Preface: Hello, again! Sorry I was only able to upload this chapter today - like I said, still ironing out some kinks! Anyways, I'm pretty excited about this chapter. I think it's one of my favorites in this saga. I hope you enjoy, too!


MINECRAFT MANAICS RPG

THE UNIKITTY SAGA:
A TALE OF TWO BLOCKHEADS!


Previously...after journeying to the Unikingdom with their new ally Max, a real-worlder trapped in Minecraft, Danny, Liam, Kevin and their companions discovered that Perinton Pig is beginning to initiate his revenge. Teaming up with Unikitty and her friends, they have currently acquired the first Gadget of Order in the Unikingdom in the depths of Action Forest.

Now...the heroes land in a fork in the road, facing a jungle and an ocean...


Roll Call

Danny - Alfred von Any: Hero with emotional issues. The leader.

Liam - Willy Blanq: Expert crafter. The maker.

Kevin - Nevile Napoleon: Part-gangerman redstonist. The brains

Pork Chop - Dee Bradley Baker: Danny's companion. The pet.

Spawny and Spawnette - Damien Laquet: The rabborg siblings. The heart.

Buzzer - Jim Cummings: Psychic fly from the future. The fairy.

Max - Max Brooks: Real-worlder trapped in Minecraft. The load.

Unikitty - Tara Strong: Princess of the Unikingdom. Near-eternally optomistic.

Puppycorn - Grey DeLise: Unikitty's brother. Not the brightest prince.

Dr. Fox - Kate Mucicci: Unikitty's brainy friend. Resident scientist.


Chapter 16:
Pursuit Through Happyness, Part Two -
Living the Life of the Bubbles!


[Main Party Selected: Danny, Liam, Kevin, Buzzer, Unikitty]
[Supporting Party Selected: Pork Chop, Spawny, Spawnette, Max, Puppycorn, Dr. Fox]

[Character Selected: Buzzer]
[Current World: Lego Planet U]
[Current Location: Unikingdom, Fork in the Road]

[BGM: Nick Keller - Beach Daze BGM]

Buzzer watched as the heroes teleported to the beach where he landed after spinning around them. Danny, Liam, Kevin, Spawny, Spawnette, and Pork Chop landed pretty normally, while the others were disoriented and fell on the sand. "This wouldn't have happened if I had used my own teleporter!" complained Dr. Fox, face-first in the sand.

"Does that ever get better?' asked Max, lying on his back.

"The more you use ender pearls," said Kevin, helping Max up.

"I've heard of those," Max responded. "What even are those?"

"Ever encountered a normal enderman?" said Danny. "They drop those."

Unikitty looked at Buzzer, who seemed to be spazzing out, flashing between red and blue. "What's wrong, Buzz?" she asked, concerned.

"This is why I was dreading a fork in the road!" Buzzer groaned. "My brain can't handle leading to two Gadgets of Order at once!"

Kevin began to think. He turned on his watch and activated the lifeform tracking feature. He saw two relatively similar lifeforms on the tracker, one in the jungle behind the heroes, and the other in the ocean in front of them. "How does this look, Buzzer?" he asked, holding his watch up to the fly.

Buzzer inspected the watch. "Fascinating," he said, "those definitely seem to be the gadgets. If you can track their lifeforms, then that means we are able to split up!"

Kevin nodded and inspected his inventory. Besides a turtle shell helmet enchanted with Respiration, he found a few more Mario power-ups, including a Frog Suit, an Ice Flower, and a Metal Cap. He shared his findings with Liam and Danny and said that two of the total group could go underwater.

Lima looked over and saw Unikitty putting on a red one-piece with daisies on it. "Well, guess she's already going." He inspected his own inventory and found a potion of water breathing extended. "I'll take the rest of the gang into the jungle with Buzzer. You two, the rabborgs, and Unikitty go into the water."

Danny nodded and turned to Pork Chop. "Whaddya say, Porky? Wanna go with Liam instead?" The pig began to think. Although he almost never left Danny's side, he knew he couldn't breathe underwater, either. He gave an oink signifying that he'd go with Liam. "Attaboy!" Danny said, giving him a quick hug.

"Are you sure you can handle this on your own?" asked Buzzer.

"Totally," said Danny, putting Pork Chop down. "We've been through a lot!"

"Okay, then," said Buzzer. He turned to the other heroes. "Come on, everyone!"

"Guess I'm going with those guys," said Puppycorn, a little apprehensive. "Good luck sis!"

"You too, baby bro!" said Unikitty. With everyone saying their goodbyes, Liam led the remainder of the gang into the jungle with one last wave goodbye.


