A/N Hey everyone, thanks for the feedback from last chapter. Here's the second one, hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ or Minecraft.

Chapter 2:

"Dad are you alright?" Trunks asked his father as the two of them jumped out of the water and onto the sand blocks of the beach. It had stopped raining right before the sun started coming up, and the sky was bright now with the sun on its way to the top of the virtual sky. The two of them had their stone swords drawn since Vegeta was out of arrows. The young boy was looking above his father's head to where one heart was showing.

"I'm fine," the Prince growled at his son, though his stomach growled loudly and proved different to what he said. "How do I get my health back in this game?"

"You have to fill up your hunger bar," Trunks explained. Before his father could ask how, the boy continued, "We have to kill some animals and eat them."

Vegeta liked the sound of that and he grinned at his son, but the boy didn't look happy. Trunks's eyes were wide and the boy sprinted the short distance between him and his father. The Prince wondered for a second what the boy was doing, and then he heard the hissing sound. The man thought all the monsters went away once it became day, so hearing one of those exploding things behind him caught him off guard. He took a step away, but he was down to one bar of hunger and didn't move very fast. Out of all his deaths, this would easily be the stupidest.

"Dad!" Trunks charged past his dad and swiped the creature before it exploded, knocking it back away from his dad where it exploded.

Vegeta turned around and saw his son panting with four hearts left. Trunks was the closest one to the explosion, and he managed to get it far enough from his dad to save him. Vegeta didn't know whether to thank his son or hit him for saving him. It was embarrassing, but then again it was a video game, it wasn't real. Except my mind getting lost in here would be pretty bad. "Let's go get some food," Vegeta said to his son who finally calmed down from the explosion.

That hurt, Trunks thought as he could still feel the burns on his skin. He could handle a lot more pain than that though and was glad his mom had made this device for humans, not Saiyans. The Z warriors could all handle a lot more pain than what this game was throwing at them. The boy followed after his father and was frowning that his dad didn't seem to care that he just saved him.

"Good job son," Vegeta said without turning back to the boy walking behind him. "Explain more of this game. We don't want to get caught off guard again."

The boy smiled as he knew that was as close to thanks as his father was going to give. He started going on about the different types of monsters he'd encountered since downloading the game: their strengths, weaknesses, whether or not they burned up in sunlight. "…The spiders don't burn up, but they won't attack you when the sun is up. If you kill them- Look!" The nine year old stopped walking and pointed off to the side of the field they were walking in.

"Chickens," Vegeta said with a little bit of drool coming down the left corner of his mouth. His hunger was now at half a drumstick and he started walking as fast as he could towards the little bird. "What happens if my hunger reaches zero?" the man asked as the last half-drumstick started vibrating to show it was about to vanish like the rest.

"You can't let that happen," Trunks warned. "You'll starve to death, or so close that the slightest touch will kill you." The lavender haired boy still had half his hunger left so he wasn't too worried, but he knew his dad must be close now and he ran in front, striking the chicken and dropping its meat on the ground. "Quickly, eat the meat before…"

Vegeta switched from his sword to his fist and he punched his son mid-sentence. "I can hunt my own food child," he growled and left the raw chicken meat and feather on the ground where Trunks killed it. The boy rubbed his head and wished his dad wasn't so stubborn.

"Sorry," the boy muttered under his breath and picked up the fruits of his labor. He had an idea and pulled back out his wooden pickaxe, knowing he could at least help his dad in some way.

Vegeta meanwhile, dropped down to an empty hunger bar and his stomach roared. "I know," he told it angrily and looked back up to the chicken's friends who were flapping around him. He redrew his sword and took a step, but his one heart dropped down to half a heart left. He paused and stared at his health. It was so low and his hunger bar was vibrating rapidly. I better not die here, he walked towards the closest chicken while holding his breath.

The man killed it and looked at his inventory bar, a chicken breast appearing in his seventh slot. He had a sword, bow, and monster droppings in his other six slots. Now he had chicken though and he pulled it up so that the chicken was in his hand. He devoured it in a few seconds and then looked over at his hunger bar. "It only went up one!" he shouted and looked back across the field to see a two block by two block wide hole in the dirt.

Vegeta carefully walked over to the hole, not wanting to fall in and receive fall damage like his son said was a possible way for him to die at his current health. He looked down and saw a small spiral staircase down a few blocks to a stone floor where his son was putting a raw chicken into what looked like a furnace. "If you cook the meat, it gives back more health," Trunks said without looking up at his dad whose footsteps he heard approaching. If his dad didn't want his help finding food, he could at least help cook it which his father never seemed to care about back home. "Can you get us some more chickens to cook?" he asked while eating the cooked one in his hands. "I'm still not at full either, but I have to find some coal to help us cook. I'm wasting wood right now on the meat."

