Nope, still don't own Minecraft, the majority of the characters, The Lab, or the HiveMC.
Diamond groaned. It seemed like too much effort to open her eyes. She just wanted to sleep more, not go to school...
Then she suddenly sat up as it all came back to her. Dr. Zuk, the ropes, watching her arm dissolve. She double-checked her arm to make sure it was still there. It was, but something was off.
I wasn't wearing a jacket!
As she took the fact in, she began to notice other small details. Her hair was longer, she was missing her earbuds, and said hair had turned black.
"Hey, you okay?"
A different girl was standing next to her, her long teal hair hanging down. She wore a light blue hoodie with dark blue pants. Hovering over her head was a thin rectangle that said katelyn-theboss.
Diamond recognized the nametag with a sinking feeling in her stomach. She took a second look at her new clothing, noting the incredible similarities to her Minecraft skin.
No way.
No flipping way.
xXx
Sky blinked, slowly making the return to consciousness. She yawned and sat up, moving her long hair out from under her-
Wait.
She didn't have long hair.
The girl immediately stood up and looked at her new hair, which was definitely longer. She reached up to her head and found a baseball cap-like hat, which she had most definitely not been wearing earlier. She frowned at it as she pulled it off her head to look at it. It was green, and on the back was a feathered wing design.
Her eyes widened. She remembered carefully making that design herself on her Minecraft skin. Now that I think about it...
Looking down at her clothes confirmed it: she was now her Minecraft avatar.
Someone groaned near her, and she saw about ten feet away a boy with black and gold hair. A nametag hovering over him read MM-Sfall, and she thought back to the player who had dashed in front of her earlier in the lobby.
Am I really?
Or is this some kind of dream?
xXx
Nel allowed himself to be pulled up by the other boy, who introduced himself as Jesse. The kid's bright green hair showed that unless he usually dyed his hair neon colors, something was a bit off.
He pulled down a strand of his own new silver-lavender hair, quickly recognizing it as the color he chose for his Minecraft skin's hair. A quick glance around the room- showing multiple other people in various stages of sitting up- and at the nameplate above Jesse, reading ParadoxxFoxx, proved to him what he had already guessed.
"We're in Minecraft," he said calmly.
Jesse looked at him, then down at himself. "No way. That shouldn't be possible."
"It shouldn't," Nel agreed, "But somehow it is."
xXx
Darren groaned as someone shook him. Then they hit him, and the shock snapped him up.
"Ow!" He looked around for his assailant, seeing no one but Sophie's Minecraft player, xXSpiritfeatherXx. Wait...
"S-Sophie?" The girl nodded, and pointed to him.
"Darren, right? Unless your username was taken by someone else?"
Username?
He looked down at his new clothing, and only had a second to process what everyone else was figuring out before he was teleported into a standing position in front of the game machine, just like the start of a normal game of The Lab.
But teleporting hurts a lot more in person, he thought wryly. Some of the groans coming from around him told him that they agreed.
He glanced around, noticing there were multiple people all standing in rows, just like at the start of the game. Unlike the start of the game, Dr. Zuk was already standing in front of the machine, smirking.
"Glad to see you all made it safely," the villager began. "Project Snare had not been tested before, and we were not sure how well it would work."
"What do you want with us?" a girl with blue hair to the left of Darren shouted, cutting off the scientist.
"Katelyn, I was getting to that," he sighed. The girl- Katelyn- flinched back, and Darren realized she had never said her name.
"You all have no idea how hard it is to be alone. How it feels to wish for company. The joy when you think you know how to make it, and the pain when you realize that it's not the same."
"Well, I still don't see what that has to do with us," a boy with dark, spiked,hair snapped. Dr. Zuk frowned.
"Once again, Marcus, I was getting to that. If you don't stop interrupting, I'll have to turn off your chat abilities."
When no one spoke again, he continued.
"I was created by accident, given an incredibly powerful brain by mistake. I thought I knew that I would never be able to experience true human interaction, but I was wrong, for the first time. I never could give up the idea that there were living things out there, living things that could interact with each other.
"That's when I began work on Project Snare. It was momentously hard, but with my assistants helping me, I finally completed it. And it was successful, given that you are all here now."
"Okay, that's great," Darren said, "But what do you want?"
"All right, fine. You are here to play The Lab."
There was a moment of silence, before a girl with a green baseball cap said, "Uh, I think we were here to play The Lab. I don't know about now, though."
"Skyler," the doctor said, impatience evident in his voice. "You are still going to play the game. I just want a chance to observe true emotions."
There was something else behind those words, but Darren couldn't tell what.
A boy with a gold streak through black hair raised his hand. "After we play the game, do we get to go home?"
"Good question, Richard. You will play a series of minigames from The Lab, like normal play. After the three winners are determined, everyone but them will be teleported to a different arena, where they will all compete in a game of my choosing. The two possible endings that could happen are:
"A. The winner gets a small prize that may be useful later.
"Or B. The loser gets punished."
"Erm, what kind of punishment?" A kid with the nametag EnderExile2 asked.
"That's for me to know and the loser to find out," Dr. Zuk smirked. Darren shuddered. That did not sound good at all.
"How many games are we going to play?" Virtual asked. He seemed to be one of the only ones who wasn't completely freaking out.
"As many as it takes." Well, if that wasn't vague, what was? "Are there no more questions?" Silence confirmed it. "Good. Now, I have some... 'people' for you to meet. Luna, Darr, come out, please."
Two figures appeared from the door to the lab. One was a girl with short silver hair who was grinning widely. The other was a male in a white and black tunic who wore a neutral expression.
"These two will be some of your guides here. There are others, who you will meet later."
"Wait." WolfNeko43, a girl with purple and blue hair, spoke up. "You said Project Whatever hadn't been tested yet. So who are these people?"
"We're not people," Luna smiled, "We're AI. Artificial Intelligence."
It was so quiet in the room you could've heard a piece of redstone dust fall.
"Is- Is that even possible? Perfect AI hasn't been invented yet!" ParadoxxFoxx questioned.
"Not by humans, at least not on purpose," Darr said, his face not changing a bit at the reactions.
"Well, Darr, Luna, I trust you will show these people to their rooms?"
"Yes, sir," the two responded. The scientist left without a second glance.
"All right, then. Girls, come with me!" the helper called. When there was some hesitation, she sighed. "I'm not going to bite your heads off. Unless you would rather stay out here, and it does get rather cold."
Crystal_Cloud47, the one with the hat, stepped out of line, closer to the AI. When the others gave her questioning looks, she shrugged. "She does have a point. They can't kill us before the games, can they?"
With various degrees of resistance, eventually all the females had been led away.
"Let's get going, boys," Darr said. He turned his back, leaving them no choice but to follow and wonder what the heck they had gotten themselves into by simply playing a game.
Hey, and thanks for reading chapter 2!
Happy late MLK Jr. Day to those in the States, and to those elsewhere… Happy Tuesday?
RANDOM NOTICE: If you did not see the SYOC, my update schedule is every other week, which is why this wasn't updated last week.
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