Hello, this is Pastrinator64 with another chapter from VOiD. Yesterday's chapter was UBER-SUCCESSFUL, and had over the regular nine reviews! Thank you all, thank you once again! Now then, how about some replies to reviews?
Replies To Reviews...
CSICreeper: That's perfectly ok.
Star223: Well thank you very much! :3 And that's ok if you have a lot of questions, I don't have a limit to how many you ask.
Enderdude: I'm glad that you're thankful, remember that I'll have the whole mini-adventure as a bonus chapter when VOiD comes to an end. Also, I'm sorry, but personally I think Tobyturner is WAY better than SkythekidRS, so it only made sense for him to win, since I'm the one writing all this.
Somebody10101: Don't worry, they're the only Youtubers that appear at all. Also, I fixed the typo, thank you for pointing that out, I would've never caught that. I'm not sure if the entire story itself will be twice as long, it's just the chapters, which I'm doing to minimize the amount of chapters. (I don't know if you read THE GLITCH, but I had a ridiculous amount of chapters.)
Guest: Yes, Tobyturner was bursting with excitement on becoming the admin. On an added note, Lucas forgives you.
Enderblazehybrid: I don't know, I never thought about that. I think that they DO have the powers, they just don't know it. I might make it that way, I'm still deciding.
Enderwolf: Maybe, because those five characters are just the main adventurers. There will be other side-characters, you'll probably appear as one of those. You never know, you might be the villain! ;D
CSICreeper: HAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! X333333
Alrighty then! Now that I've got all my replies in, it's time for the actual story!
Hello, this is Pastrinator64 with another chapter from VOiD. Last time on VOiD we watched as Mark, Vanessa, Lucas and his pet baby Creeper dubbed Bonbon all went back into the Falling Mountains to find Last Fall Cave. Once inside, they entered the Void portal sitting in the dark, but Mark found himself separated from his other three companions. He woke up in a place much like the Overworld, and he had a mysterious lidless bottle in his hand, which held a shifting black and white cube. Curious for answers, Mark explored the forest and plains around him, eventually coming to Invacuo City, where he found many other Minecraftians like him rather than villagers. After watching an Epic Rap Battle between the famous Tobyturner and equally-famous SkythekidRS he followed the winning Tobyturner for answers, and eventually was forced to break into Tobyturner's new administrator building; the Block House. Now we find him caught by security inside, so what will his fate come to be?
Now, let the story commence!
Chapter 4: Fleeing From The Ruins
The next thing Mark knew his arms were both pinned behind his back by a security guard. He struggled to break free and escape, but the guard held him tight and put his diamond sword to his throat.
"Don't move." he muttered.
Mark didn't even dare to breathe, and stared at Tobyturner, who was wiping all of the mushroom soup off his face and shirt. Once he was finished he said,
"Ok, who're you?"
Mark paused for a moment, but then answered,
"Mark Cobweb."
Suddenly, Tobyturner's eyes widened and he ran forward, raising his arm.
"Mechapixel let him go now! That's Norman Cobweb's son! I bet he married Lizzy Cake and had a son, the kid right in front of us!" he declared, shaking Mark's hand.
"There they go again with the whole "you are famous beyond compare" thing..." Mark thought to himself.
All of the fifty or so people sitting around the gigantic dinner table got out of their seats and rushed to try and talk to Mark, who was instantly crowded uncomfortably. After about a minute of that chaos, Tobyturner got all his security guards into the dining room to fend off all of the dinner-goers. Once everyone was quiet he turned and grinned at Mark.
"Mark Cobweb, how did you get from Earth to the Minecraft Dimension?" he asked.
"I got teleported by this black and white cube comet thing while walking home from a party. The reason I came in here in the first place was to ask you about opening this lidless jar, which has something just like a miniaturized version of the comet." replied Mark.
