The next week we moved in. I got the 42nd floor with an ocean view and French glass doors to a big glass porch. It was a beautiful view! We lived there peacefully and happily until...
...six months later a huge boat slowly came in, and it was loaded with guns. My first thought was that it must be the players that destroyed 4l3x04’s house, and I assumed they found his modding notebooks because they would have used his years of work to find new modding codes like the ship they have from his ships mod. “Oh man, this can't be good”, I thought. “l don't know if l should shoot because they might have 4l3x04 modding notebooks. I don’t want them to be destroyed. I don’t know, maybe they don't, I don’t want to assume the worst, but”... Just then their ship docked at our house while l watched from my porch.
“OMG...” my radio was being hacked! It said, “We need your help! We are not your enemies!" Hmm? Should I trust them, I wondered? They could be deceiving me. I thought they were bad. As I pondered this, they shot at me and broke the floor on my glass porch! I could not get to my room! I heard Steve scream loudly, and then he shot back. So they were against us after all! It was a trick. I got out my binoculars and looked down. “HEY!!!” I saw that they had a jail cell on their boat, and outside of the cell was a prisoner with a gun... and the jail guard was on the ground - dead! “HOLD YOUR FIRE!” I screamed. “It's not them! They have a rogue prisoner! Trap him!” I called down but Steve could not hear me up on the top floor, so it was up to me to stop him. I carefully balanced on the railing of my porch, walked the railing to my room and jumped under my bed. I had a “power off” lever I had built two months ago for exactly this type of situation. I pulled down hard on the lever. When I had built it, I had added a feature that expanded the walls 100 blocks higher. It was a secret feature that no one knew about. Once the lever was pulled, people were unable to get in or out of this landscape.
Just then, Steve walked in with a shocked look on his face. “Hey, why did you stop?” I explained, “The guys on the ship are actually good, it is their prisoner that is the bad one! He escaped and then shot at us!”
Steve said, “They may be able to help, but we need to see if we can trust them first- so let's meet them at the entrance of the tower. Try to be nice so they don't think we are evil.” We undid the walls and carefully went downstairs. They seemed pretty nice since they weren’t attacking us. They came in our tower, and the first thing they did was hand 4l3x04 his notebooks and the papers they made. Then they told me that a war is starting... they said nether spies killed 4l3x04 and destroyed his house. “So it wasn’t normal players!” I thought. They were nether spies. Yikes! We agreed to help them capture their rogue prisoner. We all attacked the rogue prisoner with our diamond swords until he was dead. He didn’t stand a chance against us.
Exhausted, the other players stayed in their boat for the night.
The next day they told us about the other mods they have, and that the nether spies are way stronger than we had thought. They explained that the nether spies sent those first spies - the ones that attacked 4l3x04 - to make us think that they were easy. They were hoping this would lead us to not coming prepared. That would give them a big advantage to kill us.
I said, “How am I supposed to know if you are really on their side, and not just giving us false information?”
“Well, I don't know how to prove it, we just are.” they replied.
“I did not get your name.” I said.
“My name is Captain Zach.”
“So, Captain Zach,” I said, “When did you get this ship of yours?”
“I built it four months ago, along with the help of my crew,” Zach replied. “I have something to discuss with you, I need to talk to you in private.”
We went to my floor-to-ceiling glass room on the top floor. It has the added advantage of also being sound proof -so no one could hear us.
“Now that we are up here- I can talk to you. I have a prototype mecha in my quarters on the ship. It is super strong. I'm hoping to make the best type of mecha from the flans mod.” “However, I need your help because we need iron to build this thing. We haven't been getting any iron because we have been at sea for months.”
I did not really know what to say. I had to think about this. I decided to tell him we could help with getting a lot of iron because we have a mine. We might also get some extra from Steve’s house.
The next day we got started. We showed him how much iron we had. He had a concerned look on his face, and said that this was only enough to make one of the best kind of mecha. So, we built it. It was practically 15 feet high! Zach said that we could make more... we just needed to get the accessories from his prototype mecha, because he had a diamond drill and an item vacuum. We could mine super fast with it, and get enough iron to make 100 mechas, bwahahaha!!!
We took turns mining. It was pretty cool because the coal we mined fueled the mecha automatically. I went first. I went through our previously created mine, and mined a deposit of iron. The drill mined super fast, so I mined for hours. I got thousands of stone and hundreds of iron! Steve also mined for hours, as did 4l3x04. By the end of the day we had 1023 iron ore.
