Boy and His Box: The Lucky Block

by Jake Witt


ACT 1 PART 1

"Joooooosh! Ugh... I think I'm gonna be sick!"

"I don't know who this 'Josh' is, but don't spew on me!" came Josh's voice to my left.

"I'm serious, I think I had one too many chocolates!"

"You don't look soaked..."

"What does that have to do with anything?!"

"The only chocolate around here is milk falling from cotton candy clouds, dude."

My eyes shot open, the ground was pink and the sky was plaid with trees from Dr. Seuss swaying around and tiny lion things with wings buzzed around. "Hey, what's going on?!"

"You found solid cocoa and I want some!" came Josh's voice again. I looked down to my left, seeing a white pony with box hooves, flame styled mane, blue eyes, and wearing gold Minecraft armor. His muzzle scrunched up as he looked me over, "I'm loco, give me cocoa!"

To say I was surprised was an understatement and my reaction was a bit... ahem... loud.

I'm screaming at a life size, living version of my brother's pony OC while staring at my missing feet and hanging upside down in a cloud made of cotton candy as cat-bugs with stingers are fighting too close to my face.

"Will you stop-"

"AHHHH!"

"Will you-"

"AHHHH!"

"-please-"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"-stop-"

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"-SCREAMING! STOP SCREAMING! STOP IT!"

"How are you alive? Where am I? How is cotton candy hovering and spewing chocolate rain?!"

"How rude, I don't know, and you just started a musical."

Chocolate reign!
Some stay while I give the pain!
Chocolate reign!
A baby unicorn will fly in some tin!

Chocolate reign!
School book burn by my rule again!
Chocolate rain!
The taste makes you wonder where its been!

Chocolate reign!
Make me stone and say the land is dry!
Chocolate reign!
Stand back and watch the bunnies fly!

Chocolate reign!
Forecast be falling yesterday.
Chocolate reign!
Tia's reign in the past will stay!

Chocolate reign!
Raise your cottage off the ground!
Chocolate reign!
Turn it upsidedown and all around!

Chocolate reign!
Chaos makes the street cross me!
Chocolate reign!
Its for fun since I'm free!

The music ended just as another being appeared: the abomination that my brother won't stop fawning over, voiced by John DeLancie. He has a long serpentine body, a lion paw, eagle claw, a goat leg, dragon tail with a pink tuff on the end, mismatched yellow and red eyes, an antler and a ram horn, a single fang poked out... he's essentially what you envision the 'Lord of Chaos'.

"Well, think can't do!" he exclaimed. With a snap of his talon...

I woke up, getting my head stuck under the cotton candy cloud as it rained on me.

"Uh... hello? New slave? Arise!" A mass of flesh fell from the cloud as Box began to scream, me joining when I saw it had my face, but distorted.

"hmm?" Discord, the beast I mention, looked under the cloud. "That's odd." He snapped his talon...

I woke up, my face in the cotton candy cloud. I could hear some audible screams as I squirmed.

"Impossible!" he shouted. The cloud suddenly vanished as I landed on a small downed tree... with my screaming face on the bark. "You just stay symmetrical and reincarnate yourself from thin air! Meh. Slavery is for ponies, I suppose."

I felt something pull me to my feet by my shirt as Box shoved my ax in my hands... it was real, heavy, and shining.

I turned to see Box attempt to fight Discord, giving punches to his face yet they never met. He was tossed off and I wasn't sure if I could-

"You can't die! Go for him!"

With that logic, I rushed for him as I knew that he was a villain that would keep slaves. That didn't bode well with me so now I have my reason to jump him. Now, how do I learn to fight within the moment I'm within beating range?

The music in my head came out for all to hear as the power of John Cena memes took me over and I tossed my ax at his face. It hit. Discord plucked it out, tossing it back... though I actually caught it without second thought. I shook my hand, picturing the TNT block that formed in my hand.

You know, finding that ability by shaking my hand makes as much sense as Eren Jeager biting his hand to grow.

The TNT blew up near Discord, who held a baseball bat, but looked ready for several other sports. He didn't need three strikes to start a fight with the pitcher; the beast lunged at me, followed by sudden twitch in my hand that allowed me to stab him with a diamond hoe and finish the job with a gold sword that took its place as I hacked and slashed him.

...but for some reason, I could only hold two tools and weapons if one of them was my ax. If I tried a hoe-sword combo, my left hand would go numb and would drop what it was holding... leading the tool to shrink and phase into me. I will figure out how later, because I'm currently being man handled by a hand that came out of my shadow.

Grannycord pointed an old claw at me, fixing its glasses,, "Well, I was expecting something interesting, but you blew it kid." Discord teleports away as the shadow arm gains vine-like appendages rolling around, taking selfies. Their phones grew tentacles as the shadow faces began laughing with... no clue if they're smoking or sticking their tongues out.

"Glow stone!" Again, I somehow knew how to use my new powers to toss a glow stone block, returning my shadow to normal.


"Well that sucked."

Box turns his head, his brows lower than his ears, "No kidding! We can't fight that guy!"

I moved my arm, stopping him. "Maybe we don't have to."

I pointed over to a scene where two horses with wings and long horns floated with gems circling them.

Box looked up, "What're we doin'?! They need help!"

"You're probably right, but we can't jump him." After dropping a block and resting a fist on my chin, an idea formed. "Hey, they will need a distraction or two."

"Like what?"

I looked to my block, realizing a coincidence. It wasn't just stone!


Discord sat on a black throne in the middle of an odd town, eating black seeds and looking amused. I wasn't sure if villains here monologue or not, but he seemed quiet and smug.

His attention was turned to us as I tried to fire an arrow at him from my piston, suddenly hitting Box instead. He watched on as Box began to beat me and began to stifle a giggle. His giggle evolved in loud laughter as a rainbow arched overhead, turning him to stone.

"What is his jest, sister?" the navy pony asked her taller, white companion.

"Not the slightest clue." she turned her head, watching the world return to normal in a blinding light. They happened to spot us while I was kicked Box off me and tossed random blocks at him. "...Perhaps we found the source."