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// Delicious Fish and Acquire Hardware  
// Story: Ponies in Minecraft 
// by yolky206 
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	The six friends finished packing up their stuff and preparing themselves to go home. The Mobs outside were no longer there and it was safe to go. Twilight quietly ushered them outside of the base and into the cave. They collected any iron or coal they missed and soon made it outside, but it was nighttime. Twilight could see Mobs start appearing every few seconds.She put a hoof to her mouth to show her friends to be quiet. They started tip-hoofing on the soft grass and his behind trees when a Mobs came to investigate the noise. After a little while of sneaking, the ponies made their way to the front door of their house. The strange thing was, Zombies were crowding themselves in front of the door and banging on it.
"What are they doing?" Rarity said in disgust. "They are ruining our poor front door with all of those bumps and cracks!"
Rarity was telling the truth. The Zombies hit the door so hard, cracks were starting to show. But the door never broke. It just seemed to heal itself after a few hits. The ponies decided to just wait for sunrise, and to make sure Spike guards the door from now on. The sun rose a few minutes later, and the Zombies that stayed by the door started burning and running away. Twilight quickly bolted for the door and threw it open with her magic. She saw Spike shaking in a corner, obviously scared for his life from the Zombies.
"TWILIGHT!" He screamed. "I was so scared and the Zombies started banging on the door. You guys were gone for three days, and I was worried!"
Twilight gasped for air before Spike came running for her neck in a tight hug. She patted Spike on the back and told him of her adventures. The five other ponies input their parts of the story as it went on. Spike told them his parts, and they were a bit boring. But he did discover something interesting...

FLASHBACK

After the ponies left, Spike was starting to get bored. He tried playing with Rainbow's dog, but it wouldn't stand up. It just sat on the floor looking at him and wondering where its owner was. Spike sighed with boredom as the sun began to set. He could hear the melody of Zombies, Skeletons, Spiders, and Endermen as they appeared on the horizon. He curled up in a corner where he began to sleep the boredom away.
The next morning, Spike had finished harvesting some more wheat to use when he saw a few Spiders staring at him. He was paralyzed, and was just watching them. The Spiders got tired of looking at him and soon scuttled away. Spike thought about them for a moment, then decided if they weren't going to hurt him, he would attack them instead. While they weren't looking, Spike inhaled and breathed a powerful burst of flame on them. Fires were on their long legs and body while they ran around in pain. The Spiders yelled their last scream and died, dropping some string. Spike picked it all up and put it in his inventory. He walked back over to the house just as noon came.
He looked at the string with interest. Spike started wondering what he could use it for, and he walked over to Twilight's book. He placed the string next to it and the book opened up to a page with pictures of string on it. It gave some boring information, and the next page showed some crafting recipies. According to the only picture, Spike needed three sticks to finish it. He quickly grabbed all of the materials he needed and soon created a fishing rod. He knew some creatures from Equestria ate fish and used these rods for it. Spike did try fish once and enjoyed it, but Twilight didn't want to buy another expensive pack of fish. He thought to himself that he could try his claw at fishing so he could enjoy the taste of fish again.
Spike wandered until he found the ocean along with a good spot to sit in. He threw the fishing line out into the water and waited. It was only a few seconds later that he felt the line go down. Spike pulled hard on the line and fell over backwards. 'Okay, maybe that pull was TOO hard.' He thought to himself. Spike looked around him and saw a fish floating nearby him. He grabbed it and quickly bit into it. He could taste the savory flavor of raw fish as he ate every bite. He reached for another bite, but the fish was gone! He looked in his hand and didn't se anything but fish crumbs. He sighed and grabbed his fishing rod to catch more fish.
It was sunset when Spike caught one hundred and fifty-four fish. He could surprisingly carry it all, but ignored the thought and went home. He wasn't hungry, but still took some of the fish for himself to eat later. He looked in Twilight's book to learn about fish, and found out you can cook it. There was a rubbed out sentance, and Spike figured it wasn't important. He split up the fish he had for all of his friends, and curled up to sleep.
In the morning, Spike got bored again. He thought about going down to the ponies, but decided against it. He instead decided to get some more wood from the forest around them. Fluttershy kept planting more trees, so there were endless blocks of wood everywhere. He set off for the thick trees and hitting the wood to collect it.
Spike cleared out a fraction of the forest when it started to get dark. He ran for the house when the Mobs were comming out. A Zombie or two saw him running and chased him. He made his way to the front door and quickly got inside. The Zombies that saw him were peering through the door to see if he was there. The Zombies could see him start to calm down, and they wanted in. So the only thing they could do was bang on the door in hopes of it breaking. Spike jumped at the sound when the Zombies hit the door, and started to get scared. He curled himself into a ball and started shaking, waiting for the Zombies to go away.

END OF FLASHBACK

"And that's when you girls came in." Spike said.
"Well, is it okay that we get the fish now so we can cook it?" Twilight asked Spike.
"Sure! Just let me pull it out. According to the book, you can cook the fish in a furnace." Spike said as he gave a small stack of fish to his friends.
"Thank you Spike. Lets put our furnaces down and cook this stuff." Twilight began working with the furnace. Her friends did the same. They each put a piece of coal with the stack of fish they got. When the furnaces died down, the girls reached in and grabbed some cooked fish. Six loud dings were heard and the girls cheered with happiness. When her friends calmed down, Twilight looked in her book about iron, and saw that in order to get iron ingots (which are used for crafting), she needs to smelt them in a furnace. There was also a smudged out sentance in the information. She told her friends about the iron and about cooking it, and soon the iron was being smelted. While Twilight and her friends were smelting the iron, Spike went on ahead and made them new swords out of cobblestone. He dropped a sword nearby each of them and told them to give over the wooden ones. Twilight was wondering what he was doing with the swords, but decided to let him do what he has to do with them.
It took a couple of minutes, but the iron was done smelting. The girls grabbed the iron they made, and each heard a loud ding signaling they found yet another Achievement. All of them were very happy that they found two Achievements within minutes of coming home. Twilight went on ahead and did some farming for all of them, and they realized that they are now learning how to survive on their own.