He held out the jar with the black and white cube, and Tobyturner's eyes widened even more. He grabbed the jar and said,
"This looks like the Balance Core! It is the block that restores the balance between the good and evil elements of the entire Minecraft Dimension!" Tobyturner put on a dramatic voice and declared, "There are three chapters to the Divination Of Dimensions, which is the greatest inter-dimensional prophecy in existence. The first chapter—named THE RULER SAGA—said that the Glitch would rise up from the mutated viruses of all technology on Earth and terrorize the Earth, but a year later would be absorbed by the three rulers of the Minecraft Dimension and their E.S.C. supercomputer, then be sealed away in The Void for 400 years. The first chapter was fulfilled.
"The second chapter—named THE HERO SAGA—said that the Glitch would return from its prison in The Void 400 years after its first defeat, then become more powerful by absorbing the matter of all dimensions in the universe, and attempt to consume all of the dimensions in existence in a black hole of cold and darkness. But, that after just over a year it would be sealed inside the same E.S.C. supercomputer that absorbed it in the past, and that the six heroes and two Ultra Heroes would keep Fate on its course, ensuring that the Glitch would once again be absorbed and sealed away inside The Void with even more power.
"But now we see the third chapter, the last chapter—named THE CORE SAGA—of the Divination Of Dimensions. It is said in the third chapter that the two ultimate heroes would marry and have children, who, twenty years later, would return to the Minecraft Dimension for their own quest. It is said that the Glitch absorbed from the second chapter has already regained its strength through its 20-year super-concentrated energy meditation, and that it has learned to harness The Void for itself. It has risen up from The Void's depths, turning Salutem's—the Glitch absorbed from the second chapter that turned good and is now known as Salutem—Void Palace into its own, and taking control of Salutem's plasma mass army, turning them all evil and mutated. Now it is searching everywhere for the Balance Core, and is bent on taking control of it to mutate the entire Minecraft Dimension. Once it takes over using the power of the Balance Core it will harness its awesome power to overcome every dimension in existence, one by one, and will soon become more powerful than it has ever been. It is said that the Ultra Hero will defeat the Glitch with the help the other Great Heroes, although the exact number of Great Heroes that will help you in the end is unknown."
Tobyturner switched to his normal dramatic voice and added,
"So, basically, you're the Ultra Hero of the third chapter and it's your duty to save the universe with the help of an unknown group of Great Heroes."
Mark made a groaning kind of noise and then said,
"Okaaaaaayyyyyy, I was NOT expecting that..."
"Ah, you'll be awesome!" he held up the bottle with the Balance Core and said, "This you'll need to keep VERY safe, it might fall into the wrong hands. It was originally placed in the center sanctuary in the Aether, but then the Glitch stole it before it was absorbed into the E.S.C. supercomputer from chapter and attempted to take it when it was sealed away in The Void. But, as it was plunging into The Void, it lost the Balance Core, which fell into the black hole inside The Void that connects this dimension to all the others in existence. For those twenty years it wandered, falling and falling through empty space, until finally, one day, it fell through into your dimension on Earth, the 3rd Dimension. It was Fate working her magic again!"
"Um, her?" murmured Mark.
Tobyturner shrugged and said,
"I don't know, they always say "she" and "her" when they talk about Fate, I have no idea why. Now then, what you need to do is go see Rexum the Fortuneteller for your first instructions, he will be able to tell you what to do. He lives somewhere downtown. Good luck, Mark!"
Mark was about to leave awkwardly when Tobyturner stopped him and pulled out a necklace from his own neck. It had a Nugget In A Biscuit attached the to the end.
"Here's my good luck charm. You might as well have it." he put the necklace on Mark.
Mark looked down at the Nugget In A Biscuit good luck charm and suddenly remembered the other good luck charm that his father had passed down to him. He fingered the Poptart necklace resting cool against his chest and remembered his father saying that his mother had given it to him when they were kids, and that it was his to pass down to future generations. Now he had two good luck charms.
"I hope I get double the good luck, then." he thought.
Mark left the dining room, and as soon as he was out of view of everyone he took off running.
"I'm glad to be out of THERE." he muttered to himself.