[Character Selected: Danny]
[Current World: Lego Planet U]
[Current Location: Unikingdom, Fork in the Road]

With Buzzer's gang in the jungle, that was our cue to prepare. "Frog Suit, por favor!" I said to Kevin, holding my hand out. He put the power-up in my hand and I began to put it on, absorbing its power as I did.

"(Shall we transform, as well?)" asked Spawnette.

"(Totally, sis!)" said Spawny. The rabborgs hopped into the water, and as it splashed on their amulets, they began to change appearance again, this time becoming mermaids. Spawny got a dolphin-like tail and his crown got an orb of water in it, while Spawnette got a fish-like tail, plus the seashell you-know-what and a wave-shaped tiara.

Unikitty stared in awe at their transformation, with mermaid-like icons coming out of her head. And then she looked at my appearance. "Aw…"she giggled, "that is the cutest bathing suit I've ever seen!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yuk it up!" I said, annoyed. "I may look silly, but this bad boy will make swimming a breeze!"

"And now, my turn!" said Kevin. He ran up to the ocean and inhaled a huge amount of seawater. A crown-like hat appeared on his head, with a cube of water in it, signifying him getting the Water ability.

"Hey! Just like Kirby!" said Unikitty.

Kevin gave a nod in agreement and checked his watch. "Okay, we just need to move forward for a while, then turn left when I call for it!"

"Aye-aye. Captain!" I said, giving a salute. Just then, I remembered something. "Oh, but first…" I gave Unikitty the potion of water breathing. "Drink this. It'll let you breathe underwater for quite a while."

Unikitty drank the potion in one gulp. "Hmm, interesting taste," she said. "What's in it?"

"Pufferfish, nether wart, and redstone." I swear, Unikitty almost gagged when I said that, but she was too amazed by the blue, swirly particles coming out of her. "Alright, let's swim!" I said, before she made any more observations. With that, we all hopped into the water, ready for whatever we'd find down there.

[BGM: End]


[Character Selected: Bruno]
[Current World: Lego Planet U]
[Current Location: Unikingdom, Town Square]

Bruno tumbled out of the portal like a ninja, with Molly jumping out after him. The two were awed that the portal actually worked...and that this strange world looked nothing like Minecraft.

"I'll admit that Kevin's a good modder," said Bruno. "This looks absolutely nothing like Minecraft!"

"Yeah, a little too absolute…" said Molly, a little suspicious. She looked in the book again to double-check her knowledge. "So according to the book, the mojangs should somehow be here."

"In that case," said Bruno, "let's start right now, and not leave a single block unturned…"

Little did they realize that Molly dropped the book as they ran off to search...


[Character Selected: Unikitty]
[Current World: Lego Planet U]
[Current Location: Underwater]

[BGM: Nick Keller - Super Amazing Raft Adventure BGM]

"Wow! This potion really worked!"

Unikitty was incredibly amazed by how she was able to breathe the water like it was air. She watched as the others effortlessly swam alongside her.

"Fresh from Liam's batch!" said Danny. The Frog Suit let him breathe underwater as well, in addition to letting him swim better, just like in Super Mario Bros. 3.

Kevin looked at his watch through the blue pair of goggles that his hat turned into when he went underwater. "Okay, we should be coming up at the turn pretty soon!" he reported.

As he flipped his tail and swam along, Spawny looked into the distance. "(Uh, guys?)" he called to the others. "(You may wanna come look at this!)"

Everyone swam up to where Spawny was pointing to and looked. It seemed an entire underwater civilization was in the distance, kinda like Atlantis. It looked almost like the Unikingdom.

Unikitty gasped in delight at the sight of the town. "It's the Manakingdom!" she cried. "It's the home of my new friend Meratee!"

Kevin thought for a moment. "Can we trust her?" he thought.

"Yeah! Come on!" Unikitty grabbed Danny and Kevin's hands and pulled them into the Manakingdom, eagerly.

"(She seems a bit too excited,)" said Spawnette.

"(Oh, please, that's tame compared to when we first met,)" Spawny chuckled. The rabborgs began to swim towards the other three, curious of what was to come.

[Location Change: Manakingdom, Town Square]

Danny was thankful his arm wasn't pulled off. He looked around at the Merakingdom and saw that it was remarkably like the Unikingdom. He noticed that all of the citizens there had fish tails. "I can see why this is called the Merakingdom," he remarked.

The rabborgs quickly caught up with the others. "Well, you two certainly seem right at home!" laughed Kevin.

Just then, they heard a voice shout Unikitty's name. A manatee with a purple seashell bra and tail swam up to the cat and gave her a big hug. "It's sooo nice to see you again, Meratee!" replied Unikitty.

