Welcome to Minecraft You'll Never Leave...
Chapter 19
"Mitch, you're not calling or picking up."
"I have a bad feeling about this." Log said. I nodded.
"First Adam and Ty go missing. Now Mitch is gone too."
"And Seto, and Alesa"
"Them too?!" This couldn't possibly get any worse.
You just jinxed it.
"We have to report this!" Log said, pulling out his phone. He typed in a number. "Yes, I would like to report missing people..." I listened to his conversation. Eventually he started sounding agitated. "No don't hang-" He threw his phone on the table. "Shit. The police can't do anything!"
"What do you mean?!" I asked.
"They said that just because our friends don't pick up their phones doesn't mean they're missing."
"So our friends are screwed."
"Pretty much."
"Isn't that wonderful." I looked down at my phone. My background was of Mitch and I. Together. I'll never see him again if we can't find him. "Why did the operator hang up?"
"I offended them when I asked why they weren't going to do anything."
"Why wouldn't they want to help people? You'd think that they'd want to do anything that would help." I said, shaking my head while standing up. "We have to take matters into our own hands!"
"Should we get reinforcements?" I thought about it.
"Only when we absolutely need them. Right now I think we're good." Log nodded, standing up.
"Where should we go first?"
"Well, Mitch lives here."
"Isn't his car outside?" I looked out the window.
"Yeah, it is." I opened the door, and inspected the car. The keys weren't there, and it had a tow cable attached to it. "He was towing something."
"What do you think it was?"
"Probably someone else's car." I inspected the rest of the driveway, but couldn't find any trace of another car. Something caught my attention when I was walking back inside. There were scratch marks around the lock. "Someone tried to get in!"
"What?"
"Yeah, from the looks of it they succeeded."
"But the door was locked when we came back from our trip."
"I know. The only person here was Mitch."
"Do you think."
"I don't think." I said, looking for my keys. "I know. Someone kidnapped Mitch."
"Do you think the same thing happened to Adam, Alesa, Ty, and Seto?"
"Probably."
"Where should we look?" Log asked with a look that told me he was completely lost.
"Seto's the closest."
"Then we'll go there!" I opened the door to my car, and started the engine. "Let's go."
"Seto?" I called knocking on his door. I tried the knob, but it wouldn't budge. "Do you know if Seto has a hidden key?"
"No," I pulled the mat in front of the door away. There wasn't anything under it. "What about that mailbox?" Log pointed to the mailbox next to Seto's front door. I opened it, and pulled out a key. Sticking it in the key hole, I opened the door.
"Where should we look first?" Let's work our way up." I said, and we started looking through the house as best we could. It was about thirty minutes before we got to his bedroom.
There was a desk with a note on it.
Call Ty and Adam.
"So he was looking for them too." I said.
"That means Mitch hadn't gone missing yet."
"They were kidnapped at different times." I looked around the room for anything else. I didn't find anything note worthy.
"We should check Ty's house. There might be something there." I was about to leave the room when I eyed something on the ground. I picked it up, and unfolded it.
He's not here. Check everywhere. We can't let him get away.
"What'd you find?" Log asked.
"Someone's after Seto."
"Seto?! That's not possible. He hasn't done anything wrong!"
"I can't believe it either." I heard a shuffling noise, and I froze. Log cocked his head to the side.
"Jerome? Wha-" He was hit upside the head.
"Tyler!" Log collapsed to the ground. I looked at a person who was eyeing me. "What do you want?!" I called out. The person hit the side of my head, causing the world to blend together. I tried to take a couple of steps, but fell to the ground just as the world faded to black.
My eyes fluttered open. There was a girl standing over me. "Hey! What's the big idea?"
"Oh, you're awake. I'm really sorry about the way you were brought here. I told them to be gentle. I want to help you find your friends."
"Okay, first what do you mean by them?"
"The guys that work for me. They can't grasp the concept of being gentle."
"Hmmm?" I turned my head in the direction of the voice. I saw Log, his face turned towards the ground. His head lifted, and turned towards me. "Wha- what happened?"
"I'm gonna help you find your friends."
"Do you know what happened to them?" I asked.
"Well, my research team and I couldn't find much, but from what we gathered, your friends were taken by the same person along with many others."
"So, this isn't some random, isolated deal? More people were kidnapped?"
"Sadly yes. "
"Well we have to do something about it don't we?" Log said.
"We will. I'm Anika by the way."
"Jerome." I stood up, holding out my hand. "And that's Tyler." Log nodded. "Just one question. You're not going to betray us are you?"
"No, this isn't some cliché story where it turns out I'm the real villain. You watch too many movies."
"I do," I admitted. "So, how are we going to go about finding our friends?"
"Well, what we have here is something we recently developed." Anika handed me a small remote.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't TV remotes been around for a few years?"
"It's not a Tv remote!" She took it from my hands, and pressed a button. I stared at the spot where she used to be, then at her new location a few meters away.
"I don't think that'll change channels that effectively." Log said, causing Anika to smile.
"How is this going to help us find them?" I asked. "Well, I guess the more important question is do you know who took our friends?"
"I have a hunch. There was a woman who was in my advanced engineering class. She was really good, but I did better, which made her bitter." I bit back a laugh. "Something funny?"
"I just guess you're a poet and you didn't even know it." Anika just rolled her eyes.
"She started stealing my projects, notes, anything she thought would make her better than me."
"Why do you think it was her?" Log asked.
"One of the machine blueprints I was working on went missing. I'm not completely sure but I think she did it." Anika handed me the teleporter. I shifted it between my hands.
"What about this?"
"I still have the blueprints for that one."
"So what would the machine do if the blueprints weren't stolen?"
"It was a teleporter. More specifically a teleporter I made to explore different dimensions."
"What about this teleporter?" I asked.
"This can't go to other dimensions. That's probably their blueprints never went missing." I stuck my hands in my pockets. My fingers found the note.
"I found this note." Anika took it from me.
"This is her hand writing."
"So, that means."
"She kidnapped your friends."
"So, our friends are in a different dimension?" Log asked.
"Most likely." The teleporter felt heavy in my hands.
"Could we use this?"
"I could re-wire it, but it'll take a while."
"Then lets just hope no one's in a dimension where they could get killed." Anika laughed. It sounded nervous which wasn't very reassuring.
Guess what? I added more characters. These I think will actually stay in the 'real' world, because I need them here. If that makes sense... I don't really know if it does.