Minecraft VR 9: Apprehension

Alex's Point of View

The past while, Player has been fighting insanely recklessly, and the rest of us it was pretty problematic. Liam couldn't get access to any spare arrows, Player had used them all up a week ago, and Kira couldn't come close to getting enough Chickens going to justify his reckless use of them. The blacksmiths over in resource were getting grumbly too, he wrecked several swords a night, and as they said, diamonds are hard to find. Personally, I was a little more worried about the rest of the camp, if he got beaten, then they would all be forced to fend for themselves.

Kira was doing all she could though, even though she was usually busy tending to food, she did manage to show up everywhere once in a while, and cheer up the group enough that they wouldn't cause any trouble. Hopefully tonight we could all catch up to him and figure out what was going on.

Players Point of View

Today was the day of the strategy meeting between the Four Captains. I was the leader of the speed group, Alex had control over the rear lines, Liam controlled the Archers, and Kira was chosen to head resource control.

When I got there, the rest were already assembled, but for whatever reason, they were really tense today.

"What's the problem everyone" I asked, figuring it was some more rebellion that we didn't have time for right now

"You" Alex answered "you're wasting our supplies on your night time excursions, our groups don't have enough materials now for the trip"

Kira continued on from this thought "whatever your reasons, you can't continue to risk everyone like this"

I was caught a little off guard, "how much was I using per night" I asked, wondering just how bad this was

"Three full arrow stacks, two swords, and a bow" Kira answered, her voice having a slight quiver, like she had been up too long, and was feeling the effects badly right now

So eventually, I ended up explaining about my mom, who relied on the VR technology in our house to do everything, from getting up to ordering food, and even working. Without it, we wouldn't be able to survive a week, let alone long enough for the doctors to find a way to fix her inability to move.

Once that was taken care of, we set it up so the captains were a lot less likely to do any actual combat, and Kira promised to set up an area near her farm where I could use the fenced off area for my own purposes.

The rest of the meeting consisted of battle tactics, as well as us finding a way to survive the problems siege mode would pose. Everyone was still a bit on edge, but seeing as there was a lot riding on this event, we couldn't afford to mess up here.

The next week or so consisted of our whole group going on a worldwide resource hunt. My personal job was to find all the animals I could, and get materials from them, as well as anything extra I could find to increase our weapon store. Kira was out finding sugar cane and cocoa beans to make extra food, as well as milk to make cake, which was highly valued by now. The rest of the people were each given various support jobs, with Liam and Alex supervising.

After a while, I found several Abandoned Mine shafts containing new recipe weapon blueprints, but these ones were strange, each one required a recipe weapon in the materials list, and the recipe didn't have the unlimited tag on them, instead, they said they could only be built inside a Nether Fortress. When I got back, everyone was already preparing for a practice siege, this one was an overworld siege, meaning that we wouldn't be fighting the same enemies, but we would still be forced to use strategy to last the night. We stepped into the desert just as the timer reached the 1 minute to go mark.

I set my equipment, my max enchanted blackstained blade, a full iron set, and the black cloak with weak null enchantments. Alex went with his water set, giving him an appearance that looked like a mirage in the desert. Liam had a set that boosted his archery skills to the max at the cost of armour points. Kira used the set we gave her, a set of iron that used leather straps instead of iron to give her increased movement, and an enchanted recipe blade with massive knockback power. Once everyone was set, there was a full five seconds of waiting

5…4…3…2…..1

SEIGE MODE ACTIVATED

With that, all hell broke loose, and our carefully planned strategy became useless. Creepers marched in massive groups, the skeletons shot from far to long distances, and the zombies were pretty much endless.

None of us had time to think even. The first zombie approached me, and got its helmet ripped off it as my blade cleaved its head in half. They were getting a little too close though, so I figured now would be as good a time as ever to go wild. The next one I met was sliced diagonally, and the fighting continued. Soon the Zombies all disappeared as the Creepers used some form of primitive strategy to blow themselves up to launch the spiders. Then I noticed something. The remaining zombies didn't vanish because of the explosion; they used the spiders to retreat.

This fight was insane, the enemies themselves were too much, the only way we could win is if we could get rid of the skeletons, but they were being covered by the army.

Spiders though, gave us a chance, a very small one, but one none the less. I slashed my sword not at the spiders, but just above them, letting the black flames transfer each time. When they switched, the desired effect did take place. The fires spread across the army, quickly reducing the army to manageable sizes. My group was exhausted now though, so we switched with Alex's group. After a while the sun came up, ending siege mode.

When we got back, we set up a new plan; this one should give us a better chance at survival. Now all that there was to do is wait to finally use it.

-End of chapter 9-

Chapter 10 preview- siege

After all this time, The group finally makes it to the Nether. The siege of flames threatens to engulf the whole group, and the enemies themselves come from a nightmare. Will the group make it through unscathed?