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Here is Chapter 5 of the Koopalings in Minecraft!
Disclaimer: Nintendo owns Super Mario Bros. and Mojang owns Minecraft. I own neither. Also, I did not steal any characters, names, or other things that I made up myself from any other authors.
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Once the Koopalings and the guards reached the castle, they went inside it.
"Your brothers, Lemmy and Morton, are currently in the Visitor's Quarters," a guard said. They went up to a contraption with Redstone and buttons. The guard pressed the fourth button, then the sixth button, then the third button, then the second button. An Iron Door swung open, revealing several small 8x8 and 16x16 houses.
"They should be in this house," a guard said. They went up to a 16x16 Cobblestone house, and a guard pressed a button. The Iron Door didn't open, but a note played.
"Coming!" Eventually, the door opened to reveal Morton! "Larry! Iggy! We've been looking all over for you!"
"Hey Morton! Where's Lemmy?" Iggy asked.
"Off at the library, researching. Come in, I've got lots to tell you," Morton said. The guards left and Iggy and Larry went inside Morton's house.
"First, we want to ask you some things. What happened when you and Lemmy battled Issrod?" Larry asked.
"Well, we chased him into a corner, hitting him with Arrows. Once we cornered him, zombies and skeletons came out to protect him! We battled them and killed them, but Issrod got behind us while we were fighting and lit TNT! We were trapped, but Lemmy found a piece of Cobblestone. Thinking it was suspicious, he mined it and we escaped into this city. Lemmy then jumped when he got hurt by the explosion - he wasn't far enough away -, and accidentally threw his Diamond Sword. Issrod must've picked it up…and that's where we are now," Morton explained.
"We mined that same piece of Cobblestone to get here," Iggy said.
"Anyway, here's what I have to tell you. This world is called Minecraftia. It's in a different dimension than Plit and Earth. I still don't know how we got here, though."
"You know Dungzor, Issrod, and Aughm? They're not random griefers who have nothing better to do than destroy people's creations. They work together. They're ruled by a person called Nethor. Nethor is an evil human who became trapped in the Nether somehow. Living in the Nether has corrupted him and made him evil. He's now corrupting native Minecraftians to create portals so that he can use them to spread the Nether to Minecraftia and eventually have the Nether consume Minecraftia. He'll then rule the entire Nether, and therefore, all of Minecraftia."
"This city is called Minecraftia's Blade. It's the main city that fights against Nethor's forces. Also, the zombies, skeletons, creepers, and spiders aren't native to Minecraftia. Well, the spiders are, but they used to be peaceful. When Nethor began gaining power, he created Dungzor. In turn, Dungzor created zombies, skeletons, and creepers. He sent them to Minecraftia and made spiders hostile. When they first appeared, thousands of Minecraftians died every day and night to them. Eventually, they learned how to battle the monsters, and the death rate fell, though many people still die to creepers. Anyway, once Dungzor discovered that the monsters were no longer a threat, he created dungeons that are extremely hard to conquer. He did feel that anyone who could beat a dungeon deserved rewards, and put one or two chests in each dungeon. Rumor is he's working on a new type of monster that is even more creepy and hard to defeat than the creeper…Not much is known about Aughm and Issrod, though, besides that they weren't created by Nethor and willingly joined his army."
"So there you have it…we've learned a lot from the citizens of this city. No one knows how we could've gotten teleported from Plit to Minecraftia, though. Lemmy's in the library looking for info," Morton finished.
"So, let me get this straight. Nethor is an evil guy who wants the Nether to replace Minecraftia with the Nether so he can rule it, and he's doing it through portals. Dungzor was created by Nethor and created skeletons, zombies, and creepers, and is currently working on a new monster. Aughm and Issrod joined Nethor's army willingly," Iggy said.
"That's right," Morton replied.
"Wow…at first I thought this was Lemmy's server…looks like we instead got teleported into Minecraftia in real life, and not the game which takes place in Minecraftia!" Iggy said.
The doorbell rang. Morton pressed a button next to the door and the Iron Door swung open and revealed Lemmy!
