//------------------------------// // We Need to Go Deeper // Story: Ponies in Minecraft // by yolky206 //------------------------------// Another day passed in the world of Minecraft, and once again Twilight wanted to gather her friends up to do something. She was busy researching Diamonds, and came across something very interesting. The article said that a Diamond Pickaxe could be used to make a Portal with a blackish rock known as Obsidian. She didn't know where the portal would go, but she decided that maybe it was a ticket back to Equestria! She looked up how to find Obsidian, and realized it was hard work. The article said that she had to take a bucket full of water and dump it on top of some Lava. "Well, that sounds hazardous." Twilight said out loud. "What sounds hazardous?" She heard Rarity ask from behind her. "Oh!" Twilight said. "Hello Rarity! I was just reading about what you could do with a Diamond pickaxe, and it says you can collect Obsidian with it. The Obsidian can then be used to make a Portal, but I don't know where it could lead to. But the Obsidian itself is hard to get because you need a bucket of water and some Lava. You then pour the water on top of the Lava and mine the rock. But it says her 'Don't mine the block you're standing on!' in all capital letters." "Well, that does sound like quite an adventure." Rarity told her. "We might just be in for another challenge, but I don't think all of us can go." "Why is that?" Asked Twilight, who was confused at what Rarity said. "Rainbow is still traumatized after her death, Pinkie won't want to be sad if another one of us dies, and Fluttershy is starting to get much more frightened." Rarity explained. "Also, I don't want to go back down there due to the high danger, and I don't think Spike will want to go either. I'm not certain about Applejack's opinion, but you might have to go alone darling." Twilight thought about that for a second. 'What Rarity said makes sense, and I can certainly go alone. But my friends might not want to go back down to the caves at all if they don't go again. I'll ask Applejack if she wants to go, then I'll see what I can do.' "Well, I guess I'll go see if Applejack will come." She told Rarity. "If she doesn't want to go I'll go collect some obsidian myself, and I'll be careful enough so I won't die." Twilight saw Rarity nod and said her goodbyes. She then went to the farming area of their home to search for Applejack. She didn't have to look far, because Applejack was already coming for her after Rarity quickly said what was going on. Twilight ran for her friend and asked her if she would like to go with her down to find obsidian. "Ahm sorry Twilight." Applejack told her. "Ah have to help the others wit' gettin' back on track in this world. If we let em' stay sad they won't be gettin' out anytime soon." Twilight sadly agreed with her friend and walked into the house. Rainbow recently made some chests to store their items in, and Twilight organized them. She walked over to the ore chest and grabbed three Diamonds. She them levitated two sticks out of the wood chest and placed them on the crafting table. She put the Diamonds in the correct places and soon crafted a Diamond pickaxe. She levitated the rare tool and placed it carefully in her saddlebags. Twilight replenished her food supply and torches along with making and collecting a bucket. She then went to each of her friends and said where she was going, how dangerous it was, and a quick farewell. She headed out the front door and started on the journey. ------------- Twilight finally reached the cave that she and her friends went through multiple times. She already filled her bucket with water from a nearby water source, and was completely prepared to go in. Her journey was lit by the flames of the torches, and no Mobs came out of the few shadows to haunt her. She quickly went down the paths to where Fluttershy burned herself, knowing that there was Lava she could use. Twilight ran and jumped over the blocks to quickly get there, and was soon met by the burning light of the Lava pool. She took a deep breath and poured the water over the Lava. She gasped in amazement as the water formed a new source block and quickly spread on top of the burning liquid. Underneath the water black rocks formed, and she recognized them as obsidian. However, while the water turned Lava into obsidian, that made lots of the light fade away. Twilight was too busy turning all the hot liquid into the black rock to notice that Zombies started spawning in behind her. She only realized that it was getting darker when one of the Zombies groaned behind her while making padding sounds from the stone. 'A Zombie is behind me, isn't it...' She thought to her self before pulling out her sword. She gulped and turned around to face a small crowd of Zombies. Twilight screamed in fright before charging up a quick Teleportation spell. She held a hard grip on her stone sword with her magic as the spell activated. She dissapeared from the Mobs' sight, who where very confused about the whole thing. Twilight felt her magic fade away once the spell was complete. She opened her purple eyes and looked around where she teleported herself. She was still in the caves, but she was closer to the surface. 'I guess under my panic I teleported to the entrance of the caves.' She thought. She turned back around to the tunnels and sighed. 'I'm going to have to go back in there and fight. Maybe then I won't get so scared.' After placing her sword back in her saddlebags she recontinued her journey to get the obsidian. Twilight finally made it back to the now-obsidian Lava pool, but the Mobs were no longer there. She breathed a sigh of relief and placed some torches to light up the darkness. She pulled out her Diamond pickaxe and trotted over to the obsidian. She levitated her pickaxe high in the air and swung it down, hard. To Twilight's surprise, the obsidian barely had a scratch on it. She tried again, and once again barely made a dent. Getting frustrated, she flipped open her book and re-read the passage about Diamond pickaxes. It said that a Diamond pickaxe could break obsidian, but it took a lot of strengh and time. Twilight put her book back and levitated her pickaxe again. This time, she tried hitting the black block with her pickaxe really fast. She did that for a few seconds, and heard the sound of blocks breaking. She looked at the block she was mining and saw that it had been destroyed. She cheered with glee and jumped in the air with happiness. Twilight picked up the strong block and continued to collect more. ------------- Twilight was happily trotting out of the caves with at least three stacks of sixty four obsidian blocks. She didn't even notice how long she'd been gone until she stepped out of the cave entrance. She got to see the square sun rising up from the East, bringing the moon down and the dawn out. Twilight gasped in surprise and ran to the house. 