Mark exited the Block House after about five minutes of running through the maze of rooms. He stepped out onto the street and looked around. He made his way to the town square and looked at a group of signs near the stage. At the bottom of the line of signs was one board of wood that had an arrow pointing south with the words "DOWNTOWN INVACUO" printed on it.
Mark ran down the southern road for about five more minutes until he reached a part of town where the sunshine seemed blocked off from. All of the small buildings were close together, not giving him more than two blocks of moving space. In the center of the downtown buildings he saw a tent made of dark green wool sitting amongst all of the wood buildings.
He approached the tent flap and looked at the two signs placed nearby, which read,
REXUM THE FORTUNETELLER
OPEN 24/7
FREE HERBAL TEABAGS
BASIC FORTUNE = 3 GOLD INGOTS
DETAILED FORTUNE = 6 GOLD INGOTS
FULLY-DETAILED STEP-BY-STEP FORTUNE = 12 GOLD INGOTS
Mark looked at the tent flap again, shrugged, and then stepped inside. The inside of the tent was poorly lit, and the air was heavily perfumed, and Mark had a lot of difficulty taking in a breath. Then the song "Harder To Breath" by Maroon 5 started to play, and he rolled his eyes. The thick blanket of perfume and the dimly lit room made it difficult to see, as well, and Mark knocked over a couple of chairs before finally managing to sit in one that was near the fortune table.
"Hello, Mark Cobweb. Welcome to my sanctuary..."
A man walked out from the shadows. He looked extremely ancient with his wrinkled skin, pale, icy-blue eyes and dry, silver hair. He had a pair of dark green robes, tattered and dusty. In his skeletal hands he held a cube of a strange misty-covered silverish ice. On each face of the cube was a small hole, showing the inside where shifting clouds swirled around. The man—presumably Rexum the Fortuneteller—placed the block on the fortune table and sat down in the chair.
"This is my Eyestone, made from Icestone brought all the way from the Aether and with a core of swirling cold Aercloud. Now then, put your dominant hand into the core, my son..." murmured Rexum.
Rexum grabbed Mark's hand and led it into the hole. Mark shivered and muttered,
"Holy crap, that's cold..."
Rexum said nothing for a minute, but then put his own bony hand through the other hand, and inside of the core they clasped their hands together. He closed his eyes and tightened his grip, and after about ten seconds he muttered,
"Who and what, where and why, when and how... Show me all, stars, show me now. Sun, moon and stars; show me..."
Suddenly, Mark watched as all of his surroundings blurred and he, the Eyestone and Rexum were plunged into darkness. A swirl of green stars swirled around them, glowing and humming. After about ten seconds, a green beams of light burst from out of the holes in the Eyestone, blinding Mark. He shut his eyes closed, and the next second later he opened his eyes again and they were back inside the tent with the heavily perfumed air. Rexum then opened his own eyes and declared,
"You must travel to the center of Buenomalo and find the Void Transport, which will take you directly up through The Void above and into Salutem's Void Palace. From there you locate the portal room inside the fortress and enter the portal leading to the Aether. Then, travel across the Aether until you reach Notch's Aether Palace of wool, where you will place the Balance Core back on its alter. Once it is back in the Aether, its full power will be restored, and the Glitch will not be able to obtain it."
"Wait a minute," said Mark, squinting one eye. "I thought that the Aether Palace was made of Holystone, not wool."
"After the first chapter occurred, most of the Aether had been destroyed in the process of the war, and so Notch and his Mojang crew have been rebuilding the entire fortress with whatever they can obtain the easiest, and whatever is the least important to lose. Also, the rest of the Aether was reduced to merely the Aerclouds that float below, as all of the floating islands of the Aether fell from the sky and into an ocean of the Overworld below. This also caused the extinction of all living things that lived there. But do not worry, for Notch and his Mojang crew have been working since then to restore the Aether to its normal form, and maybe even add some new creatures." said Rexum, taking his hand out of the Eyestone.
Mark also took his hand out and rubbed it, still nearly frostbitten from the being inside the freezing core.
"So, how am I going to find the center of this planet where the Void Transport is?"