"Sounds good," his father agreed and turned around. Working with his son didn't seem like such a bad idea and he drew his sword, walking towards the cluster of cows that appeared on the field near the hole and were feeding on some tall grass around him. A few minutes later he had six pieces of uncooked beef in his inventory and his final slot was taken up by pieces of leather.

The two Briefs boys cooked their food and ate until their hunger was quenched. They still had another two pieces of cooked beef left over afterwards, but Trunks used up the last of their wood cooking it all too. "Your health is going back up," Trunks told his dad who was already watching it slowly raise on the bottom left of his vision.

"Yes," Vegeta said and clenched his right fist, feeling his strength coming back to him. "What it the purpose to this game?" The father asked his boy as his health finally returned to full.

"Oh! You have to… well it's kind of like," the boy paused and scratched his virtual head. Him and his father both looked like their normal selves which Trunks appreciated as he wouldn't have liked having square body parts and such. He stopped scratching his head and shrugged his shoulders, "There isn't really an ending to Minecraft. You build, mine, and explore as much as you want. It's pretty free no matter what path you choose."

"And this world, how large is it?" Vegeta asked his son.

Trunks spread his arms wide and said, "A lot, lot bigger than the Earth. It will just keep generating more landmass and new areas to explore. Oceans can last for miles before you reach a seemingly endless continent with deserts, jungles, swamps-"

"Alright!" Vegeta was getting annoyed by the long rant and he shut up his child. "So what do we do until the woman gets around to getting us out of here?"

Trunks' eyes lit up as he realized he was getting to play video games with his dad and spend a lot of time with him in something other than training. The boy knew how to get this to happen and he started with a small nod, "We should probably just dig a hole and sit in there for a few hours. That would be the safest option..."

"Good idea let's do it," Vegeta said, not going to allow his son to trick him here.

"Wait! I don't want to," the boy said quickly. Trunks started sweating at the look his father was giving him and he sighed. "There was this thing I wanted to do ever since seeing this game, before I even downloaded it on my computer." His father looked at him expectantly and Trunks continued, "This world has it's own version of Hell. I was going to ask Goten to help me get there, but now that I think about it, we probably still would have failed."

"Why's that?" Vegeta asked, intrigued by the aspect of Hell in a video game like this.

Trunks looked straight down at the stone floor of the little hole they were in. All that was in their hole was a crafting table and a single furnace. "First off, we need to make a portal, but the portal is made of obsidian which we can't mine yet." He knew his father was going to ask why again so he just continued, "Before we can mine the obsidian, we need diamond pickaxes, so we need to find three blocks of diamond ore, the rarest of all ores. However, we can't even mine diamond without iron pickaxes, which we'd need to make a few stone ones and dig pretty far down to find. Once we found the iron, we'd still have to dig almost all the way to bedrock, this world's bottom and un-mineable floor. Down there is the only place to find diamond, but the only time I ever got close, I fell into one of the lava pits that appear down at the low levels like that."

"Doesn't sound too hard," Vegeta said with a growing smirk.

Trunks discouraged himself through this whole conversation and he kept going despite his father seeming to think it wasn't so hard. "I still haven't told you the hard part," the boy continued. "The entire time, we'll be digging around looking for rare ore and searching for lava pits. We need to make buckets to fill with water so that we can pour the water on top of the lava and create obsidian. When we then take the time to dig the obsidian, it falls into the lava still in the pit on the block level below it. We have to dig around the entire thing to protect ourselves from lava. And the hardest thing about all this, is that all those monsters we had to fight last night," his father's smirk slowly faded as his son finished his sentence, "and more, are going to be appearing in the caves below us right now. The only difference is that we can't run away very well in the cramped conditions of the caves, and we can't explore any further without fighting our way through it."

The lavender haired kid shook his head and looked up through the roof in their hole. "The sun is going to be going down soon, we should go grab some wood to make some pickaxes, then we'll make this hole larger and create some torches. We'll have to cook the wood to make charcoal, then put it over a stick for torches and the light will keep monsters from spawning. Then we should just stay in here..."

Vegeta wasn't really mad at his son earlier for suggesting it, because he knew the boy was trying to convince him to do the more exciting thing. This time though, he saw Trunks was serious and he punched the boy in the stomach, knocking Trunks back and taking a heart off of him. "What was that for?!"

"For talking like a weakling," Vegeta responded.

"One death and we're done Dad! This is hardcore mode, we don't come back, our minds are going to get lost in here..." Trunks stopped as his dad raised a fist again and clenched it.

"Only if we lose," Vegeta said calmly. "If you're strong, you won't get killed. Now that this is real, your warrior instincts should kick in. We are the strongest things in this world, not those Endermen, not the skeletons, and not those little green guys-"

"Creepers," Trunks corrected his father who continued as if he wasn't interrupted.