Meratee let Unikitty go and took notice of the other heroes. "Oh, who are these?" she asked.

"My new friends, Danny, Kevin, Spawny, and Spawnette!" said Unikitty. "Guys, this is Princess Meratee!"

"Cool, nice to meet you," said Danny.

"We're looking for this ancient artifact called a Gadget of Order," explained Kevin.

"Oh, I think I've heard of that!" said Meratee. "It's in this cave, but this meanie clam won't open up because I need two other mermaid princesses with me!"

"(I am a princess,)" Spawnette added, "(and I am currently a mermaid.)"

Unikitty got an idea. "Ooo! Can you turn me into a mermaid?" she asked Meratee.

The manatee thought for a moment. "I can try, but you know what I need!"

"Oh, yeah!" Unikitty began to think of happy things like her favorite foods, her kingdom, her friends...and when the sparkle matter protruded from her head, Meratee felt its power enter her body.

"Bra of shells and a long, scaly tail," she chanted, "let my friend enjoy life with the whales!" And then, Unikitty started to spin around in a water tornado. And when she stopped, she had her own bra and tail...and a head full of red hair. Meratee sighed. "Ugh, I always give them hair! I'm sorry!"

"No, I love it," said Unikitty, to which Meratee blushed.

"I officially ship them," Danny whispered into Kevin's ear.

Kevin rolled his eyes. "Is that really necessary?"

"No," admitted Danny. "And I don't care."

"Oh, come on, you two!" said Unikitty. "We gotta get that gadget!"

"You're right!" said Danny. "Lead the way, Meratee!"

"What's the magic word?" said Meratee, teasingly.

"Wololo?" said Kevin, sarcastically, waving his hands.

"Eh, close enough," said Meratee, beginning to swim with the others in the direction of the gadget.

Little did they realize what they would find there…


[Character Selected: Kevin]
[Current World: Lego Planet U]
[Current Location: Underwater]

[BGM: C418 - Axolotl]

Meratee and Unikitty are chatting it up like there's no tomorrow, so you keep checking your watch to make sure you're going the right way. Thankfully, you still manage to stay on the trail. The coral actually looks rather impressive, for stuff made of Lego.

"So, are we getting close?" asks Danny, a little anxiously.

"Yeah, why?" you ask back.

"I told you, I gotta go somewhere soon, and besides, I'm pretty sure we're gonna have to fight!"

Before you can add anything, you suddenly see a laser form and shoot at Meratee. "Ow! Who did that?" she yelps in pain.

Danny gets his sword out. "Guardians. Perfect."

Sure enough, the cuboid, cycloptic fish are everywhere, their spikes sticking out. "What are those things?" shouts Unikitty.

"All you gotta know is that they have lasers and spikes," you respond. "So be careful." You swim up to one and, with your Water powers, spit a huge glob of water in its face, which does a fair amount of damage.

"Well, I can't let you fight on your own, can I?" says Meratee. She swims up to another guardian, charging up another laser, and right before it fires, she spins right though it, almost like someone with a trident enchanted with Riptide.

Unikitty struggles to fight the guardians with her stone sword, as the Fire Aspect enchantment isn't very effective. She manages to swim away from the lasers, but a few spikes hit her in the process. "Owie! That hurts!"

"Here! Let's do it together!" says Meritee, taking her hands. She begins to spin around again, and their combined power does more damage than before.

"(Say, why don't we try that?)" Spawny suggests. Spawnette takes his hands, and the two simultaneously perform the attack. While they're able to take care of a whole grouping, they damage themselves in the process. "(Nope! Never again!)" Spawny cries.

Meanwhile, Danny tries something new. He uses his sword without added power, but adds his enhanced swimming ability for an added jab. "Man, I should try this next time we go to a monument!" he says, downing a guardian and grabbing the prismarine shards.

Globs of water shoot everywhere from your mouth as you take care of the more weakened guardians that the rabborgs tried attacking. "Everyone doing okay?"

"We certainly are!" cries Unikitty, spinning through another group of guardians with Meratee.

"And just one more…" Danny says, aiming his sword at the last guardian. The two foes fire lasers at each other simultaneously, and Danny's laser eventually overpowers the guardian, finally finishing them off. "Whew! What a rush!" says Danny, wiping his forehead.

"(That seemed a little too tame for Perinton's standards…)" said Spawnette, a little uneasy.

"Well, until the real thing shows up, we gotta eat!" You begin to munch on some salmon from your inventory.

"That was pretty fun," says Unikitty. "Let's do it again sometime." She seems to blush a little.