"You must first travel to the ancient Temple Of Day And Night. There lives the Mastermind, who will help direct you towards the center of Buenomalo. Now, go on, leave my tent and follow Fate on your important journey."
And that's exactly what Mark did. He quickly got up, awkwardly said his thanks, and then rushed out of the tent.
"Why couldn't Tobyturner recommend me to someone who isn't a crazy old cat lady... Man... Whatever..."
Mark ran in between the buildings until he was outside again. As he was running back to the town square he looked up at the Void sun—which looked exactly like the sun on the Overworld—began to lower towards the horizon, creating a nice sunset. He finally reached the town square after about six or seven minutes, a minute or two longer than it had taken him to get there than back considering all of the heavy perfume he breathed in.
Mark looked around to see that everyone around him were going into the buildings all around, supposedly to their own apartments, since he could not see any individual houses down the street. As he was watching people, he noticed that everyone was very frantic about being out at night, and they were really rushing to get inside. He just shrugged and headed out of the city onto the plains. He took off his Blockpack and set it down on the ground.
"It's a good thing I don't need to build myself a house, admins always have their lots protected. Let's see, where's a bed I can use..."
He found his bed and set it on the ground. Then he crawled underneath the covers and sighed. He was tired from his journey so far, but in his mind he just couldn't stop thinking about everything that had happened.
"Man, I wish I knew where Vanessa and Lucas and Bonbon ended up. They'd better be alright; otherwise I might die of guilt."
After he was done thinking about what was going to happen, he fell into a comfortable sleep under the stars.
Suddenly, in the middle of the night Mark awoke to something hot and sickening laying on top of him. He opened his eyes and looked at his red covers. They had turned green, and something sickening and poisonous was seeping into his chest from the sheet. Mark quickly tried to get out of the covers, but his head was stuck to the pillow, which had turned into something thick and sticky. Suddenly, a cubical bloodshot eyeball rose up out of his sheets from a prickly brain stem and stared at him. Then its pupil opened up, revealing pointy teeth, and it made an otherworldly noise.
Mark screamed and launched himself from the mutated bed, and he wrenched his head free of the slimy pillow. He jumped away from the bed and attempted to make a run for it, but the eyeball stretched out like an angry cobra and wrapped its prickly brain stem around Mark's leg. Mark screamed again and pulled his leg, trying to get the creature off, which was growling at him and grumbling.
Mark reached back in his backpack, his hands shaking, and pulled out his diamond sword. He grunted and sliced it through the creature, and his leg was free again. He ran away from his mutated bed, but something else started to wrap around his legs. He looked down and saw that the tall grass had turned to oozing blue tendrils, which were wrapping around his legs to drag him to the ground. Mark kept fumbling and making nervous sounds, and he ran in the other direction, and out of the patch of mutated tall grass.
While he was running across the landscape, he looked up in the sky to see the moon had changed as well. It had grown wide bloodshot eyeballs, and a crooked mouth with blood flowing from the teeth. Its eyes were following him, and suddenly, the moon opened its mouth and lashed out a bloodied tongue, and it cackled.
Mark shook his head and started muttering nervously to himself about dying. He ran until he was underneath the cover of the trees. Somewhere in the forest he heard the creepy film score for the movie "Beetlejuice" playing, only adding to his fear. Suddenly, he heard a hiss behind him and whirled around, expecting a Creeper, but instead it was the tree. The tree suddenly lifted up out of the ground and crawled at Mark on its roots, like a giant bark-covered spider.
Mark screamed and ran away, the tree chasing behind, its limbs outstretched. He ran around the tendril grass and past his sludgy mutant bed. Finally he was back inside Invacuo City.
He breathed heavily and looked around. The stage in the town square was covered in poisonous spikes. The ground was like jello, and Mark started to sink into the ground. He kept moving, and when he looked down he could see countless little eyeballs swimming around inside, all staring at him as he went.
"What the heck is wrong with everything?!"
