Hello again, I see you are annoyed by my skipping of a chunk of a mission. Yes, no, maybe. Anyway, we have to do the disclaimer. All rights in this short belongs to Mojang/Microsoft. Also, I suspect that messing with the original storyline of the games or shows too much. I'm having these dreams lately...

Chapter 4: Flashback from the beta

Lalu and Dami is reading the Portal Forums, where, among the loads of fanfiction and heated conversations, is a link to a video labled beta videos. "Weren't you in the beta?" asked Dami. "Yes I was, and it was horrible", Lalu said. Then he explained why.

One year earlier...

"You ready for this?", Lalu said as he and Dami prepared to test the beta

"You know I am", the littile brother replied.

"Then lets get started", the older one replied back. You see, the beta testers were right now testing what the degree of realism should be and can it be prodused on servers. Lalu and Dami were part of this stage, and currently testing this in a minecraft survival game. The game is about to begin

Realism on light sting for first round. The message flashed in everyone's eyes as the match began.

Naturally, Dami went for the center while Lalu goes out to search for the other chests. The agreed to meet at the top of the mountain in the NW corner of the map.

Dami POV:

"Who knew I'll get a diamond set and sword from just 4 chest", he said as he slashed another player, killing him and getting his food. He is usually very lucky with chance, so He mostly gets good stuff(at least before his brother).

"I think I have enough for now", he says as he checks his now full invetory, stashed with food, cake, and armour, swords, and axes gold or higher. "I'll go to the mountain now".

Meanwhile... (Lalu POV)

Our older hero was not as lucky. He is decked out with a iron set with a bow, 64 arrows, a golden sword, and three sets of food and cake. Knowing his luck, he goes out and hunts for chest, ambushing others he sees with their visible nametags.

"Knowing Dami, he probably has what I have and more. Luckily, I make up that for my skill". In his gaming, he has accepted that he won't have the best things in games. He overcomes this by taking what he has and maximizing its use.

Now they both are heading for the mountain. Unfortunately for them, their is a nasty surprise waiting at the top...

Teleport to the mountain, during its creation...

"So Ola, what do think?" XxrichxX asked as he showed our author the mountain he created as a finishing touch .

"Its nice but it needs one more thing", Olatheii said as he floated down and started placing TNT...

"Wait? "What are you doing? STOP"

"Relax, im just programing this art of nature to blow 30 seconds after someone steps on it and then reset...over and over again..." Ola said with a devilish look on his face.

Back to the actual flashback...

Lalu and Dami jumped up and down as they saw each other on the top of the mountain.

As soon as they got to each other they started trading their loot and weapons. 20 seconds in, the here a slight hissing sound. "Crap RUN!!!!" Lalu said as realized what that was. They made it off, but they happend to drop of the side with the biggest drop off.

If they landed at regular realism, the instant death wouldn't come with any pain being it will kill you before you feel it. Since the realism was lowered, the pain that was felt when from death to excruciating, hurting more.

This was enough to scar Lalu with the memory and traumatize Dami so much the younger one had to get his memory wiped so he can live normally.

A week later, the makers of the beta heard about this and paid for the psychology bills and gave them money to avoid lawsuits.

Back to present...

"And that is what happened". Lalu finished as he retold their story. He would have left out that last part because one, Dami would be traumatized all over again and two, Lalu still has Dami's share of the money. Unfortunately, he had his fair share of media and knew what happened with secrets like that.

"Ok, since im older I don't mind that gory part that much but I have one more question for you", the younger one asked.

"K, I told you everything anyway, ask away."

"Where is my share of the money anyway?"

"Uhh..."

That was a nice plot twist. Still feel bad about what I did though. I should probably apologize...maybe. Anyway, hope y I you enjoyed the story and comeback for the next cha...Hello?...I have to come to court!...Ok bye.

Oh crap :(