Ep. 21: Stuck in Limbo
Suggested by: Ninjamaster01
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-Ghosteez (Ghosteez)
(In the final days of summer, everything will change to set the mood for autumn. As a result, new mobs from around the world will venture onto the landscape of Minecraftia, bringing about new experiences and adventures. Near the forest biome, nearly all the trees were a bright orange, red, or yellow. Leaves fell like raindrops, littering the grass beneath the oak trees. Walking through the multi-colored forest is Sky and Dawn. They look around as the beauty of autumn is just breath-taking. The falling leaves reflect off of Sky's sunglasses, as well as the approaching sunlight miles away. The couple look ahead as the blocky sun starts to rise in the distance, bringing up the once-dark night into a crimson-gold sunrise).
-Dawn: Wow...it's so beautiful.
-Sky: Yeah...not as beautiful as you are, though.
(Dawn blushes from the compliment. Sky pulls her closer to him and wraps his arm around the back of her neck. The couple rub their heads together affectionately).
-Sky: Nothing can ruin this moment...not even-
-Voice: ME!
(The sudden shout makes Dawn and Sky leap out of their embrace. The voice they recognize is Bashur's. The happy-go-lucky melon laughs as he frolics through the grassy field in front of Sky and Dawn. The couple sigh annoyingly as their special moment was ruined. But they didn't mind. They had invited several of their friends to check out the scenery of autumn. Jerome, Deadlox, CaptainSparklez, Kermit, Sierra, Bashur, Bodil, Ghosteez, and Ryan. Everyone check out all of the friendly mobs, from rabbits to different types of insects that crawled or flew. Bodil, on the other hand, just looked at something for a few seconds, then destroys it. While everyone was exploring, Bashur and Sierra are having an interesting time, looking at a maggot that is crawling along the grass).
-Bashur: What is that!? It looks like a crawling booger or something.
-Sierra: That's a maggot, Bash.
-Bashur: Oh...
(Soon, Bashur's curiosity is peaked and he decides to poke the small creature. But he pokes it a little too hard and the creature stretches and leaps a bit into the air, making Sierra and Bashur jump back).
-Sierra: Ugh! EW! It stretches when you touch it!
-Bashur: That's what she said...literally. You're the one who said it.
(Sierra chuckles at the melon's sense of humor. Meanwhile, Bodil's friend, Ghosteez, a man dressed in an orange, black, and yellow suit with a visor with three aqua-blue lines going horizontal, is crafting an axe to check out some of the new types of trees and their woods. However, Bodil is up to no good and is in a trollish mood right now. When the suited man isn't looking, Bodil quickly grabs the crafting table and runs off with it. Ghosteez turns and gets angry by the troller).
-Ghosteez: Bodil, will you stop!? That's, like, the 5th crafting table you've taken from me.
-Bodil: No! I have a fetish for crafting tables.
(Ghosteez ignores the last comment and starts chasing the Bulgarian, who responses by running away).
-Ghosteez: Give it back!
-Bodil: Uh...no.
-Ghosteez: Give it back...
-Bodil: (defeated) Fine...
(Bodil stops running and places the crafting table behind him. Ghosteez stops in his tracks and resumes crafting his axe).
-Ghosteez: Thank you!
(A while later, Sky and several of his friends trek through the tall color-changing trees, exploring the world around them. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The occasional buzzing of insects and various types of animal noises would met their ears. After walking a few feet away from the guys, Sky stumbles across something weird. A door. He scans the door carefully. Right behind the door is a glowing black, white, and blue portal, swirling around. He looks behind him and calls for the guys to come over).
-Sky: Hey guys, come look at this.
(The Minecrafters pad over and look at the wooden door in front of Sky. They can see the swirling portal through the small square holes of the door).
-Kermit: What is that?
-Sky: I don't know. I just happen to stumble upon it.
-CaptainSparklez: I think that's a portal to some other dimension or something.
-Sky: Maybe...
(Taking a risk, Sky carefully approaches the door. He cautiously grabs the handle and slowly turns it. The portal comes into full view, the black and greenish-blue colors twirl around in a very eerie sort of way).
