A/N:
HPE24: Thank you so much for your supports! I loved reading the reviews left by you guys. Heh, I'm going to get on with the story now.
Eta7400: No you don't.
HPE24: You just came in.
Eta7400: That's 'cause we were arguing about your habit of making a new document.
HPE24: Don't want to talk about it. Subject closed. Anyway, Mojang owns the awesome game.
Eta7400: You've said it on the previous chapter as well. And I was just pointing out why I just came in.
HPE24: So? I can say it every chapter. There's no law against it.
Eta7400: When did I say you can't?
HPE24: Whatever. Notch and Jeb and his awesome team created the game.
Eta7400: Yah, yah. Whatever. Why don't we just get on with it?
HPE24: I was going to.
X
The Creeper glared at the Zombie, who was drumming his fingers on the smooth desk.
"Will you stop that?" he hissed, losing his patience.
"Fine. I was really bored," said the Zombie. "What are we going to do now?"
"Our task is straightforward: Ambush the players and end them."
"Yeah, it sounds so easy when you say it," the Skeleton snorted. "The players may be aware of the SCU now, so we have to find a different way of approach."
"There is a cow out there," said the Spider. "Maybe we can contact him."
After a few minutes later, they were staring at the screen with all the information about the cow and his position.
"What do you see, Co: H-75?" the Spider asked.
"MOOOOOOOOO," Co: H-75 replied.
"What the shit is he talking about?" asked the Zombie.
"I was afraid this would happen," the Creeper sighed. "Translator!" he barked at the shadow.
A slime flopped out from the background, and rested right before the screen.
"Say it again," ordered the Creeper.
"MOOOOOOOOO," the cow repeated.
"Players. Village. Trading," said the slime.
"It seems that villagers are trading players," said the Zombie seriously.
"No, you idiot!" the Spider said, exasperated. "The players are trading with villagers!"
"Ooh," said the Zombie. "Figures."
"Let's get a move on then," said the Silverfish. "Send some armies and end them for good."
"Yes yes, but first, we should send a scout," said the Creeper.
"Piece of cake: you can use some of mine."
"Settled then," said the Skeleton. "Use the puny bug's servant-"
"HEY!"
"Wait," the Creeper growled. "My scout should go out. They look less suspicious than the silverfishes."
"Hey, I want to get a chance!" the Silverfish squeaked, barging out of his seat. "You have that self-explosion thing, and all I have are small teeth to bite with."
"Yeah, how cute are they?" the Zombie sneered.
The Silverfish ignored him. "And we are way smaller than you tall guys. We can easily hide in tall grass."
"Doesn't matter, because whenever the scouts are discovered, the creepers can kill the players," the Creeper snorted. "Kamikaze is always good."
"NO. I want to have some glory!" the Silverfish screamed, slamming his tiny claws on the desk.
"Well you know what? I want to do some good too to please the boss!" the Creeper yelled, stomping the desk with his foot too.
"Oh no," the Spider mumbled. "My legs just came off."
"WHAT?" everybody gasped.
The Spider laughed. "No, I was messing with you guys. My legs are still fine." The monsters resumed their seats, grumbling.
"So, as I was saying," said the Silverfish, glaring at the Creeper with his tiny black eyes. "I suggest using my species for this task, as they are easily concealed by natural blocks."
"Creepers are more common in grasslands, bug," the Creeper snarled. "Why don't you go back to your little stronghold?"
The Silverfish growled. "There is lesser chance of players going into the stronghold! And for you, Creeper, why bother to stick your face out to explode yourself?"
"You've gone too far!" the Creeper yelled, his eyes burning with rage. "I would have you killed if it wasn't for our alliance. Be thankful for that!"
"Oh wow," the Spider muttered. "Why does my leg have to be so easily detached?"
"We all know that's a lie," said the Skeleton.
The Spider gasped. "How did you know?"
"It's obvious," said the Skeleton, trying to roll his eyes with almost-empty sockets. He turned to his comrades. "Guys, why don't we make this even by sending BOTH scouts?"
"Yeah, that's fair," said the Zombie.