'I didn't think I'd be gone that long!' She thought. 'I have to get back to the house. These blocks might be our way out!' Twilight thought of her home in Ponyville, and that made her run harder. Only one thing stopped her though. She saw a Skeleton hiding under the shade of a tree, with a chicken right in front of her. The Skeleton looked right at her, and fired a weak arrow. The arrow pierced the chicken, causing it to die right in front of Twilight. Two feathers and what looked like raw chicken dropped from the red corpse, and she picked up the feathers. 'These look like quills, oh wait. I have to write to Princess Celestia! I have to tell her that we're okay before something bad happens!' She quickly pulled out her sword and killed the Skeleton, causing it to drop a bone and an arrow. She picked up the items and continued running to the house. Twilight ran toward a pond, which is where she stopped. She saw something very strange in front of her that was on the ground. A blue-bodied, square thing with tentacles was somehow getting hurt on the land outside of the water. She flipped open her book and looked at the information on 'squids'. Apparently they didn't do much, except they would die on land if given enought time. 'Well, it looks like I can't do anything to help the poor squid.' Twilight thought. She watched the Mob fade away after it died, and it dropped three ink sacs. She picked them up and placed them in her saddlebags, before realizing that she could start writing letters now. She thought about what she could tell the Princess, andran home while thinking about her success. Twilight arrived home without any more interuptions. All of her friends were waiting for her inside, and she quickly greeted them. She gave the obsidian over to Rarity so she could help the others to create a portal. She showed them the frame design to create the portal, but told Spike to stay with her. "But why Twilight?" Spike asked. "I want to help the others!" "Spike, I think we can contact the Princess now." She told him. "I have paper, feathers to be used as quills, and some ink. I need you to write a letter and send it that says how we're surviving and that we might be able to get home soon. We'll go through the portal first, then send the letter." "TWILIGHT!" She heard Pinkie yell. "THE PORTAL NEEDS TO BE ACTIVATED BY SOMETHING!" "Okay!" She called back. "I'm coming over! Come on Spike, let's go see what our friends need." Twilight walked over to where her friends were setting up the portal. Rarity was hovering the book in front of her while trying to explain something to Applejack. Pinkie was jumping around the tall portal frame, doing whatever Pinkie does. The frame itself was a rectangle with five blocks going up, three blocks going sideways while connecting to the five blocks, and then three blocks connecting the top and bottom on the opposite side of the five blocks. Fluttershy and Rainbow were looking for something, but Twilight didn't know what. She waved to Rarity, who looked up and called her over. "Twilight dear, it appears the portal needs to be lit on fire." Rarity explained to her. "I'm afraid that we don't have any fire spells, so we've been looking through this book to see if anything can make fire." "Well let me see." Twilight said. "I might be able to find something." Twilight grabbed the book with her magic and began flipping through it. One page stood out, and it was the iron ingot page. Under crafting recipies, there was something called 'flint and steel' that was supposed to allow things to catch on fire. "Here." She said, pointing to the tool's article. "If we can craft the flint and steel, we can light the portal and get through. But we need something called flint, and I'm not certain if we have anything like that." "Actually, ah think that ah found some flint while diggin' through some gravel." Applejack told Twilight. "Ah'll go inside and get it." Twilight watched her friend run off toward the house. She looked up at the sky, and the sun was already reaching the peak of noon. She wondered a bit on how Equestria was doing, and how well Celestia was handling things with her gone. While she was thinking, Applejack came running up with a gray item in her mouth. Twilight noticed her friend was having some trouble with it, so she lifted the item out of her mouth and levitated it close to her. "Thank ya Twilight." Applejack said to her. "But ah know this here's the flint ya need. Ah even have some iron ingots in mah saddlebags." Twilight thanked her friend and levitated the two items closer to her. "According to the recipie, the iron and the flint need to be placed diagonally from each other." She spoke. She then used her mini crafting table and placed them exactly like it showed in the picture. Pretty soon the flint and steel was created, and Twilight warned all of them to be careful with it. She gathered her friends around to watch as she lit the portal. A click sound was heard when she used the fire tool on the obsidian frame. Instead of a fire being lit on the rock, a purple swirly pattern was inside of the frame. Strange noises could be heard from inside of it, and purple sparks were flying off the portal. "Well, shall we go in?" Twilight asked her friends. All of them nodded and followed her into the portal. ------------- Twilight heard a ding as she went through the portal. She couldn't hear the normal noises of her world, and felt really hot. The temperature was fairly high, like she was near a lot of Lava or fire. She opened her eyes, and the first thing she noticed were that her friends were standing next to her with their mouths wide open. Twilight looked at what they were staring at, and discovered that they never went back to Equestria. The world around her was still Minecraft, but Lava was flowing from the red roof. Large white creatures were floating around, and fire was staying lit on red rock. She could see brown sand with Zombie-like creatures walking slowly on them. Lava was all she could see when she looked down, and she felt fear run through her veins. She was too shocked to speak, and instead watched the horrifying land unfurl around her.