"I'm telling you, they like each other!" Danny whispers into your ear between bites of steak.

"So what?" you respond. "I've seen Spawnette blush at me whenever I compliment her! Doesn't mean she has a crush on me!"

[BGM: Antimo & Welles - Prismarine Mobs]

You personally take what happens next as pure karma: Danny gets shot by a whole new laser, sending him right to the ocean floor and causing the Frog Suit to fly off of him.

"Danny!" cries Meratee, swimming down to him. She looks at his normal body. "Wait, you aren't a frog?"

"Nope," says Danny, "just a Minecrafter running outta breath!"

"Catch, man!" you cry, tossing him the turtle shell. He swims up to it and gracefully lets it fall onto his head, before giving a thumbs-up.

Just then, a rumble spreads across the landscape and the figure that shot out the laser is revealed - a giant, ghostly guardian. "So, you dare to try to take back the land of the Ancient Guardian?" it booms.

"You don't own this land!" cries Meritee. "This land belongs to everyone!"

"Then try and prove it," the Ancient Guardian responds. It closes its eye, and suddenly, its spikes begin to shoot out at the entire group.

"It's shooting its own spikes?" cries Danny. "It's evolving! Game over, man!"

"Can't you do a spell or somethin'?" you cry out.

Danny gives a cry and swings his sword at the ground. The same glowing barrier that he created back in King Creep's pyramid appears all around you. "Okay, that should buy us some time," he says, letting out a breath.

Spawny begins to think. "(Say, Kev, when was the last time we went to the Nether?)" he asks.

"Last week, maybe?" you respond.

"What's the Nether?" asks Unikitty.

"We'll tell you later," Danny answers. Just then, he gets what Spawny was getting at. "Hey! I think I still have some magma cream in my ender chest!"

Meanwhile, the Ancient Guardian has gotten a little fed-up. "Enough hiding, you cowards!" he cries, and shoots another laser at the barrier. It manages to stay up, but it suffers quite some damage.

"Just get it out, already!" you cry.

Danny takes his ender chest out of his inventory and begins to look through it. "Mmm, maybe you have it?" he asks, not finding a thing and closing the chest.

Another laser suddenly hits the barrier, so you waste no time in looking through the ender chest. Sure enough, there's quite some magma cream in the chest. Quickly, you place them on your left hand's crafting grid, and the ghostly figure of magma blocks appear in your right hand.

The Ancient Guardian fires one last laser, and the barrier shatters. "Craft them already!" Danny cries. You close your hand and craft the magma blocks.

"Okay, you two distract him," you say to Unikitty and Meratee, "we'll make a ditch and try to suck this guy in!"

"Yeah, okay!" says Unikitty, determined. "Yo, big meanie!" she cries at the Ancient Guardian. "Try and get us!"

"Oh, don't make me laugh!" the Ancient Guardian shouts. It begins to shoot lasers from his eye at Unikitty, and spikes at Meratee, but they manage to swim away in time.

With the Ancient Guardian distracted, you, Danny, and the rabborgs swim right under it and begin to dig a five-block deep ditch. "Man, this is gonna take a while," says Danny, struggling to dig with his bare hand.

"(Allow us,)" says Spawnette. In their mermaid forms, she and Spawny are able to dig in the sand as quickly as on land.

"Thanks, buddies!" you say. You and Danny begin to place magma blocks in the ditch. The heat causes spirals of bubbles to come and begin to suck everything in.

"Okay, we should've thought this through a little more!" Danny cries, struggling to swim up.

"(Come on!)" shouts Spawny, digging a tunnel away from the ditch. You and Danny follow him and Spawnette out of the ditch, right in time to see Unikitty and Meratee get hit by a spike.

"Oh, no!" Danny cries, swimming up to them. "How bad is it?"

"I...think we'll be...fine…" says Unikitty, unconvincingly.

"No way are you two going out like this!" Danny says, determined. He takes his sword out and twirls it around, before aiming it at the two.

As he does that, you watch as the Ancient Guardian panics and struggles to swim out of the ditch. "W-what's pulling me in?" he cries.

All you do is smile as the Ancient Guardian begins to meet his demise with the heat of the magma blocks. If Liam were here, he'd probably say "Whoops! Forgot to call the floor is lava!"


[Character Selected: Unikitty]
[Current World: Lego Planet U]
[Current Location: Underwater]

[BGM: Antimo & Welles - Underwater Temple]

Unikitty opened her eyes. She was still underwater, holding Meratee close to her. "What just happened?"

"Boom. Fixed you two up." said Danny. Just then, he got a bit of a panicked look on his face.

"What's wrong, man?" asked Kevin, looking over.