"Lemmy! Did you discover anything in the library?" Morton asked.
"Nothing…hey! It's Larry and Iggy!" Lemmy said.
"Yep! We've found the city, and Morton told us about Nethor and the history of this place," Larry said.
"Yeah. We have to stop Nethor before Minecraftia becomes the Nether. I'm guessing we're going to have to go to the Nether to fight him," Lemmy said.
"Hey!" Larry said. "You said that Nethor spreads the Nether to Minecraftia through portals, right? Well, remember how we escaped from that trap of Gravel made by Pistons? There was a portal that led to the Nether there!"
The other Koopalings gasped. "That's true!" Morton said.
"We have to go back to Dungzor's base, get back into that cavern, relocate the portal, and destroy it. From what I've heard and read, destroying the portal on this side will also destroy the Portal on the other side," Lemmy said.
"Well then, let's-wait…what's that noise?" Morton asked.
The Koopalings went outside the house and listened. The noise was a note that would replay every two seconds.
Suddenly…
BOOOOOOOOOM!
The entire Visitor's Quarter blew up, and all of the wooden houses went aflame. Almost immediately after the massive explosion, each house made out of Cobblestone or Bricks blew up, leaving a massive crater there! Suddenly, holes were blown in the City Walls, revealing armies of Zombie Pigmen and Ghasts!
"Oh no! Minecraftia's Blade is being invaded!" Larry said.
"Zombie Pigmen and Ghasts only come from the Nether! This must be Nethor's army!" Lemmy said.
A guard called out, "Everyone! To arms! Fight off Nethor's invading forces! Grab equipment from the Armory!"
"Let's go!" Morton said. The Koopalings ran to the Military Quarter and went inside the Armory. The Armory was full of chests containing Diamond and Iron Swords, Bows, Arrows, Flint and Steels, TNT, and Iron and Diamond armor. The Koopalings all grabbed Diamond Swords, restocked on Arrows, grabbed Flint and Steels and TNT, and got full Diamond armor.
"Let's get them!" Lemmy said. The Koopalings ran to the front of the city and joined the fight. Lemmy took out 24 Zombie Pigmen quickly, and used his Bow to shoot down 7 Ghasts.
Larry sneaked up on about 35 Zombie Pigmen and took them out. Morton took out 16 Zombie Pigmen, and lured about 10 others into a TNT trap. Meanwhile, Iggy stayed up on the City Walls, shooting Ghasts with arrows. Iggy took out 50 Ghasts by himself, then took out 30 more Zombie Pigmen.
A voice suddenly boomed through the city and the cave it was in. "Enough! This will be finished!" Suddenly, zombies, skeletons, creepers, and spiders joined the Zombie Pigmen and Ghasts!
"There must be a thousand of them!" Lemmy said, striking a Zombie with his Diamond Sword.
"We'll eventually be overwhelmed if we don't get help!" Larry said, hitting a Creeper with arrows and then finishing it off with a Diamond Sword.
"What's that over there?" Morton asked. He pointed towards cages with flames coming from them.
"Monster spawners!" Lemmy said. "We need to push them back and reach the spawners to disable them!"
"They're spawning monsters at a ridiculous rate; one every second! Can we do it?" Morton asked.
"I hope so!" Lemmy killed another zombie with his sword.
The skeletons were the main problem, even more so than Ghasts. While Ghasts were dangerous, being high up and causing explosions with fireballs, skeletons shot explosive arrows at the combatants, then would duck behind a four block high tower to avoid getting shot back at. If someone pursued the skeleton behind the tower, the skeleton switched to a Diamond Sword and attacked.
"We need to take out those skeletons!" Iggy said.
"No problem!" Larry said. He ran to a tower where a skeleton hid, put TNT in front of the tower, and detonated it. The tower blew up and the skeleton got killed. More soldiers began to do this, and the number of skeletons fell drastically…only to be replenished by the spawners.
Despite this, the army of Minecraftia's Blade continued fighting undaunted. They slowly pushed back the army of monsters until they finally reached the spawners. TNT was planted around each spawner and then was detonated, blowing the spawners to bits. The last bit of monsters were killed after that.
