Chapter 2: So Many Blocks

Maurice

There was a dull, flat thud as Maurice opened his eyes to a grassy field and an oddly shaped cow in his face.

The cow had a square flat face with smaller, rectangular ears. The body was a large rectangle with smaller rectangular legs and tail.

Where am-… He once again didn't get to finish, the truth hit him like a ton of bricks (or in his case, blocks). He was on a seed in Minecraft!

He panicked and got up, sore from the contortion of his slightly overweight body.

He looked for his friends and saw them, just a little scattered around, the two were still passed out. Maurice would have to wake them and tell them the news…

Steve and… Steve? What?

"Hello?" Steve heard a voice talking to him, "Are you alright?..." it belonged to a man, Steve had to answer, but first, he had to open his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes to see at least shapes, they popped open, the shapes were only blocks! "W-Where am I?" asked Steve, both scared and awestruck; he knew where he was, but he wanted to hear it for himself.

"You're on my seed. Oh, where are my manners, the name's Steve." The man said. The other Steve stood there. How… wait, so his name is Steve, too! Oh no, how are we going to go about asking for Steve without one of us getting confused!

The human Steve stuck out his hand, trying to be as polite and casual as his composure would allow.

"My name is Steve, too. Umm, my sister might have to make up nicknames for us…"

"Oh," said the other Steve. "in that case, my real name is Stephan, but I took the liberty to calling myself 'Steve'." He paused for a monument. "Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever really met another human. I've seen many upon many abandon villages, but never any person." Stifling a small light chuckle to himself, he added, "Unless you count Zombies, Skeletons, Endermen, and Creepers."

Steve (Human) was stunned; he was in the presence of the actual Steve in the flesh! Well, programming if you want to be technical.

Steve was only stunned for a few seconds, for he heard a sound that he knew all too well.

"Don't worry," Stephan started. "it's just a spider, for some reason, they're only hostile at night." Steve looked toward the large black creature. Way bigger than the ones back home. Steve thought, speaking of home, they need to make a house to stay safe from the mobs at night.

"Hey Stephan, do you think you could help me and my sister build a house, we aren't exactly from-" Steve stopped himself; he didn't think he should tell him they weren't from this… dimension. "-from here." Steve finished.

"Well, then, your bed must've been destroyed and or the place you lived nuked. I'll help you out, what kind of house would you like?" Stephan asked. You know, I thought from the game he was just a cold hearted survivor, but he's actually pretty nice. Steve thought he could stay in Minecraft for a few days without it killing him. Speaking of which, Steve's sister had started stirring from her apparent dead sleep. "Well, why don't we ask her?"

Will and Maurice

"Will, WAKE UP!" Maurice screamed at his friend, he'd already woken up Lauren and explained where they were and the situation they were in. Lauren was already gathering dirt for a cheap house and since will passed out next to a forest, he was going to wake him up and get some wood.

Will woke with a start. He looked around and his mind and body nearly gave way from the force of the realization.

"Maurice?" he mumbled shakily. Maurice cut him off before he could pass out from trying to figure it out on his own. "… Yes, we are in Minecraft, we need to collect wood. We need to make tools, torches, three beds, and a door. Lauren is getting dirt to make a house… I wonder if we have maps." Maurice said the last part aloud to nobody in particular. They could chart their location if they did.

How do we open our inventory? He thought. Hell, maybe I just have to think about it…

"Hey, Will. Can you go get some wood? I'll stay back and figure out how to work our options, like the inventory and all that, if that's okay with you." Said the larger male. Much to his surprise, Will nodded his head, and turned to leave when Maurice grabbed his shoulder. "Just figured out how to open the inventory, just think about it with your hand in a pocket." He said, seemingly staring off into space. "Oh, and another thing, use your map and report to us if you find anything like villages and things like that, and have it filled out on your map."

"Okay." Will replied before turning.

Lauren

Lauren looked around, she'd been digging up dirt for at least a couple hours Minecraft time. Damn, I think I'm lost. She thought she would see Maurice by now. She heard footsteps behind her. Finally you come!

"Hey, What took yo-" Her heart skipped a couple of beats as she was it wasn't Maurice, I fact, it wasn't even human!

"Creeper!" she shouted out loud to the air before she took off into the woods, dodging everything in her path. It's still behind me! Her mind raced on how to escape.

She saw a door and torches and immediately headed towards it. It didn't take long for her to get in and close the door.

The inside was already lit and there was a table and some kind of chair, windows and a fireplace.

It took a while for her to notice a sign next to the fireplace that said. "I wonder what's behind the fireplace." She had a gut feeling that she should press something, she hit the fire in the fireplace and it went out, revealing a button. She pressed it, and when she did, a piston hit the block from the right to the left and a chest appeared.

Lauren stood there almost completely dumbfounded. I found a hidden chest! She squealed inside of her head.

The outside seemed to be getting darker and darker.

She opened the chest and there was a full set of leather armor. She stuck it in her inventory (which she had no idea how she did in the first place).

There was a secret passage that had been revealed. She didn't know how she didn't see it first, but she had decided to go down and found there was a ladder.

Must be a ladder to the top of the roof. She thought. Wow, stating the obvious while in a life or death situation, are you that nervous?

She finished going up to the roof and noticed pressure plates. TNT traps. She broke the one closest to the corner and stepped there. From there she continued to disarm the traps.

Once she finished, she looked out to the edge of the railing of which was protecting the young lady. What she saw though, shocked her, many upon many Zombies, Skeletons, Spiders, Creepers and Endermen, with not a single human in sight. Well, looks like I'm stuck here. She decided she'd use the wool she got from the sheep and wood from the trees she'd cut down to make a crafting table and a bed. But how? She said with a hand in her mind in a building state. At that moment, there was a light and a screen appeared.

"There we go." She said smiling.

Steve's Attempt

"Hey, thanks for letting us stay here until tomorrow, when we can build our own house. By the way, can we make it a little close to your house?" asked Steve, a little unsure about his own question. "No problem, but why so close?" This made Steve's heart sink, he would have to tell him sometime, but not now…

"Well, if we were nuked like you said, then we won't want to go back there, and well, figured you could use the company." Steve stated, he could have sworn he saw a glint of happiness from this response.

They both turned and looked at Steve's sister, Dee. "Is she going to be alright?" asked Stephan. "I'm sure she will…" With one last look at his sister, who was looking out of one of the windows, all he could do was think. I hope so…