"My mom's calling, Gotta go!" Danny responded. "Just get the gadget and tp me to you when we rejoin tomorrow!" After that, he vanished into thin air.

"W-where'd he go?" asked Meratee, panicked.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you," said Unikitty. "He and Kevin are guys from the real world communicating with us through a video game. He just left."

Meratee shook her head in disbelief. "Man, today's been sooo weird, even for this world."

"Whatever, let's just get that gadget!" said Kevin.

"It should be right there!" said Meritee, pointing to some sort of alcove. She began to swim towards it, with Unikitty and Spawnette swimming along.

A pink clam sat inside the alcove. "Back to try again, are you, Meritee?" he said, mockingly.

"Don't worry, I have two more mermaid princesses this time!" said Meritee, confidently. As she said that, Spawnette and Unikitty swam in.

"Hmm, I'm impressed," said the clam. "Just put all of your hands on me, and I'll open up."

Obediently, the three put their hands on the clam. He felt the mermaid magic in him, and he slowly opened up. Inside was a white, spinning object with a blue glow. Spawnette picked it up and it made a ding. "(Thank you, Mr. Clam,)" she said, politely.

The three swam out and saw Kevin and Spawny with dumbfounded looks on their faces. "The weirdest thing just happened," said Kevin. "The Ancient Guardian just up and vanished!"

"Hmm, that is weird," said Unikitty. "Like he was part of the gadget this whole time…"

"Y'know, it's getting pretty late," said Kevin. "C'mon, we should try and meet back up with the others."

"Okay, let's start swimming back!" said Unikitty. "Before we return to the Manakingdom, Meratee," she told her friend, "It was nice seeing you again."

"You too, Unikitty," said Meritee.

Kevin watched the two hug, faintly blushing. Okay, maybe Danny was right, he thought, but if I were in charge of this story, I wouldn't make those hints that on-the-nose!

[BGM: End]


[Character Selected: Perinton]
[Current World: Lego Planet U]
[Current Location: Unikingdom, Town Square]

Perinton chuckled to himself. You clever genius, you… he thought. First putting a spirit in the jungle with a bunch of gangermen, and giving that cat's rival the next gadget… Suddenly, he noticed something that caught his eye.

He swooped his wither to the ground and saw a book on the ground. He reached down and grabbed it before he flew the wither back up to the hill where he entered the Unikingdom.

"I wonder what's in here," he thought aloud. He opened the book and began to flip through it. Then, he settled on a page marked "Feeling Potions."

"Hmm, this is quite fascinating…"

To be continued...and next time: the same time, a different adventure!


Next chapter: While Danny, Kevin, Unikitty, and the rabborgs were off swimming, the others were off in the jungle, facing "The Wrath of XaPhobius!" There's another Nether reactor being charged by a new Minecraft feature, but the heroes can totally handle them - it's XaPhobius himself where they may have trouble...


Postface: Chapter complete! I'm really glad with how this chapter turned out, although I'll admit: some of the edits I was given I didn't completely listen to...

Trivia time! I decided to have the 'fork in the road' situation because it'd make the story a tad more interesting. Plus, I'm quite fond of chapters happening simultaneously! And another Mario power-up shows up: the Frog Suit! I've never gotten far enough in Super Mario Bros. 3 to actually use it, but I figured that it was a big deal back in the day because of how rare it was. Something about it seemed to appeal to me, so I decided to work it in! As for Meratee, I based her off of the manatee-mermaid that appears in Unikitty's cheese-induced hallucination (that's also where Unikitty's mermaid design stems from). Part of the reason why this chapter's one of my faves is because I have a small love of mermaids - that's also why I introduced the rabborgs' water forms here! But the other reason why this is one of my faves is because of the subtext between Unikitty and Meratee - I figured they'd be a potential ship, so I decided just to tease whoever would possibly agree with me. I originally had Danny and Kevin's dialogue surrounding it be a bit more of a "Take that!" at shipping, but I was told to make changes to avoid offensiveness...

That should be it! Please read, review, and share around, and I'll see you next time for Liam's perspective on this chapter! I'll also try to uplaod some more side stuff over the weekend. Stay diamond, everyone!

-Alfred


~Minecraft and everything related to it are properties of Mojang Studios and Xbox Game Studios. Objects, ideas, etc. from the Mario franchise are properties of Nintendo Co., LTD. Unikitty and everything related to her are properties/licensees of Lego System A/S (The Lego Group) and Warner Media, LLC. No copyright infringement with any of these companies nor financial gain was intended in the making of this story. Any resemblance to real-world people or events are either coincidental or done fictitiously.~