Steve's PoV

I woke up in one of the weirdest places I have ever seen. It looked like a forest biome but there was so much fog around I could barely see.
'Cupa? Andr? Yaebi? Anyone?" I called out, but there were no replies. I looked down and saw I was ankle deep in a stream, the water was surprisingly warm and the fog seemed more like steam, but it wasn't like a sauna or anything. It made me feel oddly calm for some reason. I tried to walk around, but my feet wouldn't move for some reason.

"So, we finally meet, Chosen One." a calm, reassuring voice resonated through the air.

"Who are you? What are you? How did I get here?"

"You were knocked unconscious and I am communicating to you from another plane of existence. Allow me to introduce myself."

A bright flashing light appeared and circled around through the air like it was alive. It flew down in front of me and coalesced into a human shape, the light then vanished and in its place was a bearded man in a black trenchcoat and a black fedora.

"I am Notch." the man said to me.

I couldn't believe my eyes, or my ears. This was Notch? The great and powerful creator of all Minecraftia? A god?

"You are in grave danger, Chosen One, as well as all your friends and the many people fighting to defend their homes, the mob kingdoms may have fallen but many humans are pushing back his forces and there are a lot of mobs that have taken refuge in their lands. There are also a lot of small towns and cities in the mob kingdoms that are still inhabited, and a few villages scattered here and there that can offer a lot of support. These are all targets that Herobrine could wipe out with a flick of his wrist if he wasn't so weak right now. But there is a way to stop him. I knew that one day my brother would return, so I created a medallion that is capable of absorbing huge amounts of power. To stop him, or those who followed him, from obtaining it, the medallion was broken into many pieces, known as charms, and each one was given to a species of mob, after the players went under mobs seemed like good guardians, not that I had much choice."

I was intrigued. "So, this medallion, where are the pieces now?" I asked.

Notch looked at me and shrugged. "I don't know, the mobs were the ones who hid it."

My heart sank. If a god didn't know where these pieces were, what chance did we stand?

"But you will need to find them in order to recreate the medallion and defeat Herobrine once and for all. To achieve this, you will need more power than you currently have. I will give you what you require."

"Really? But we're so strong right now, I can't think of what we could possibly need!"

"For starters, I will update the mods that have been embedded in the code stream of this world, you do realise these are decades out of date, right?"

"Stephanie's not going to like that." I muttered to myself.

"Next I will introduce new mods, they will keep the code stable and give you new powers. Here is something to keep track of the mods I have chosen." He handed me a book, in it were all sorts of names of mods, the likes of which I had never seen before.

"Botania, Immersive Engineering, Orespawn, Pams Harvestcraft, Chisel, Aura Cascade, Witchery, MineFactory Reloaded, Dimensional Doors… The list went on.

"And a little something I've been working on." Notch said, as he touched the top of my head and I instantly felt different, like I was smarter or something.

"Now then, what is this? He held up a yellow-orange flower to me.

"That's a Daybloom, from Botania." I said, how did I know that?

"And this?"

"That's a block of Fairy Metal, from Extra Tinkers Construct."

"Correct. And this?" He continued to show me things and I named them flawlessly.

"Rune of Augmented Capacity, Blood Magic. Rocket Bundle, Quiverbow. Osmium Ingot, Mekanism. Heating Element, Mariculture. Chemical Synthesis Chamber, MineChem. Strong Infusion Stone, Magical Crops. Advanced Wafer, Galacticraft…" I nearly passed out in the end.

"Good, now you know the name of every item from every mod. You now have a skill that matches that of your comrades. You will need all your skills to find the remains of the medallion, the one that will be of most use is the creeper girl, she has the skill to find the secrets that have been hidden for hundreds, thousands or millions of years."

I was very interested in this. "You mean she has some kind of power? Some ancient tracking ability or something?"

Notch shook his head. "No, Steve, this skill is good old fashioned archaeology. Her father taught her before he disappeared, taken by Herobrine."

"Why would he want him? One man?"

"Carter Creeper was part of an organization known as the Circle, one of five permanent members along with the king of spiders, the king of Enders, the Chief of Defence of the Skeleton Kingdom, and the Zombie Queen, dedicated to finding a way to fight back against Herobrine and obliterate the horror from existence. They were, in turn, based off an even older resistance force, and even that was based off a more ancient one. Nobody knows anything about the First Order, the predecessor of all organizations against the Lord of Darkness, but they may have the answers in finding the charms, if you can find anything on them. I cannot interfere, but I will give you information if I can." He smiled and looked at me. "Your current team is another reincarnation of the First Order, the first and only to ever include the Chosen One, and, whether you succeed or fail, this will be the last one. Should you succeed, the Order will no longer be needed, and should if you fail, all life will die."

I finally pulled my legs out of the water and kneeled before Notch.

"I won't let that happen. I will defend Minecraftia as I have done countless times from Him."

"No, you won't. Not now that you have friends, teammates, comrades that will fight beside you. It was my brothers' own mistake to detonate the nuclear device, which led to your teams formation and will ultimately destroy him. It was fate that you survived being frozen in dreamless slumber as the world changed around you, fate that you met the creeper girl, the one who can find the secrets of the charms, all your lucky escapes and meetings were fate at work. What would have happened if the spider girls hadn't escaped their cities demise? What would have happened if the firebat had never turned against her own kind, her whole dimension in order to save you? What if you did not have the power to wield the Dragon Slayer?"

"We would have died long ago."

"But from here on out fate cannot be your only asset, skill must take over where luck has carved a foothold."

I looked away from Notch, into the misty horizon. Can I go back now? I would like to talk more and get some more answers but I feel as if I need to return to my friends, they may be in danger if I'm gone too long, they may even think I'm dead."

"Notch smiled once more. You have the power to go back whenever you feel like it, this is a dream after all. All you have to do is…"

"Wake up dammit, why won't you wake up!" I heard Cupa's voice say. All of a sudden I was looking into inky blackness, my eyes opened and I was lying in a bed with Cupa sitting next to me, she broke out into a massive smile when she saw I was awake.

After a few hours everyone was gathered around me, and I told them of my dream. It had to really have happened, just as Notch said the mods had been updated and new ones added, I quickly wrote down all the info I had been given from Notch, and everyone started talking. Cupa and Valerie were having a whispered yet heated conversation, they turned to me when they had finished.

"We think we know where the first charm is." they said at the same time.

"But first, we have to go meet these new guys and sort thins out with them, you're staying here because you're still injured though, let us take care of it." said Stephanie, reading a book on the new updates to IC2 and GregTech that she could use. Steve smiled. "Cupa, Yaebi, Cindy, Andr, and Stephanie, the newest incarnation of the First Order. They can look after themselves, after all, it's only a small team they're meeting with. Right?"

Authors Note:

Sorry this parts a bit late, but I made it a lot longer than usual to make up for it. are in, and they will be introduced next week on the usual date, Saturday-Sunday-Monday, depending on what time zones you are in of course. (It's Sunday for me.)

Other than that, just have fun, and stay golden!