To Save Us All | Escaping Minecraft

Chapter One: Once Again

"Hey, I'm heading onto the factions server, 'kay?" I told my friend.

"Are you gonna record on it?" he responded. "Zach! You're just wanting publicity."

He laughed. "I mean, you do have quite a number of viewers. And you're younger than me, and you've barely started YouTube, and you have almost three million subscribers." I nodded. It was true.

He was four years older than me, and had around a hundred subscribers. I blamed that on him not uploading a lot, and not a lot of Minecraft. I'd always had a fondness for Minecraft; when I was younger I used to go to his house and we'd play together. 

Now, I had my own gaming setup and we could play on servers together, mainly on his faction server (IP: zzwhoops.us.to   1.15.2 Java edition - tell him Lily sent you). 

Ever since the glitch last year, I was tentative of joining Minecraft, but I knew I had to do it. What would my viewers say? They'd be screaming, "Just do it!" Of course, that was because they didn't know what happened... but Zach did. In fact, it was on his server that I was trapped. With just a few of my friends, some of them just starting to play, we had to beat the ender dragon and escape. 

Although, it was easier in that world. We had enderman spawners and blaze spawners, we could easily craft the eyes of ender that we needed. It was finding the stronghold in the onslaught of mobs that was a problem.

Zach, always trying to make our experience harder, had tweaked the mobs to make them more overpowered. By a lot. Skeletons had amazing aimbot, there were zombie brutes that had an exploding attack, kinda like the wither, where you had to melee it, and creepers exploded almost instantly. Those were just a few of the tweaks he made.

I sighed. Better to get it over with. I disconnected from our call and opened up Minecraft. Last second, I decided to go on Hypixel instead. 

Suddenly, I felt a white light burning into my eyes. 

In an instant, I was transported into the game. I looked around, it looked like a singleplayer survival world with no signs of development. Then I heard someone familiar. I wasn't alone.

"What?! Are you serious! What is this place?!"

I spun around. Silver-blue eyes met a masked face. I whispered, "Dream?"

Dream nodded. "Woah..." I muttered. "So.. this is like a public server then." Dream looked confused. "Uh, who are you?" I smiled. "Oh, I'm Lily. You know my channel?" Dream nodded. "Yeah, I've heard of it. You're a lot younger than I expected." I heard another familiar voice. 

"Yay, the one who headshots me half the time is here." The voice said unenthusiastically. "Techno!" 

"Yeah, hi Lily. Uh, you know what's happening?" I nodded. 

I couldn't believe my luck, even though I was trapped in the game. At least I was trapped with two of the best players in the game.

I took a deep breath. "Okay," I began. "We're trapped in Minecraft. Judging by the amount of people that are here, there's multiple spawns. I'm guessing that maybe everyone who was playing the game at the moment is in this world."

"Wait, wait." Techno interrupted. "You're saying-" He was cut off by Dream. "We're stuck in the game?" he asked in disbelief. "Yeah," I replied. "Look down, everything's in blocks. But you're not a green blob. I think the game put you into normal clothes and human form. Not green blob form," I added. 

Techno laughed. "Yeah, that'd be funny if you were a green blob," He said. "Hey!" Dream replied, mock hurt.

"Anyways," I continued. "We're trapped in what's like a multiplayer survival world, and the only way to get out is to beat the dragon. Uh, we're stuck in hardcore, look down. The hotbar and your health and stuff is all over there. Opening inventory and crafting you just think about it, and it opens. Oh..." I looked down in memory of my friend.

"What is it?" Dream asked. "If you die..." I sighed. "You're forgotten outside of the game. You don't respawn. Well. The game chooses, it's like an RNG. I-my friend died last time." They caught onto what I was saying.

"You were in here before?" I nodded sadly. "Last year."
Dream looked confused. "Wait, how old are you?" he asked. "Twelve," I replied. "I got stuck last year, but we got out really fast. It was a factions server, we could buy stuff. That time was easy."

I suddenly thought of something. "You know, we should talk later. Time moves faster, and the mobs have way better AI. We'd better gather resources first. And maybe try to meet up with some other people?"

There were clumps of people scattered within my sight, maybe twenty people total. I headed to a tree and started breaking it. "Uh, wait. How does this work? Like, how do we break stuff?" Techno asked. "Just... think about breaking it, and your hands will cooperate. It's easier once you get tools. Oh yeah, and you can modify crafting recipes to make different versions of tools and weapons."

"Huh."

We gathered enough tools by nightfall to make a shelter, and I'd found some sheep. It was only enough to make two beds, though. "You guys sleep," I told them. "I'll keep watch, in case anything spawns close. It's like singleplayer sleep, anyways."

So, they dozed off, Dream making me promise I'd wake him up in the middle of the night. 

But, as he'd soon find out, I had no intention of keeping that promise whatsoever. 

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Okay, I need to eat now. BYEEEE

~Lily