-Sky: Guys, do you think I should go through it?
-Dawn: No! Who knows what's in that other dimension? You could get hurt!
-Jerome: I don't know. You should check it out. It looks pretty cool. Besides, what's the worst that can happen?
-Dawn: Uh, there's always that possibility that Sky could get hurt.
-Sky: Why don't you all come with me? That way, there'll be plenty of eyes to keep us safe.
-Dawn: (hesitantly) O-Okay...
(Sky walks up to the portal. He slowly lifts up his hand and touches the surface of the portal, causing a slight ripple. Then, he sticks his whole arm in it. He walks right through the portal. Dawn quickly runs up to the portal and steps through it, worried about Sky already. Slowly, the others make their way through the dimensional portal. Finally, Ghosteez is the last one to go through. But before he does, he analyzes the portal).
-Ghosteez: I've never seen a portal like this one before, but...why is it so vaguely familiar to me?
(After a couple of mintues of analysis, something hits the Minecrafter mentally).
-Ghosteez: Oh-no...the others...they'll get stuck...I gotta get them out of there!
(The suited Minecrafter runs through the portal, causing it to let out a hard ripple).
(Meanwhile, in the other dimension, Sky and the others appear out of the portal. They look around as everything is black, only a stone brick path is seen in front of them).
-Sky: This place looks weird, but cool at the same time. See, Dawn? There's nothing here that can harm us. Let's see if there's more on this stone brick path.
(Slowly, Sky leads the group along the only one brick wide path, careful with each step. Suddenly, Ghosteez appears out of the portal in a panic).
-Ghosteez: Guys!
(The sudden shout makes everyone jump. Sky looks behind him at the Minecrafter).
-Ghosteez: Guys, we need to get out of here now!
-Sierra: Why? We just got here.
-Ryan: Yeah, and nothing else bad has happened to us. We're all fine.
-Ghosteez: No, guys, you don't understand. You see, this place is known as-
(Suddenly, the stone brick path beneath the Minecrafters disappears. Everyone falls into the pitch-black darkness and scream. Their shouts for help slowly become echoes as they vanishes into the eternal darkness).
(5 mintues later, everyone is still falling, nothing else had changed in their environment).
-Dawn: AHH! I knew there was something wrong with that portal!
-Bashur: Are we still falling!?
-Kermit: We are!
-Sky: We can't keep falling forever. But that happens, we're all gonna die!
(Suddenly, everyone hits the ground, but strangely, none of them get hurt. They don't feel pain or anything. Sky gets to his feet, as well as everyone else. They can see each other, but not what is around them).
-Jerome: (quivering) Wh-Where...Where are we? How are we still alive?
-Deadlox: Did...did we fall out of the world?
-CaptainSparklez: Deadlox, it has been scientifically that one cannot simply fall out of the world. The path just collapsed beneath us, and we...seem to have fallen in a dark and desolate place.
-Ghosteez: Ugh! This is exactly what I was trying to tell you guys.
-Bashur: What exactly were you trying to tell us?
-Ghosteez: This place we are in now is Limbo. We're stuck in Limbo.
-Bashur: Limbo? Isn't that like a game where you hold a pole in front of you and try to go as low as you can by leaning backwards on your back?
-Ghosteez: No, you idiot! Limbo can also mean a state of neglect and oblivion, which this place happens to be based on. I've done my studies about this place and that portal. It didn't come to me until now.
-Bodil: Well, what's so scary about this place? I don't really see anything that could harm us.
(Bodil glances up, then screams).
-Bodil: (girlish) AAAAHHHH!
-Sky: Bodil, what is it!?
(Everyone else look upward and scream in fright).
-Everyone: AAAAHHH!
(Staring right above the group of terrified Minecrafters is a giant, red eye with a small red iris and a black dot, representing the pupil).
-Bashur: What...the...balls...?
-Ryan: Guys, there's a giant red eye above me, staring into my soul.
-Sierra: Um...guys? The giant red eye above us isn't our only problem.
