immediately they turned to me. Very, very slowly and hoping the words didn't disappear, I turned toward the pair. "You guys might want to see this." Hesitantly I showed them my screen, afraid that the words had faded. They didn't. "Come adventurers." Sam read aloud. Eerie as it sounded it was a tiny bit curious. Why here? Why now?We've been in the same location, on the same world before.
Then came the whooshing sound. It was terrible. Imagine a thousand voices whispering and then magnify it by ten. Then I recognized, nether portal. We looked at Sam's screen and saw a purple, hazy mix?
Sam started for the portal. Reacting instinctively, I darted forward and pulled Sam back. "What are you thinking? We don't know what that thing is!" I practically bellowed. "And we never will if yo don't let go of me. Sam's remark burned me, partly because she was right and partly because I too wanted to explore this occurrence. She shook my hand off her shoulder and turned to the screen. "It appears to be a nether portal, but to where, I'm not sure." Emmy said.
Then Sam said it. The words I knew she would say. Well, at least in a roundabout fashion. "Fancy a look?"
Emmy stepped forward. Quickly I stepped back and tried to beg Emmy not to go. "Are you two lost your minds?" I demanded. "We don't know where that, that thing, leads to! What if we get hurt?"
I looked at Emmy first hoping she would see the danger. She knew it but didn't completely believe what I thought. Sam showed her fear and I saw how much she actually thought we could die. It startled me. I was so focused I never even heard her mouth move.
Being the only one with their sense, I tried to force the picture into Sam's light blue eyes. But now, now there was the will, the want, the need to explore this new place. I maintained my eye-contact trying to will her not to go. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Emmy move next to Sam. "I'm going to. It's an adventure into the unknown. How thrilling is that?" She said. I looked at both of them afraid. And I knew I lost then, I could follow both of them, I couldn't however seem to leave Sam's gaze. Then I sighed and shook my head. "When we die, don't come crying to me!"
Sam looked at me and grinned as she tugged me toward the screen.
"On the count of three," Emmy said barely above a whisper. "One!"
"Two!" I added taking in a gulp of air.
"Three!" Sam cried.
As one we leaned toward the portal.
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The portal was… weird. It tossed me and tumbled me until I forgot which way I was. Then finally I saw a green plant about 50 meters down, or at least what I thought was down. Then I noted my speed. I was going to die at this speed. No matter how much I tried, nothing worked. I frowned. And gulped. And crashed into the ground at high speed. I barely let out a groan before blacking out.
A/N Hello peeps! This is Red! I spoke with music's Passion and they allowed me to write and post Tanners point of view in the story, Inverse Realities. Alright if you only read this, then check out my friends stories! Merry Christmas peeps!