"We did it! We've defended Minecraftia's Blade!" Lemmy said as he killed the final zombie.
"Well done!" a guard said, congratulating the rest of the fighters.
"The battle's not over yet…" an ominous voice came. Suddenly, cages appeared around all the fighters in the battle! Then, Dungzor, Issrod, and Aughm appeared!
Suddenly, the dead fighters got up as zombies and skeletons! Nethor's zombies and skeletons got up again, and the dead creepers and spiders got up as either zombies or skeletons.
"We're surrounded! I wouldn't be surprised if there was a million of them!" Lemmy said.
"Now, Minecraftia's Blade shall be conquered by the very people who died defending it!" Issrod laughed evilly. The zombies and skeletons charged into Minecraftia's Blade.
"Anyone who survived the battle will be put in the jail cell," Aughm said. Dungzor, Issrod, and Aughm laughed evilly.
A few hours later, all of the living people in Minecraftia's Blade (besides Issrod and Aughm) were inside the Obsidian jail cell.
"I can't believe it…Minecraftia's Blade, conquered by the very people who swore to protect it…" a soldier said.
Another soldier looked out the small 1x1 glass window at a patrolling zombie. "Look! There's my cousin!"
"We need to get out of here. Any ideas?" a soldier said.
"None. There isn't even a door; the entire cell is made out of Obsidian," another soldier said.
"Obsidian is breakable. Let's break it and get out of here!" Larry said.
"Obsidian takes 50 seconds to break. One of the patrolling guards would notice us breaking it, even if we started breaking it right after he passed," a soldier said.
"Nobody else here has a Diamond Pickaxe?" Lemmy asked. After the patrolling guard passed him, Lemmy broke a block of Obsidian under the 1x1 glass window, placed dirt so they could get up there, then smashed the glass. "Hurry! Let's escape!"
The soldiers and the other Koopalings ran up the staircase and escaped the jail, only to quickly be pursued by about twenty zombies!
"Quickly! Let's get out of here!" The Koopalings and the soldiers escaped through one of the holes in the City Walls, and eventually lost the zombies.
"Phew…let's rest and then retake Minecraftia's Blade!" a soldier said.
"Sorry, but we can't join in the battle. You see, we found portals," Larry said.
"Where?" almost all the soldiers said at nearly the same time.
"They were near Dungzor's secret base. We're going to go disable them; hopefully we come back in time for the battle," Iggy said.
"They won't be a battle by the time you get back; we'll have won by then!" a soldier said confidently.
"Good luck!" the soldiers said as the Koopalings ran back to where the Cobblestone that they discovered Minecraftia's Blade behind.
Eventually, the Koopalings reached Dungzor's base once more. "It was over here!" Larry said. The Koopalings went back to where the 32x32 TNT room was, only to find out it had been reconstructed!
"Looks like Dungzor reconstructed the traps. Come on!" Iggy ran up to the Iron Door and placed a Redstone Torch, igniting the TNT. "Quickly! Get through!"
The Koopalings ran through the door and into the Obsidian shield. The blast revealed a cave. The Koopalings ran into it and found an Iron Door before long.
"This is where the portal we found in the Nether took us. Come on!" Iggy put down a Redstone Torch and the door flung open. The Koopalings ran in, and sure enough, there was the Portal.
"Destroy it, Lemmy!" Iggy said.
Lemmy nodded and took out his Diamond Pickaxe. Lemmy mined the Obsidian until it was destroyed, deactivating the portal. "Yes!" the Koopalings cheered.
"Just in case they try to reactivate it…" Lemmy placed Obsidian inside the portal.
"Great job, Lemmy! Now the portal is deactivated and completely blocked! Let's get to the other one!" Iggy said.
The Koopalings ran out of the room and continued following the cavern, taking care to jump over the pressure plate. They went up to where the Pistons were and Iggy opened the Iron Door with a Redstone Torch.
"Here it is! Destroy it!" Morton said. Lemmy destroyed it with his Diamond Pickaxe and covered the inside with Obsidian. "Great work!"