(Everyone looks ahead where Sierra is looking and gasp. Several wall-looking entities are seen slightly moving. On them is a red, curved line while some have a half-open red eye).
-Jerome: What the heck are those things?
-Bashur: I don't know, but let's get them. I'll punch them in the eye. It'll be easy.
(Bashur yells as he runs up to one of the enemies. But his arm is quickly grabbed by Ghosteez).
-Ghosteez: Bash, don't!
-Bashur: Why not?
-Ghosteez: Okay, I need all of you to listen to me if you wanna get out of here!
(Everyone decides to be quiet and listen to the Minecrafter).
-Sky: Okay, then, tell us how to get out of here.
-Ghosteez: Okay. You see, we only have a certain amount of time here before we're all trapped. So what we need to do is to start running downward through this dark place to the deepest point. If we don't get in there in time, we're gonna be stuck here forever.
(Everyone gears up to start screaming, but Ghosteez quickly stops them).
-Ghosteez: But before you all start screaming like you're in a horror movie, here's an advantage. You take no fall damage, so you can jump from the highest point that you are at and you'll turn out fine.
-CaptainSparklez: So, is that how we survived that fall all the way down here?
-Ghosteez: Yes.
-Bashur: But what about those wall thingies with closed or half-open eyeballs?
-Ghosteez: Those things are called Monoliths. Those things don't hurt you, but you need to steer clear from them. Their eyes will slowly open up and when it is fully open, you're basically screwed. If you get too close to them or you try to attack them, they're gonna teleport you to a random part of Limbo and we'll never see you again.
-Bashur: Oh, geez! This is even more scarier than that time me and Jerome went to see 'Abnormal Activity 2'. I literally peed my pants out of fright. And I may have soaked the entire seat I was sitting in as well.
-Sierra: EW! That's disgusting.
-Jerome: (slightly annoyed) Yeah, we got banned out of the theater for 3 weeks, and for those past weeks, Bashur constantly called me to go up to his INN and watch him overnight to make sure the 'ghosts' don't get him.
-Bashur: But I eventually got over it!
-Jerome: It took you 2 whole months to get over it, you baby.
-Bashur: You're the baby!
-Ghosteez: Look, we don't have time for this! We gotta start running!
(Ghosteez and the gang start running downward. As they descend downward towards the deepest point they can find, the number of Monoliths grew higher. Several Minecrafter run past them, the wall entities slowly glance over towards them with either closed or half-open eyes).
-Sky: (panting) So...do we keep running?
-Ghosteez: We have to. It might take us a while, but at this rate, we'll find the deepest point. Oh, and I almost forgot, once we reach the point, there's gonna be a pool of reddish-brown lava. Jump into it. Trust me, it will not burn you. Once we all pass through it, it will cause a rift in time and space and we'll appear back into the Overworld.
-Jerome: This sounds like some Doctor Who type of stuff!
-Sky: But we're not gonna cause damage to time and space once we're out of here?
-Ghosteez: Well, you all may have caused some significant damage when you all of you stepped through the portal like that. The portal can't handle this amount of people in one sitting. But I wouldn't worry about it. Anyway, let's keep running.
(The Minecrafters continue to run for their lives. Bashur runs to the front of the group and looks to his side. Many Monoliths glance as he passes by them. He lets out a scared whimper and runs even faster, passing by Sky and Ghosteez. Everyone starts descending down a very steep hole, some of them trip or skid across the surface along the way, but they don't feel the pain. Eventually, they reach the very edge of the hole. A medium-sized crater is seen in the middle. Everyone runs up to it and look below. A large pool of reddish-brown lava is seen, about 30 feet below).
-Ghosteez: Okay. You all jump through it. I'll stay behind and make sure everyone goes through.
-Sky: Okay. I'll go first.
(Sky leaps off the edge. Dawn looks in slight fright as her husband plummets into the lava. He disappears soon after he touches the surface).
-Ghosteez: Okay. You're next, Dawn.
-Dawn: Um...I'm not so sure if this is a good idea.
-Bashur: Just jump!