Except - there was a problem turning it into bars. We had no fuel. Just then, an idea popped into my head. We can use the ship's fuel! So Zach let us use the ship’s fuel. It took an entire day to smelt it, but the job finally got done. We built 50 of the best type of mecha with a jetpack and a minigun. Zach’s crew all got a mecha. The next step I thought was to make a nether portal. Zach, however, said he already had a nether portal on his ship. So we all lined up and jumped in.
We ended up in a cave on the side of the nether with no room, and with more and more echas squeezing inside. I pushed through and mined the cave so it was bigger, and we all fit in- barely.
“So what are you waiting for, mine your way out of this filthy place,” I exclaimed.
Everybody started mining in separate directions.
Finally someone said, “Stop mining! I found a way out!”
It was on the ceiling of the nether, right above the fortress. We had jetpacks, sweet! So we flew down. To make it harder for them we started mining down their fortress, blowing posts and crashing down buildings. There were not too many mobs but there were some blazes - which were easy to destroy with 50 mechas, miniguns, jetpacks and diamond drills!
We found a big door with voices inside, so someone threw TNT right at the door and BOOM! There must have been 1,000,000 skeletons in there, so we shot full spread at them with our miniguns. I secretly made myself explosive ammo. I shot them, but then to my surprise the whole place started collapsing! Sadly, we had lost 9 titans! Rocks fell on 20 more titans. ARGH. “This is terrible!” I exclaimed. My mecha had a sliver of health left, so I was able to get out. Rocks were injuring and killing titans so fast!
I saw 4l3x04 being buried in rock. I tried to save him, but his mecha blew up... he was dead... Just then, out of the rubble, 4l3x04 came out with a minigun! Miniguns are heavy, and he held it in one hand. I wondered why he wasn’t using two hands...until I saw that he only had one arm...his other arm was blown off! And he was still fighting! I could not believe it. He was alive! Just then, I noticed Captain Zach was nowhere in sight. In fact, I realized, I had not seen him the entire time. Just then he swooped in on an enormous helicopter! All the people got out of their mechas and jumped on board, but I stayed- there was one person left. The leader... shooting arrows at me. I saw Captain Zach below me, but the skeleton did not. He shot an arrow into my chest, and I pretended to die... almost having been killed, with an arrow in my chest, I fell over the edge and landed squarely on the front of the helicopter... then someone pulled me inside.
Captain Zach shot a nuclear bomb that could collapse the whole nether, and then flew through the nether portal. We flew right out, relieved and exhausted. Once back on the ship, I flew out of my seat too quickly and got my leg injured by the blades. I was practically a goner because of my stupidity. I fell unconscious. I had dreams - terrible dreams - about the war, and fighting, and I dreamed that 4l3x04 died. Suddenly, I woke up and stared down - I had a robot leg and robot heart! I was alive! They said I had been asleep for 6 months, and almost dead for 3 of them. Only 23 mechas lived in total from the tragedy.
“Where is 4l3x04, Steve and Captain Zach?” I asked
“They are all okay, 4l3x04 is still asleep” the doctor replied. “But they are in terrible condition with a lot of broken bones. The good news is, the entire nether is gone- it has collapsed!”
I couldn't go anywhere. My robotic leg was still unpowered, so I could not walk. I asked to be wheeled to Steve and 4l3x04. They quickly rolled me to 4l3x04’s room where he lay asleep. With a robot arm and stitches on his chest, he looked a mess.
“Where is Steve?” he asked. “He has been in his room for three months doing something -we are all wondering what the heck he is doing in there. You should try to get him to unlock the door and let you in!”
My leg got powered up, and we went to the tower to his room. I said, “Hey! It's me! AwesomeBen! Open up the dang door!”
He opened the door very slowly.
“Is it really you? Come in, and sit. I have to tell you something important... Captain Zach is also asleep - in a coma - they think he will be that way for a year or longer”.
Months passed...we got so tired of waiting. Time seemed to slow to almost a stop. Finally, after an entire year, Captain Zach woke up at last.
After the long year, everyone had healed. No more broken bones. The house was a lot bigger, with docks, and lots of boats. As time passed, happiness was everywhere and the war was quickly becoming just a memory. Normal lives returned, and we all lived happily. But then something weird started happening . I am not sure how to explain it, but people were just... I don't know...it was so strange....