"Phew…well, that's two portals down," Iggy said.
"Hey! I got an idea! Since we didn't step on the pressure plate, let's go look for Dungzor's stash of Diamonds!" Larry said.
"Good idea!" Morton said. The Koopalings went back to the cave and followed it, eventually reaching a well lit room made out of Moss Stone, and a Chest in the middle!
"Yes! Loot the chest, Lemmy!" Morton said. Lemmy opened the Chest, only to find a piece of Dirt.
"There's only dirt in here…" Lemmy said.
"Look! There's three signs here!" Larry said. Iggy read the signs.
"Hahaha! Sorry, but I knew you were searching for my Diamond stash all along! I've taken it somewhere safer. There is some dirt as a compensation prize, though. Hahaha! ~Dungzor."
"No! He's taken the Diamonds!" Larry said.
"Well, that's the least of our worries. Remember, we still need to find out whether or not Minecraftia's Blade was retaken!" Lemmy said. The other Koopalings nodded, and they went back to the cave Minecraftia's Blade was in.
When they got there, people were repairing the holes in the City Walls and repairing and replacing items that had been damaged or lost in the attack.
"Phew! Looks like Nethor's forces were beat back!" Iggy said.
Suddenly, a man with a cloak that had the letter M on it ran up to the Koopalings. "You are Lemmy, Iggy, Morton, and Larry, correct?" he asked. The Koopalings nodded. "I must congratulate you for your valiance during the first battle. Without you, we most likely would've been defeated right then and there, and never found out about the monster spawners."
"I'm Warlor Incerior. I am the ruler of Minecraftia's Blade, but enough with the introduction. I need you to be at the center of the Military Quarter in 10 minutes!" Before the Koopalings could respond, Warlor ran off.
"Well, I guess we should help rebuild the walls until then," Lemmy said. In 8 minutes, the City Walls were 78% complete. The Koopalings then went to the Military Quarter.
There were 5 other people there, and a podium. Warlor stood up on the podium. "My fellow Minecraftians, Nethor has been attacking us too long. This attack on Minecraftia's Blade was the final straw. We must stop defending, and begin attacking!"
"However, we have discovered that Nethor's lieutenants, and most likely Nethor himself, are able to raise the dead as zombies to fight for them! If we send the army to the Nether to fight Nethor, that will most likely be an additional army on Nethor's side! We must send the most elite fighters in a small group to the Nether to fight him! We are that group! The rest of the army will protect Minecraftia!"
"A portal has been constructed in the Armory! We must go to the Armory, prepare ourselves, then step into the portal and go into the Nether! However, once we go to the Nether, the portal will be deactivated and blocked with Bedrock, so we will not be able to go back until we kill Nethor! If you do not wish to continue on this mission, please step back."
After seeing that no one stepped back, Warlor stepped down from the podium. "Are you coming too, leader?" a soldier asked.
"Yes. As the leader of Minecraftia's Blade, I'd rather fight for it than stay cooped up in my castle," Warlor said. The soldier saluted.
"Let's go to the Armory. Replace your Diamond Swords and Armor, for they must be weak after that battling, restock on Arrows, get some Mushroom Stew, and tell me when you're ready to go to the Nether," Warlor said.
The Koopalings and the soldiers went to the Armory. They replaced their swords and armor, restocked on Arrows, and got food. "Looks like we're ready," Lemmy said.
"Okay," Warlor said. He looked at a guard of the Armory. "When we pass through, destroy the portal and put Bedrock on the inside. We either come back with Nethor's head, or we don't come back."
"Bedrock? Are you sure?" the guard asked.
"Positive. In case we get defeated, Nethor cannot be using this portal to spread the Nether to Minecraftia. It'll delay him a few minutes, at the most, but still."
The Koopalings, Warlor, and the soldiers jumped in the portal. Their vision got distorted, until they finally warped to the Nether.
The guard took out his Diamond Pickaxe and started mining a block of Obsidian to deactivate the Portal. Once it was deactivated, he placed Bedrock inside the Portal. "Good luck…" he whispered.