Prologue

Date: Dec. 31st. 9min. till midnight.

9.3 million miles from Earth

An extremely large bubble of cool gas forces its way to the surface of the Sun. The immensity of the bubble causes a giant solar flare to start to form.

Back on Earth…

A young man, tired of the New Year's Eve festivities, decides to turn on his favorite video game, Minecraft, to check if his base is being raided by PVPers.

8min. till midnight

The bubble reaches the surface.

The flare is unleashed.

The young man logs on.

Incidentally, three of his friends are on at the same time. In fact, one of his friends was defending the young man's base from a couple of PVPers.

7min. till midnight

"Taylor! What the heck is happening!?" A moment ago the young man's friend, Taylor, ran thru the iron door, closed it, and blocked it with obsidian. "Well first, grab all your stuff and blow up the rest. I just angered the biggest faction on the server by accident!" Taylor rambled breathlessly.

5min. till midnight

"Why did you lead them to our base?" the young man questioned. "Okay, it was a mistake…" "Two big ones," interrupted the young man. "…but we can always find a new base, right Matt?" Taylor quizzed. Matt sighed through the Skype call and pinched the bridge of his nose. Taylor had done this to the last three servers; one on a vanilla server, one on a tekkit server, and now the current one on a voltz server. "You better hope that, one, they don't track you and, two, we find an abandoned mineshaft." Matt said with a hint of venom.

3 min. till midnight

The flare passes Venus.

Its sunset in Stockholm, Sweden

"Well, I guess we found one." Taylor said cheerily. Outside the game, Matt's sister tries to get him off Minecraft to watch the ball drop. A small verbal battle ensues.

1 min. till midnight

The skies over Stockholm brighten because of the rapidly approaching solar flare. Another young man looks out the top story windows at Mojang HQ. He is wearing a tattered blue shirt and faded jeans. Also, he has glowing white eyes. He smirks as the flare approaches and glances back at a sparking computer. "Looks like I will be receiving company." At that he turned around and faded away in a flurry of purple squares.

Back in Minecraft…

The two friends find a chest with a strange book at the bottom of Ravine. A sign by the chest saying,

"You'll need this"

-H

The same moment Matt puts the book in his inventory, his sister grabs the top of his laptop and the flare reaches through the Earth's magnetic field and hits Stockholm at full force. The resulting radiation hits the main Mojang servers and sends an incredible shockwave to every copy of Minecraft in the world. In an instant, everyone interacting with the game Minecraft falls off the face of the planet.