Suddenly, the floor beneath him rumbled and he fell through into the sickening purple jello. He was swarmed by a bunch of the tiny eyeballs, which all screeched and bit him with their tiny teeth. Mark's screams were muffled by the thick jello around him. He was hurt, ready to pass out, and scared out of his wits. But then, something grabbed his flailing hands from above and he was wrenched out of the jello.
Mark gasped, taking in a breath of ice cold air. He was blinded by the jello, and the eyeball fish had bitten around his eyes, swelling them up, and with both those two contributors he could barely see. He only could feel the bony hand that was clasped around his.
After being dragged through the streets by an unknown source for about three minutes he was finally set down on a cool surface. Something was poured into one of his eyes, and he was able to open it again. He was looking into the face of that old man Rexum, who was holding a wooden bucket full of some blue liquid.
"What... Uh..."
"Shhh, do not speak, let me heal your other eye, boy."
The blue liquid was poured into his other eye, and he opened it painlessly. But then, as he was sitting up to look around his vision turned slightly green.
"Woah, what's happening?"
"It's the aftereffect of the remedy."
Mark looked at Rexum and said,
"Remedy?"
"Yes," he set down the bucket near him and said, "Brought directly from the Aether."
Mark took in a deep breath and said,
"What's going on outside?" he looked around and noticed that they were back in the fortune tent. "Why isn't your place all mutated?"
Rexum put an ancient finger to Mark's mouth and said,
"Please, let me speak. This world has turned evil. The Balance Core once was pure white, but after the Glitch attempted to steal it and bring it down into The Void after its defeat, all of that changed. Just by touching the precious block, the Glitch injured its code, turning half of its aura black and evil. That bottle you have there," Rexum gestured towards the Balance Core in the bottle that was still clutched by Mark's hand. "Holds the now black and white Balance Core. Now, whenever night falls, all blocks, entities, and even the environment around you, it all evolves to kill people. Everything mutates to their most lethal state. The grass strangles, the trees chase, even the moon will try to lick you off the face of the Overworld and eat you.
"We hope that the third chapter of the Divination of Dimensions will be fulfilled, and that possibly we will be able to restore the Balance Core before its negative effects spread to the rest of the Minecraft Dimension. The Glitch tumbled with it into The Void, and since we live here inside The Void it has affected us first. Everyone is forced to take shelter in the buildings where it is the safest. No one in Invacuo City sleeps, and we are forced to always be alert. We have an extreme problem on our—"
Suddenly, there was a scream from outside. Rexum stood up from his chair and walked outside, clutching a knotted staff made of a gold-spotted wood. He assumed that it was golden oak from the Aether as well—this old man seemed to have everything from the Aether. He looked outside, and Mark quickly got up, looking out of the tent flap as well.
"Oh... Crap..."
Fire was everywhere, monsters were attacking the people, and everything was blowing up left and right. Rexum quickly grabbed Mark's wrist and pulled him out into the eyeball-jello street.
"Keep hold of my hand."
Rexum raised his golden oak staff and brought it on the ground. A glittery gold box appeared around them, five blocks in each direction.
"This will protect us. Run." said Rexum.
So Mark kept hold of Rexum's ancient hand and he was pulled along. They ran out of the city, and every time something mutated would try to attack them it would be restored to its non-lethal state inside the force field, then turn mutated once outside of it. Mark looked back while running with the surprisingly athletic old man and gasped when he saw his friend Pikapika being dragged down to the ground by the tendril grass.
"HELP! MARK, HELP ME! HELP!" he screamed in his metallic Pikachu voice.
Mark stared back at Pikapika, and then looked beyond where the bombing of Invacuo City did not reach. They were being attacked, and they had to get away. But he looked back at Pikapika, who was screaming out at him, slowly being dragged to the ground by the evil blue tendrils. Finally, Mark could stand it no more, and he broke away from Rexum's hand. Rexum called out to him,
"Mark Cobweb! Stop now! We must get to safety!"