"We won't lose to Kakarott and his sons," Vegeta said and grinned.

Trunks smiled at the aspect of showing up Gohan and Goten. "What about Krillin?"

"Who?" his father asked and cracked a smile. Trunks started cracking up and Vegeta pointed up, "If we need wood to travel further down, then let's get it before it gets dark. We'll spend the night going down and we'll find this world's Hell."

"It's called the Nether," Trunks said as they started climbing back up to the surface where the sun was a minute away from setting. "And it's a land of fire and death." The way the boy worded it only made them both want to go visit it more and they each grinned.

"Let's get to work," Vegeta said and his son nodded, both of them running off for the trees closest to them.


Gohan looked off the top of the mountain he was on top of. The clouds just passed beneath him and right through the middle of the mountain, so now he had a clear view of the valley below. "Okay, so that's where I came from," he saw the beach where their group spawned originally and looked around the area. "It looks like no one's there anymore. Hmm," he was thinking of going back once he found where he came from, but if no one was on the beach, there was no point in going there.

"Goten went straight out over the water, but he must've cut to the sides at some point. Gohan looked left and right of the shore they started on and it looked like it was a bay, with land on either side and near their spawn, but straight out led to a large open ocean. "Right or left?"

The older Son child looked left and saw the small hill leading into a forest of Oak Trees that his father and Krillin went over during the previous night. "Hopefully Goten went that way, maybe he'll run into dad." Suddenly Gohan noticed that a shadow had passed over him, yet he was above the clouds. He looked up and didn't see the sun anywhere, so he turned his head to the west and saw the sun about to hit the horizon line.

"Oh no," the teenager said and looked around the top of the mountain. Monsters are going to be everywhere in a few minutes. I need some shelter. He looked at the bottom bar on his vision and he had three different types of meat in the first three categories, followed by leather that dropped when he killed the cows, and feathers from the chickens he killed. Next was some gunpowder that dropped from the exploding guys, and a bone from a skeleton that burned up in front of him in the morning.

It was the eighth box that Gohan switched to though, and the demi-Saiyan smiled at his earlier planning. The boy held up a dirt block that had thirty nine others in its stack and he started putting them down five blocks wide by four long. It wasn't a very large house, but after twenty seconds or so, he had a good box around him that was two blocks high to prevent the monsters from jumping inside. I wish I had some light, he thought as it was really starting to get dark and he could barely see the dirt walls around him.

That's when the noises began.

It started out with a few groans and grunts at first, nothing big. Then the rattling began and Gohan wondered if the skeletons could shoot over the wall and arc their arrows at him. That would be bad, so he started digging one block down on the inside of his little block fort. He was going to block up the ceiling and make it so nothing could get inside at all.

HissHissGohan stopped digging for a second as that spider sounded very close. The others were all right outside his walls, but for some reason the spider sounded even louder. He continued to dig and made his entire floor one block down. HISS The spider really sounded close now and Gohan was not liking this at all, he put one block of dirt against the top left corner of his wall. He was making it impossible for himself to jump up since the ceiling would only be one block above his head, but it was worth it.

The teenager moved to place the second block of dirt, when he saw it. His eyes went wide and he dropped his jaw at the sight of the spider on the opposite wall as the first dirt block he put down It was sitting there on all eight legs, staring straight at him with eight red eyes. "Uhh, hello there-"

HISS!The spider leapt off the wall and inside the house, biting Gohan and making the boy scream in fear. The pain he could handle, but this spider scared him with its sudden jump and he started punching wildly. He knocked it back, and then it jumped forward and hit him again. He jumped the second time and hit it again, but even with the extra strength, it didn't knock the spider any further back since the box was so small. He got hit again and was down to five hearts. "Stop it!" he yelled and charged at the spider before it leapt at him the next time. He kept swinging his arm over and over again and pushed the spider up against the back wall, hitting it until it died. It climbed the wall, the boy was panting hard and he ate a piece of pig meat to make his hunger go back to full, which in turn started raising his health slowly.

"Well, at least that's over," the boy said and wiped some sweat from his brow. Hiss Gohan looked at the dirt block in his hand that he just beat a spider to death with, and he put it on the ceiling next to the first piece, then he filled up the rest of the ceiling and finally released the deep breath he had held since hearing a second spider. It wasn't long before he heard it crawling around on the roof above him, hissing and trying to find a way in to get him. Wait until tomorrow, then find everyone else. I just hope they all survive the night.


A/N Thanks for reading! The Z fighters have started to get settled inside of Minecraft, building and coming up with objectives as the second night begins. Trunks and Vegeta aim for building a Nether portal, while the inexperienced players roam the world and try not to get themselves killed. Goten's still missing and who knows where Goku and Krillin have gone? Find out next time, on Dragon Minecraft!