Well, this got delayed again, not even gonna make excuses. Let's just start this.
Hope you like, and happy new year!
At the moment there isn't anything interesting happening with our heroes, apart from cleaning up the wreckage of their town and making plans, so lets move on to another group of friends with a dream for freedom, a risky plan and a lot of luck…
Location: Global Catastrophe Survival Colony Alpha, Overworld
Time: 2:30 pm, two weeks after the events of the last chapter.
"Aww, come on. What do you mean, it's too dangerous? The drones take care of all the mobs that come near us, so it's perfectly safe!" Morgan said to her companion, a brown haired boy with blue eyes and a white, grey and blue colour scheme. He pulled down the cobalt blue scarf that was covering his mouth and reinforced his previous statement. "We are not going out there. It's against the rules, even if we do make it back we'll be punished severely for not following orders. He looked up and felt the heat of the sun beating down on him. He took ff his white jacket and wrapped it around his waist, then motioned for Morgan to do the same. She sighed and adjusted her heart shaped hairclips. "Billy, why do you have to be such a bore sometimes? There's nothing but sandy desert out here, and beyond that there's snow, and past that… we don't know. Where's your sense of adventure?" "It's been months since the worlds been in danger, and every day of it has been nothing but relentless attacks from monsters, especially during the night. If we got caught out after dark…well…I don't even want to think about it. I'd rather keep you and Lucy out of trouble." Billy continued as they kept walking. After a little while, the sun got to Morgan, and she decided to take off her jacket too. Brushing back her two massive, pink, cotton candy like pigtails that went down to her middle, she unzipped her large pink jacket embroidered with hearts on the back and front, and slung it over her shoulder. Billy had no idea what went on inside Morgan's head sometimes, but it usually had something to do with pink. According to her, she was born with pink hair and eyes and carried on liking the colour through to her current age of seventeen. Billy, on the other hand, hated pink, but becoming friends with Morgan meant having to put up with a lot of it. After a while he just tuned it out, especially due to the fact that there were more important things going on. The Colony, which they lived in, was a massive evacuation area covering the same area as a very large city that served as housing for the evacuees and protection from Herobrines forces. After the Lord of Darkness was freed, he immediately used backdate commands to devolve dozens of innocent mobs and turn them into their savage, human age forms. He then cloned them and amassed a huge and seemingly infinite army to destroy any mob or human they saw. To pass beyond the walls of the Colony was suicidal, although there was an area past the borders where an army of drones patrolled that killed any monster that came nearby, they weren't designed to fight the incredibly massive hordes that came during the night. For that, the city relied on the electric fences and Tesla Coils placed around the perimeter. So, therefore, the struggle to keep the power flowing was ever increasing. The generators were mostly powered by diesel, coal and methane gas, all of which were running out a little quicker each day. Solar and wind solutions were being tested and built as fast as possible, but it was unlikely whether this would be enough. The mines were running dry, the lava and water reserve pools were being drained rather quickly and the pollution was growing. Big Reactors were becoming popular among the people, but were expensive to set up. So far, it looked like the city would have to go twenty-four hours with no power to the walls, relying on their combat skills to fight off the incoming monsters, between the fossil fuels running out and the alternative power sources taking their place. Since the announcement people had been training non-stop and stocking up on food, water, potions and electrical storage units like batteries, energy cubes and capacitor banks. The first few days had been chaos, but now that things had calmed down and the community following a systematic regime set up by the GCSC superiors, things had returned to normal or thereabouts.
Billy and Morgan decided to go and pick up Lucy from work, she should have finished her shift by now and must be pretty tired, as their third roommate they made sure to take care of her and treat her as a friend, since she didn't say or do much else.
They took a cart ride over to The Crucible, the central hub for smelting and metal processing for use around the rest of the colony. The complex contained over a dozen buildings, all of which were the main polluters that were causing the environmental problems, so the sky was always a dirty red-orange around this area. It wouldn't be a rare sight to see hovering islands with factories on them, it was a quick way to transport things and added to the ease of packing up and moving the colony if necessary. A high pitched whistle pierced through the air, that meant it was time for the workers to change shifts. Billy and Morgan went into the nearby wire factory where they found Lucy at her station, in charge of testing the conductivity of the wires the factory produced. It was a delicate job for her delicate nature, and she was very good at it. She finished packing up her things and turned around to face them, her heterochromatic yellow and blue eyes meeting the cool blue and shocking pink of her friends eyes. They walked off home together discussing what they should do later after weapons training. Billy was gravely worried about the upcoming defence they would have to perform. He had already deserted his home town once before, during the later Surface Wars between the humans and Nether mobs. These enemies were forced into defeat after their leader executed her top technology designer, but not before Billy had left. He was afraid he could never go back, but found a new home among the colony. He hated violence, that was the reason he deserted in the first place, and he was afraid he might try and do it again, which would mean abandoning his new friends.
Later, at their apartment, they decided to watch the news on television, it was mostly just reports of the colony's productivity, but then a breaking news report made them all take notice. To conserve power, the defence shutdown would be moved up to this weekend, a mere two days away. Billy cursed under his breath. It was far too soon, and there was no way everyone would be ready by then. It looked like he would have to leave in order to survive, but there was no need to leave the girls behind. Perhaps they should come too, but where would they go? There were certainly other survival groups out there, none more so than the mysterious Twilight Resistance. Word had spread that they had made contact with the Overworld, and they might just be headed off for a new adventure. Life in the colony was very boring nowadays, all three of them knew that. Despite the luxuries they received, the colony was built for survival, not prosperity. For waiting out the apocalypse, not stopping it. Billy had lost a lot of things to war, his home, his previous friends, even his arm. He sat down on a couch and started planning. Maybe Morgan was right, perhaps they should see what was beyond the walls…