But Mark couldn't do it. Once he was by the grass patch he began to swing his sword, slicing all of the tendrils to shards. He grabbed Pikapika's hand and pulled him away from the evil patch of grass, but unfortunately, one of the tendrils grabbed Mark's shoulder and wrenched off his entire Blockpack. But he couldn't go back for it, and after a minute of running they finally caught up with the old man inside his force field. They ran through the nearby forest, dodging an abundance of creepified mobs.
Finally, after almost an hour of being on the move, the two boys and the old man stopped on the border of a desert and the plains. The sun had finally risen, and as Mark looked around him, the sand of the desert that once was quicksand returned to its normal state, and the trees and grass and everything from the forest was also restored. Rexum sighed in exhaustion and the protection box around them dematerialized. He sat down on the ground, his tattered green robes stretched out flat. Pikapika looked awkwardly at Mark and said,
"Hey, um, thanks for saving me back there. I thought you'd leave me to die, or something."
"Hey, I couldn't do that."
They stopped there for rest, and Mark thought to himself,
"Great, as soon as I get to Invacuo City it all gets bombed by some idiot and I've got to flee from its ruins. Oh, thank God that none of us are dead."
So they began their new house there. Mark walked out towards the forest and felt behind him to grab an axe from his Blockpack. Then he remembered that the tendril grass blades had grabbed it from him while he was saving Pikapika.
"Ah, COME ON!" he shouted, kicking the dirt angrily.
Pikapika was busy chopping the tree next to him with his pitch black fist.
"What?"
"I had a whole Blockpack stuffed full of supplies, and those grass blades took it from me, dang it!"
Pikapika raised his hands and said,
"Woah! Calm down! We'll make new supplies!"
Mark sighed and said,
"Sorry. You're right, I just need to chill. Hey, I just realized, how do you know my name?"
"Your username is floating above you and it says "Mark Cobweb".
Mark looked up and saw his own username floating over his head, shrugged, and then the two of them started with chopping down more trees. So they chopped down ten oak trees with just their bare hands. Mark felt a little funny doing it, since he was used to just left clicking on the mouse to break everything. Now that he didn't have an inventory or small crafting grid he was forced to carry everything on his own. Apparently, Pikapika had also lost his Blockpack during the ordeal, so neither of them had inventories, only the hotbars that were printed on their arms.
Since they couldn't change the wood into wood planks with the small crafting grid they didn't have they just used their wood logs directly to build a 8x6x4 log cabin. That was all that they could do at the moment, and they would have to wait until someone came along who had a Blockpack.
So, in other words, the three of them were completely and utterly stranded.
Creepy, creepy, and uber-creepy. That was one too many mutants for me! 0_o
Now then, how about some QAA?
To the Glitch: You don't have to be a f**king b*tch about it Why don't you fight me IRL?
The Glitch: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU... OH YEAH?! COME AT ME BRO! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
To the Glitch: Why do your posts always end with MWAHAHA... etc.?
The Glitch: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHA BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT, THAT'S ALL THE REASON I NEED MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHA!
To Vanessa: Why the glob won't you wield a weapon?! You're in a world full of monsters, I would use a weapon if I were you.
Vanessa: No! I refuse to carry something so dangerous! *humphs and sticks nose back in book*
To Tobyturner: How do you feel getting splashed in the face with mushroom stew?
Tobyturner: Actually, it was quite delicious. Not as delicious as Nugget In A Biscuit, though.
To Norman and Lizzy: Do you know that your kids are in Minecraft like you once were?
Norman: What?
Lizzy: What?
To Lizzy: How do you describe your adventure and why didn't you tell mark about it as he is crazy about Minecraft?
Lizzy: Ah, being with Norman back in Minecraft was the best adventure of my life! And yes, Mark is crazy about Minecraft, he plays it every day.
Alright, but for next time, how will Mark and his new friends handle the wild? Will they all survive for the rest of the quest? Find out NEXT chapter in VOiD!
But for now, this is Pastrinator64, and I'll see you later with chapter numbah five!
*throws sugar bomb, disappears in a cloud of fine white sugar*
Byyyyyeeeeee...
~Pastrinator64 [~]