Chapter - 7 Rescuing Tom (Steve POV)

As we saw Tom carry out his plan, we stood in shock as he was surrounded by ghasts. Why would the ghasts do that if they weren't on Magmus's side? What was the real truth? We saw him get lifted up against his will, and get flown away. Now, Magmus had a valuable bargaining piece, and one he could easily use to get his way.

We knew right away that we had to go save him, so we ran in the direction that Magmus and the ghasts had headed. They headed over a field of lava, and I quickly created a bridge to get across. We ran to the other side, and continued our chase. The ghasts went into the entrance of a giant nether temple; one that looked like it had been built just to fight the ghast's large size.

We walked up to the temple, and noticed that there were blazemen looking for intruders up above, do we decided to dig down into the ground. I pulled out my pick and mined a staircase going down into the netherrack. I dug for a bit, with Papart and the scientist close behind, until I came upon a hole. I fell down it, and so did the other two.

I looked around to see where I was. It looked like the inside of a nether temple, with purple nether brick lining the walls and floor. We walked forward in the hallways, and kept heading straight for a while in hopes of finding a staircase. When we finally did, we climbed them, only to be met by blazemen guards. The shot their fireballs at us, and we all got hit off guard. I smacked into the wall and was set on fire. Pain blazed through my skin, b I charged back into battle, diamond sword at the ready. I struck the first blazeman, and knocked it back, distracting it while I hit the next two. By then, Papart had joined in the fight, and he killed he first blazeman. I attacked the other two, killing them. I picked up their blaze rods. Perhaps I would need them.

Then, the alarm went off. Noteblock sirens sounded out through the temple, and the wither skeletons were on us soon. Papart, the scientist, and I ran. We dodged the skeleton's sword swings, and fled down the corridors in search of Tom. We ran across another staircase, and ran up it quickly. We now were probably in the main hall of the temple, with ghasts crowding around a table, feasting on mushrooms.

We edged our way around the room, but it was no use. The wither skeletons spotted us, and pointed us out to the ghasts. But, they stopped, and the roof opened up as a wither skeleton pulled a lever. The ghasts picked up the wither skeletons, and they all laughed evilly as they evacuated the room. The staircase and all other doors closed, and the walls started closing in. I ran to the sidewall where a door had been, but only found lava on the other side. We figured that the only way out would be to stack, but the room was tall.

We advanced to the center of room and got out what little cobble we had. I started stacking, and Papart and the scientist followed suit. As the dimensions of the room closed in around us, we had barely managed to make it out, just as the top of our stacks were crushed beneath us, and replaced with the nether brick ceiling.

Now, we had to get beck to what we were doing before. We looked around for signs of an entrance back into the nether temple, but saw that they were all guarded.

"Well, what do we do now?" I asked Papart and the scientist.

"I've been thinking," the scientist stated, "and have developed a theory of how this temple could be set up."

"Do explain," Papart coaxed.

"Alright," the scientist began. "Well, every building should have a central point, with the rest of the structure branching off of it, like we have here."

"So what you're saying is that we're at the center of the temple?" I asked.

"Exactly," the scientist continued. "And, as you can see, we have our branch off points all around this central point. So, we have to look at this temple like the structure of our solar system, say. Everything is together, but revolves and relies on this central to stick together."

"So, basically, this center hall is almost like a base camp, a converging point where everyone can get together. So, eventually, this room will have to open back up, and the lava will have to be drained. Now, that's when we make our move."

"We have to stay up here, on the roof, but we can't be standing in the middle, for if it opens without our knowing, we could very easily fall to our deaths. So, we need another way to get down. Or do we?"

"You see, Steve and Papart, this whole temple is just a trick, a way to lure overworlders into its trap. We can't go back in, the mobs will get us for sure, and then it wouldn't matter whether or not we fell to our deaths. So, we each get on one corner, and leave one empty. But really, it shouldn't be empty. We put a fake Steve, which I have here in my bag, and give this Steve an invisibility potion, along with us two as well."

"When the room is once again opened, Steve will use this sound transmitter to make his noise sound like it's coming from the fake Steve. Consequentially, all flying creatures will rise up from the room to attack. Then, we go down. The wither skeletons will be focused on the fake Steve, and won't notice us leaving. I have three pairs of feather falling boots, level X. You'll barely notice a high when you jump down."

"Good luck, and let's get things set up."

From there, we did what we needed to do, and got in our positions. Just as planned, the ceiling started to open. I looked down and saw that the ghasts had come in through the floor. Apparently nether temples had secret passages unheard of. Once they all got positioned and started talking, I pulled out the sound transmitter, and pointed it at the Steve dummy.

"Hey you nether creatures!" I screamed. "You're a bunch of idiots!"

All of the creatures looked up, and sure enough, the ghasts and blazes flew up to destroy the dummy. I jumped down to the ground and saw the particles of the scientist of Papart. I ran down a corridor, and they followed. We turned left, then right, and took another left, and ended up in another open room. There were signs with directions pointing to certain areas of the temples. One of them led to dungeons. By then, invisibility had wore off, and we all pointed to the dungeon hallway.

We ran down the hallway without hesitation. Eventually we reached a room filled with cells surrounded with obsidian with metal bars. Random obsidian blocks dotted the outside of the metal bars in order to prevent escape if the metal bars were destroyed. We looked in all of them, searching for Tom. We saw strange looking pigmen, blazes, magma cubes, and even so e overworld animals like a chicken and a wolf.

Finally, we reached Tom's cell, and his face perked up when he saw us.

"You found me!" Tom yelped. "Thank goodness!"

I pulled out my diamond pick and mined away a block of obsidian, creating a two block high passage for Tom to exit through. He blew up the metal bars and ran out to greet us, throwing his robotic arms around me.

"Magmus, he's planning to take over the overworld," Tom explained. "If he appears at random blocks around the world, there's no way we can stop him, but I heard that they were leaving within the hour."

"How can we stop him?" Papart questioned. "There's now way we can stop a whole army at one time!"

"Or can we?" I smiled.

"Ha ha!" Tom laughed. "We're back to square one, bro!"

"That's right!" I fist bumped Tom.

"What?" Papart asked. "What are you talking about?"

"The mob code," I answered. "We'll need every mob in the overworld. Skeletons, spiders, wolves, ocelots, squids, creepers, slimes, zombies, bats, and witches."

"How are we going to get control of all of those mobs at once?" The scientist asked. "There are so many!"

"We aren't getting them all," I explained. "I know a spider that I could talk to if I could fall asleep in the overworld. He's been ranked up to the messenger of the entire overworld. He constantly updates the leaders of the mob kingdom, and they listen to him. The mobs won't want to go extinct from the overworld. They'll help us without the mob code. Let's get moving. I've got obsidian, and we'll teleport to the portal in the village. There you can give me a sleep vaccine, and I can get the message to Paul. Then, we'll just have to wait."

"All right then," Papart said. "Let's get to work.