As soon as Trayaurus saw the three enter, he shut the main door.
Jemma quickly came over. "Oh, thank goodness you're both alright!"
She gave Dan a hug and then hugged Alex, who kind of tensed but hugged her back.
Stampy and Sqaishey visibly relaxed as well.
Grim wagged his tail as he ran up to Dan happily.
"We were not far from lab. Just out by the satellite dish." Dan said, while petting Grim on the head.
She nodded. "I'm glad. We saw a couple of mobs on the way in." She explained.
Alex glanced at Dan. She found a place to sit and did so with Lupis.
"Where?" Dan asked, standing back up from greeting Grim.
"Near the temple. I don't think they followed us." She answered.
Alex glanced at the door uncertainly.
Trayaurus nodded. "Even if they did, they can't get in now."
Dan glanced at the door and then other team members. "Yeah. Looks like the meeting is over for now..."
Stampy and Sqaishey nodded. "It appears that way." He agreed.
Thinknoodles and the others seemly agreed as well.
Although, they did have questions.
That's when small growling sound could be heard inside the room.
Alex put her hand on the handle of the diamond sword and glanced at Lupis, who looked around curiously and on guard.
Jemma stayed close to Dan.
"Here's a quick reminder. we don't have any weapons." Thinknoodles informed them, seeing Dan take out a sword.
Alex glanced at Dan.
"I'll take them down to the treasure vault." Trayaurus told them.
Jemma glanced uncertainly at Dan. "Are you sure?" She asked.
Dan glanced at her, with a raise brow. "Well, it sounds like a zombie."
"Which isn't good." Trayaurus added. "Come on." he led them to his office.
Alex glanced at Dan, now holding her sword. "Can't get in unless they spawn inside... Right?" she asked him quietly.
Dan nodded as he looked around. "Yeah. They also spawn in dark places."
She nodded.
Lupis started to growl as a faint hissing noise was heard.
Alex glanced at the door and gasped when Lupis and Grim tackled her and Dan back behind the desk as a loud explosion went off outside, denting the door.
Dan grunted as he pushed himself back up from behind the desk and looked towards the door.
His eyes widened. "The door... They're trying to get in!"
Alex sat up. "What do we do?" She asked him. "We can't fight creepers. It's too dangerous."
"We join the others and get some bows." Dan replied, putting away his sword to help Alex up. "Come on, Grim."
Alex nodded and took his hand as she got up.
Grim and Lupis quickly followed them.
She gasped as the ground shook from another explosion.
Dan glanced back in slight panic and picked up the pace. "Trayaurus, we got creepers coming!" He called out as they headed inside the vault.
Trayaurus turned to them. "That's not good..." he replied.
Stampy, Sqaishey, and Jemma turned to them as well.
Each in armor with some weapons.
Jemma and Sqaishey with bows and Stampy with a sword.
Alex glanced behind them.
She did not want to find out what happened if you got seriously wounded or killed while inside.
Thinknoodles and Rachelle were both armed with swords and stood by the others.
"I was trying to avoid dying in here but we can't just leave." Dan said, while taking some armor.
Alex looked at him. "We don't know what happens if we get seriously wounded let alone killed!" gesturing toward the vault door.
"I'm not willing to test that out now." she told him. "There are Creepers, Zombies, Skeletons, and who knows what else trying to break in, which might I add, is not normal for those types of mobs! Not exploding the doors open anyway!"
Jemma glanced at Dan. "They were trying to blow the door open?" she asked.
Stampy glanced at Sqaishey then back to Dan and Alex. "That does sound strange..." he admitted.
"Yes." Dan sighed before nodding his head. "We don't know what will happen to us. Too any of us." He glanced at Trayaurus and the wolves.
Trayaurus nodded in agreement. "This is the best fortified place in the whole lab. Our best bet is to make fort here until morning. It'll be easier to deal with the mobs then." he suggested.
Alex glanced at the door, hearing another explosion.
She didn't want to abandon Trayaurus and the wolves but this was dangerous...
They could at least log out and let her leave then they could log back in and not be in any danger...
But that could take too long.
"Um. Are you sure?" Thinknoodles asked, glancing towards the door.
Dan walked over to Jemma with his sword back out.
Trayaurus shrugged. "The sun would take care of the zombies and skeletons but the creepers would still be here."
"Maybe we could try something else. Like, logging out?" Rachelle suggested.
Trayaurus nodded slightly. "You could..." He replied.
Alex nodded as well. "I can't leave until all you do so I'd be the last to leave."
"If we don't hurry, we're not going to have a much choice." Dan told them, glancing at the door.
Stampy and Sqaishey nodded. "Um. One question. How?" Stampy asked.
"Beds." Dan replied, plopping a red bed on the floor. "Once you close your eyes, you wake back up in your home." He explained.
Stampy nodded. "Alright. Who's going first?"
Sqaishey and Jemma exchanged glances.
Thinknoodles and Rachelle hesitated and looked at the others.
Seeing that no one was making the first move, Dan spoke up. "Woman and children first?"
Alex turned to him unamused. "I can't go anywhere until you all go."
Jemma glanced and Rachelle and Sqaishey. "I guess we can go."
Rachelle agreed and went first.
Once she laid down, she seemed to disappear automatically after closing her eyes.
Jemma went next then Sqaishey.
Stampy watched in amazement but was snapped out of it but the ground shaking. "We best hurry."
They remaining players nodded and Thinknoodles quickly went next.
"Alex. Be ready." Dan told her.
She nodded.
She glanced at the door, worried about the mobs.
Stampy quickly hopped into the bed.
Alex went to stand by the bed when the ground shook as a loud thud was heard.
She turned to the door hearing mobs above starting to flow in.
Dan gasped. "We will be back Trayaurus." He said, before leaving the game.
Trayaurus muttered, "you better be..."
Alex quickly hopped into the bed and closed her eyes.
.
..
...
...
She felt something lick her hand.
She opened her eyes and glanced over, expecting a pug.
Instead Lupis stared back at her.
Her eyes widened. "What?"
She heard the mobs getting closer. "Oh no... No, no, no, no, no!" She quickly tried again but nothing was happening. "Why isn't it working?!"
Trayaurus shrugged. "Maybe you have to log out differently?"
"Maybe." She pulled open her menu.
The log out button wasn't letting her click it.
"It's not letting me out!" She told Trayaurus.
She heard them banging on the doors.
She felt something in the back of her mind holding her here.
She closed her eyes and laid down.
Please work! She thought to herself.
She focused hard on logging out and waking up.
Everything started to fade but not before a piercing pain shot through her leg and another in her shoulder, not hearing the warnings Trayaurus tried to give her.