"Humph," the two monsters in arguing grunted.
"You're very smart, Skeleton," said the Spider admiringly.
The Skeleton chuckled. "What can I say? I have a genius mind."
A scratchy sound came under the desk. It was high pitched, and very irritating.
"What's that?" asked the Silverfish.
Everybody stopped talking, and stared at the place where the sound was emanating from, which was where the Skeleton was sitting.
"What, are, you, doing?" asked the Creeper, forcefully stifling his rage.
"Oh, I'm just playing my bow," said the Skeleton mildly, lifting his bow higher. He brought out an arrow, and started rubbing on the bowstring, literally playing the bow. It produced a squeaky and very unpleasant sound.
"You call that music?" the Silverfish asked incredulously.
"Yup."
"Crazy," the Zombie muttered.
X
"Why did they have to send us together?" a creeper grumbled.
"I don't want to work with you either, but our bosses say so," said a silverfish.
The two monsters were observing the NPC village behind a hill of dirt very close to the village, keeping their eyes on the players. They seemed to be trading with villagers, offering them some items like emerald and stolen wheat.
"Despicable creatures, they are," the silverfish muttered.
"Sure," the creeper agreed. "Trading unfairly; another evidence of their evilness."
"But let us wait more and report what they REALLY are doing." And they continued to observe their targets, hidden by the dirt hill.
At the Players' Side...
"Don't you think it's a bit cruel?" asked Will, as Jim handed a piece of wheat to a villager, which was acquired from a farmer's field.
"They don't even care," snorted Jim, pocketing the cash he earned. At once, the villager began to froth, producing purple bubbles.
"Sick," Luke muttered, completely disgusted.
"Neat," Jim giggled, clearly amused.
"Oh yeah, got myself some enchanted tools!" yelled Nathan, as he drew out an enchanted iron sword with Sharpness IV, leaving the priest to froth.
While the priest was frothing, Luke's breakfast made reappearance and everyone hit the ground.
"Now that we got some good items," said Jim enthusiastically. "Time to do the Activity of Life!"
"What's that?" asked Will suspiciously.
"In other words, TIME TO BURN, BABY!" yelled Jim, as he pulled out a flint and steel.
"No!" yelled Luke. "All lives are precious, and those folks just did a huge favor to us! We can't repay their kindness by burning their community!"
"Who cares?" asked Nathan. "They have the IQ of a pig."
Jim completely ignored Luke's protest and began to scratch the flint away, igniting wooden structures while singing.
"Hi my name is Geoff and I'm a glitchy silverfish, not much else left to say," sang Jim, as a house went up in flames.
"What the hell, Jim?" asked Nathan. "Why sing Geoff's Theme?"
"Oh why don't you, spend some time with me. That would really make my day." he continued as a villager was consumed to fuel the flames. He sent some sparks to the library, setting the innocent wad of knowledge on a brilliant orange flame.
"You're not the silverfish!" said Luke exasperatedly. "And you're certainly not a glitchy pyro psychopath."
Jim ignored him again, and kept singing. "I'll glitch across the land, I'll glitch across the sky, I'll keep on glitching 'till the day I die.
"Oh hi my name is Geoff and I'm a glitchy silverfish, and I'm one -"
"Stop!" yelled Nathan. "You're destroying a great source of food" he moaned, pointing at a burning wheat field.
"Does it matter?" asked Will.
"Yeah. I mean, food heal us!"
"So? How about Potion of Healing?"
"..."
X
"What is he doing?" the creeper hissed, as he saw Jim dance across the village, burning everything.
"Obviously, he's setting things on fire," said the silverfish.
"So does that mean he's the Arsonist?" the creeper asked disbelievingly.
"Yes, it seems so."
"We must go back," the creeper said frantically. "We must tell them-"
"Now everything's on fire," Jim bellowed, as he set the hill on fire. "But everything's okay, 'cause for Geoff, it's just another day. Oh hi my name is Geoff and I'm a glitchy silverfish. And I wouldn't have it any other way." He danced back to the village, flint and steel clutched in his hand, leaving the dirt hill blazing with fire.
