Chapter 13
Once they got to the moon base they heard a machine power up and Lewis shouted "Get to cover"! They did as they were told and hid behind trees and small hills. "Who's there, come out ya buggers" someone shouted from the base. "Simon it's me, turn the turret off, no one is gonna hurt you". Simon slowly walked out and pulled the wire out of the turret. "Lewis, where have you been ya bastard. You told me you wasn't going to be long. That was six months ago". Before Lewis could answer Simon looked round Lewis and saw Sky hiding behind a tree. "Who's that then, is it one of Sips Co's spy's". Lewis turned round and said "No, that's Sky, she saved Hannah and Kim from them two".
"Really, but she is like 13, how could a 13 year old do that". Sky angrily said "I'm 15 actually". "She is one of those vampire hybrids, you know the ones that nearly killed you that one time" Lewis told Simon who was looking more confused that angry. "Is anyone else here or is it just you two". One by one everyone came out of hiding and Simon's face light up at the sight of his friends. "Well I'd be buggered you found a lot of them haven't you".
"We should get inside before the rain starts, you know how much I hate rain", Duncan said as they walked up to Simon. "I guess you're right, come on then, I have potatoes in the oven".
Once everyone was settled inside the moon base, Simon asked why they were here. "Sips Co are after us and this was one of the safest places I could think of". "Well you're right there, I have had no troubles with the guards or anything". Sky and Duncan were down where the smeltery was as Sky didn't wait to hear about Sips Co again for a little while. "So this how does work then", she said well examining the strange furnace thing. "Firstly we need some lava to power it so lets do that before anything else. Here is a bucket, if we go to the nether we can get some easily".
"I have never been to the nether before, but I have seen pictures and videos of what it is like". Duncan told Lewis where they were going and that they will be back soon. "Just whatever you do, don't hit one of the zombie pigmen", "I won't promise". They stood in front of the portal and Duncan asked "Are you nervous"? "I little bit, you think I would be fine with it, since I teleport places but this is completely different". Duncan held her hand and said "We'll go in together okay, I'll be here the whole time". She nodded her head and they stepped into the portal.
"Wow, it's a lot warmer here then I thought". Duncan laughed and said "Come on we need to hurry". They ran down to a pool of lava and collected as much as they needed before returning to the portal and stepped back into it.
They walked back down to the smeltery and Duncan poured the lava into the tank and started to explain how it works. "Basically you put the ores you find into this bit here and it will start to melt. And if you come over to this side there is three taps. If you tap one of them, it will pour out the liquid into a block of that material."
"That is so cool". Sky was interested in how this worked. "Also you can make awesome tools. I wonder if my sword is still in the hidden chest". He walked over to a blank wall, pulled out a lever and placed it on the wall. He pulled it and a chest appeared from the wall. Duncan searched through the chest and said "Found it", he pulled out a pink sword. "This is my candy floss chopper". Sky couldn't help but laugh "Candy floss chopper, really, only you would name a sword that".
"Don't laugh, I do have a matching pickaxe but it went missing while I was on the moon". Sky stopped laughing and looked at him, "You went to the moon"? "Yeah it was about a year or so before Sips Co went a bit mad with power". Sky got her book out and scanned one of the pages. "It doesn't say you went to the moon in here". Duncan was the one laughing now, he walked over to her and turned the page and pointed to one of the paragraphs and said "It does, but we didn't really let a lot of people know we did".
Sky blushed and asked Duncan "Could you make me one of these weapons". "I'm sure I can, we still have all the materials here as don't think we can get here from our base we had. Do you want a sword then". Sky nodded, "Alright then if you grab some ores out of that chest, I'll grab the plates". And they spent the next hour making Sky a red sword out of the stuff they got from Deadlands. Once it was finished Sky couldn't stop smiling. "Thank you Duncan", she said and then hugged him. He hugged her back and they were interrupted by Hannah shouted down to them "Get a room". They stepped apart, both blushed and walked upstairs to talk to the others.