(Bashur pushes her off the edge. She screams as he falls after being pushed off carelessly by the melon man. Everyone glares at Bashur).
-Bashur: Hey, I don't wanna get stuck in this creepy place. She was asking for it.
-Ghosteez: Ugh, whatever. The rest of you, go.
(One by one, everyone jumps off the edge and head straight for the lava pool. After Sierra jumps off, Ghosteez looks behind him. The Monoliths within the giant hole fully open their red, menacing eyes. They slowly begin to advance towards the Minecrafter).
-Ghosteez: Shit!
(Ghosteez looks at the pool of lava. It slowly begins to get smaller and smaller. The man takes a deep breathe, then jumps off at the last moment before the first Monolith could get him).
(Meanwhile, back in the Overworld, a black shaded rift appears over a patch of grass. Falling into the Overworld is Sky. He lands flat on his back. He groans as he tries to get up, but soon after he appeared, Dawn falls out of the rift and lands on his chest. Sky groans at the sudden hit. Dawn gets up and realizes that she landed on Sky).
-Dawn: Sorry, Sky.
-Sky: It's okay, Dawn.
(But soon after, Deadlox lands on Dawn, pushing her back on Sky. Then, landing on Deadlox is Jerome. Landing on Jerome next is Kermit. Landing on the frog next is CaptainSparklez. Landing on Sparklez is Bashur, then Ryan, then Sierra, then Bodil. Sky groans the the weight of his friends begins to crush his insides).
-Sky: (wincing) Is everyone okay?
(Several of them mutters 'yes' as they crawl off of each other. When Dawn gets off, she helps her husband to his feet. As soon as everyone is up and about, Bodil realizes someone is missing).
-Bodil: Wait, where's Ghosteez?
(Everyone glances at the black rift. It flows quietly in mid-air, nothing happening).
-Sierra: I don't think he made it out.
-Kermit: Oh, shit...
-CaptainSparklez: He's stuck in Limbo...forever.
(Realizing that his friend's fate is sealed, Bodil feels tears of distraught and agony approaching to his eyes, hidden behind his black sunglasses).
-Bodil: (voice breaking) Gh...Ghosteez?
(After a few quiet minutes pass. Right before everyone can admit that Ghosteez is gone for good, a figure leaps out of the rift and lands right in front of Bodil. Right after, the black rift vanishes into thin air. The figure...is Ghosteez. He shakes his head as he gets to his feet).
-Ghosteez: Guys!
-Sky: Ghosteez! Thank Notch! We thought you were gone forever.
-Bodil: (happily) Ghosteez!
(Bodil runs up to Ghosteez and hugs him hard, nearly breaking his ribs).
-Bodil: Don't ever scare me like that again! If I had lost you, who would I parkour epic jump maps with?
-Ryan: You know, if Ghosteez was trapped in Limbo, you could have always parkour with me.
-Bodil: No, you suck. Everyone has seen my videos. You lose every time we do a parkour map. Everyone knows that.
-Ryan: That's not cool, man...
-Sky: Well, we should probably call someone to have that portal door removed so no one can ever get stuck in Limbo again.
-Deadlox: Already on it.
(Deadlox dials down a number on his phone. While he is, Dawn turns towards Bashur).
-Dawn: So, I couldn't help but realize that you deliberately pushed into the pool of lava without giving me a chance to get ready.
-Bashur: Um...no hard feelings?
(Dawn responses...by kicking him in the crotch. Bashur yelps like a girl and falls to his side, grasping his privates).
-Bashur: Ow...ugh...okay, I probably deserved that. If I had done that to anyone else, they would have probably done the same thing.
-Dawn: Yeah, they bet they probably would have.
-Sky: All that matters now is that we're no longer stuck in limbo and everyone is back in the Overworld and okay...
(Sky looks down at the melon man, who is still whimpering due to the pain he is currently in).
-Sky: Well...almost everyone.
-Bashur: I think I can taste blood!
-Dawn: You don't have flesh or bones. Why would you taste blood?
-Bashur: Oh, never mind. That's just melon juice.