X
"That would be two pieces of minerals, Spider," said the Creeper. The monsters were playing Gem Domination, which was something like a card game.
"Shit," said the Spider, and he slammed down two lapis lazuli on the desk, where mounds of Tribute Minerals were stocked. The Spider glared at the Creeper, resenting him for making him give away two lapis pieces by drawing the ultimate card: Redstone Dust.
"I think I got it," said the Silverfish, staring at his deck of gems under the table to avoid sneaking from other teammates. He slammed a piece of gold ingot and a piece of diamond in front of him. "Gold and diamond! When Opposites Meet! Take that, Creeper!"
The Creeper growled. "Why did you have to have a diamond?" he whined, as he reluctantly slapped down one of his most precious game piece in deck: a piece of lapis lazuli. The Silverfish smiled with glee, placing his shown cards to the Deposit Deck.
The Skeleton observed his choice under his side of the desk. He had a war of conflict going on in his brain, where one side urged him to sacrifice his Redstone, while the other begged him to save it, and send another material instead.
"Come on, Skeleton, we're waiting," said the Zombie.
"Fine," snapped the Skeleton, as he gave in the Redstone. Somewhere from his brain, a crying sound was to be heard.
The Silverfish stared at the piece of Redstone disbelievingly. "THIS CAN'T BE!" he howled. "WHY DOUBLE DISPOSE? WHY?"
"Get over with it, buggy," said the Zombie, chewing on a leg of some unfortunate Villager.
Still half-sobbing and half-yelling, the Silverfish gave in two diamonds. "THAT WAS THE ONLY KIND AVAILABLE!" he wailed, as he saw his precious minerals being stocked up on the Tribute Deck.
"Now it's my turn," cackled the Spider. "Let's-"
"WAIT!" the Creeper yelled. "Something's coming!" All the monsters stared at the screen, which began to turn on. Co: H-75 came in, mooing wildly.
"Translator!" the Creeper barked. "What is he saying?"
The slime listened to the cow intently, and turned to the monsters. "Player. Fire. Many. Burning. Monsters. Dead," it recited.
"The scouts are dead," the Silverfish said numbly.
"No, it can't be," the Spider mumbled.
"But it is," the Skeleton said grimly.
"The Arsonist."
The End-NOT
"Hey guys, did anybody see my second leg on the right side? I lost it," the Spider complained.
"We don't believe that jokes anymore," the Silverfish snorted. "What, you trying to pull the 'Got Your Leg' prank on us?" Everybody else laughed, excluding the Spider.
"No, no, guys, I'm serious," said the Spider. "It's really gone." He lifted his body to show an empty socket on the right side of his body.
Everybody fainted with foams in their mouth.
X
A/N:
HPE24: Whooo, that was long. And I can't bear to think how long would it take for getting rid of the shift-enters. :(
Eta7400: :( Mom was around so long that I barely had the chance to open my own laptop but instead, I had to tell her my suggestions. Such a pain.
HPE24: Yes, you did help, but again, I did most of the writing.
Eta7400: I can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with you. BTW, THE SONG WAS FROM FILFY' ANIMALS ON YOUTUBE, OLD CLAWS OR SOMETHING.
HPE24: Indeed. Geoff's Theme-Extended is my most favourite song in the Filfy' Animals series. We don't own the song.
Eta7400: But I get the credit of the lyrics as I had to listen to it and write on my own as there was NONE in the internet. Some words were cut off as a damn character interrupted.
HPE24: Yup. And Geoff the Glitchy Silverfish is actually called the Arsonist in there, by Detective Claws (ocelot). We recommend this series, as it is very funny, and they are realistic-looking animals.
Oh and, for the Gem Domination, I created the rules, and if you want it, I can write it up in the next Author's Notes. Just tell me in the reviews!
Eta7400: Personally, I don't get the rules myself and so do you. You admitted that you were just making up as you went.
HPE24: After I told you that, I added more, and it makes sense now.
Eta7400: Fine. Anyway, you will regret giving me an excuse to reply 'cause you just lost your chance to end this chapter. Anyway, another chapter, I hope you all enjoyed watch out for more!