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// Chapter 4: Getting Ready to Go 
// Story: Minecraft Ponyhunt 
// by PPEF1 
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Rainbow Dash had finally found the fortress. Now all she had to do was to get at least twelve blaze rods from Blazes. After going through at least eight hallways, she found the Blaze spawner. Rainbow Dash confidently defeated fourteen Blazes. After leaving the Blaze spawner with rods, Rainbow Dash saw Pinkie Pie and Applejack across the hallway from her.

“There she is!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Pinkie Pie and Applejack started rushing their way to Rainbow Dash with their iron axes. When they got close, Rainbow Dash swiftly juked out the earth ponies, heading out of the fortress.

“Ugh!” Applejack frustrated again. “It’s okay. You go after her, I’ll get rods.”

Pinkie Pie quickly went after Rainbow Dash while Applejack went to the Blaze spawner Rainbow previously went to. As Rainbow Dash headed out to find Piglins to trade with, she caught a glimpse of the party pony behind her.

“Crap! I can’t trade with Piglins with Pinkie chasing after me.” she thought. Pinkie then started loading up arrows, aiming them at the rainbow pegasus.

“Woah!” Rainbow said while dodging the arrows. While on the chase, Rainbow Dash spotted a nearby ledge with lava at the bottom. This gave her another idea.

Rainbow Dash quickly landed on the ledge, waiting for her victim to fall into another one of her traps.

“I’ve got you now Dashie!”

The sinister call didn’t phase the rainbow pegasus. As Pinkie switched to her axe, ready to attack, Rainbow swiftly dodged the swing, attacking Pinkie with her own axe, knocking her off the ledge, falling into lava.

“Wait, WHAT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

There was nothing Pinkie could do. The party pony went up in flames and was set back to her last spawnpoint.

“Aw yeah!” Rainbow Dash cheered. “Now I can trade with Piglins without somepony chasing me.”

After finding some Piglins to trade with, it took a while but Rainbow Dash got two ender pearls from trading.

“Alright, not the best but I can make this work. I’ll just go to the soul sand valleys and get pearls from endermen.”

Rainbow Dash arrived at the soul sand valleys. Few minutes passed and Rainbow got three pearls.

“Ugh! This is really tough! I’m taking too much damage from these guys and I’m barely getting any pearls since they rarely spawn.”

While still searching for pearls, an arrow hit Rainbow Dash right behind her, hitting her back.

“Aaahh!! What?!”

Rainbow Dash turned around to see that Applejack had found her.

“Well howdy there Rainbow Dash.” Applejack said in a sly tone. “We meet again.”

“Oh no.” Rainbow Dash thought. “I totally forgot that Applejack was still here.”

 Rainbow Dash’s adrenaline started up. She couldn’t fight back due to endermen damage and the previous arrow hit. Even if she wanted to, she would have to avoid a swing from Applejack’s axe or it’s over. Rainbow Dash quickly made a fast one back to the portal.

“Come back here you vermin!” Applejack called out.

Rainbow Dash was zooming to the portal as fast as she could. As she was on her way, Applejack got another strike with her arrow.

“Aaaahhh! Oh God!”

“Bullseye! You’re done now Rainbow!”

Rainbow knew she couldn’t take another hit from an arrow or she'd die. Suddenly, an idea popped into her head. She still has her lava bucket. With that, Rainbow Dash placed lava on the ground burning Applejack to a crisp.

“Wooo. That was close. I think now is a good time to go back to the overworld. I’m gonna have to make full armor, repair what armor I have left, repair my weapons, make a bow and arrow, get more food, and get more pearls for the stronghold.”