Sweetie Belle's mouth gaped open.
"Wh... Wha... But..."
"What are you doing here?!" exclaimed Button, saying what she was too shocked to do.
"Heyyyy!" muttered the colt. "You two don't seem very happy to see me ya know... I mean, have you got any idea what I went through to find you guys?!"
"Of course we're glad to see you Rumble! But it's just..." started Sweetie Belle, questions overflowing her mouth.
"... you do know you're stuck here as well right?" finished Button with a sad frown.
"Nah don't worry! I know what recipe you need to craft our way out. But can we go somewhere cosier please? I'm freezing!" Rumble sneezed.
"Uh... Sure. We'll get you to our place. Follow us!"
Button was the first to come out and he shook his head to make the last of sleep disappear.
There was a crafting recipe all this time?!
"Did you run into some monsters on your way here?" asked Sweetie Belle curiously while they exited the cave and the waterfall, gladly enjoying the warm sun.
"No. But... isn't the game in peaceful mode??!" Rumbled asked, surprised.
"Yeah that would have been so much easier!" snorted the white filly.
They continued through the trees when Button stopped walking.
"Shhhh!" he suddenly muttered, looking in the distance.
Chaser growled and Diamond hissed.
Helper just... just stood there being a chicken.
"Zombies..." murmured Sweetie Belle, a revolting stench floating in the air.
She tried to move another hoof but it got tangled in some sticky white substance.
"Aaaaand spiders..."
Rumbled heard a low, guttural growl.
He gulped and shivered.
"Hey guys...? Uh... We should probably run!" He nervously looked around.
"No time for that. You get under the cover of the trees..."
Rumble's eyes widened. "You're gonna fight those things?!"
A small chuckle came out of Button's mouth. "How do you think we've survived all this time?"
Rumble didn't answer and ducked for the safe cover of the trees.
His friends were... scary.
He hated to admit it but... they had changed in such a way! It was amazing really.
Sweetie Belle's sword appeared in her hooves and Button loaded his bow.
Their expressions were fierce and determined.
Without warning, Button fired in the distance, his left ear twitching.
The dying sound of a spider was heard.
A zombie walked over to Sweetie Belle only to be killed in one whip of her sword.
Her cold hearted expression was impressing.
Rumble breathed out. "She's kinda cool like that!"
Button fired a few more times but a spider approached him with incredible speed.
A mandible sliced through his leg and he rolled to the side.
Rumble gasped at the size of the spider.
Fear made him shiver and he considered running away before remembering he wouldn't be safe.
But Button got up, ignoring the pain and jumped on the spider, plunging his shiny sword through its back.
Sweetie Belle helped him get up and agilely fired one last arrow at a zombie before looking over to where Rumble was hiding.
"You okay?" she smiled, holding out a hoof.
Rumble looked down and shook himself to wash off the fear before accepting her hoof.
"That was pretty neat!" he exclaimed.
But a gasp came out of his mouth when he saw Button's leg.
It was a bloody mess.
Torn up flesh was slowly regenerating and the white of the bone had just disappeared.
A puddle of blood was now lying on the floor.
Rumble felt dizzy and turned to throw up. How did he manage to jump on that spider and then fight it with such a wound?!
"We... We gotta get outta here!" he murmured.
Sweetie Belle patted his back. "That's what we've been telling each other for the past week dude."
Rumble frowned. "You mean for the past year right?"
A sigh came to their ears and they turned to see that Button has painfully got up.
"We forgot that time works differently here."
Sweetie rushed to his side and gently nuzzled him with affection.
A blush came to Button's cheeks and his first reaction was to back away in front of the curious glare of his friend.
Sweetie Belle widened her eyes before hardening up.
"That," she harshly whispered, "just cost you dinner."
Button whimpered and pathetically followed her through the forest.
Rumble squinted his eyes at their evident complicity.
A pang of... was it jealousy...? Shot through his heart and he quickly caught up to them.
"You guys must have been so amazed when you first teleported..." he chuckled. "Just to see the look on your faces would have been hilarious!"
Button gave an amused growl and pushed a hissing red snake away.
"Wasn't so funny the first time we got hurt..."
Rumble decided to close his mouth for now.
Instead, his mind wondered on the fauna and flora of the minecraft world.
Animal cries and squeals were echoing through the whole jungle, mixing with the sound of their hoof steps.
Upon closer inspection, Rumble could see cubic pebbles skidding along as they moved the grass and earth.
The detail is incredible! It kinda hurts the eyes to see everything pixelated. Plus, this world is already scary during the day... I don't want to experience it at night!
His gaze shifted and he looked at his two friends in front of him.
"It was a reflexe!" was muttering Button.
"I would never do that to you!" replied Sweetie Belle through her gritted teeth.
Chaser seemed to be laughing, a huge spider leg in his mouth.
Diamond hissed at it and Chaser shook it around.
Rumble looked back at the huge trees around them.
The lighting of the sun was extremely well done as it gently heated them all up, passing through the leaves.
They all arrived in a plain and Rumble spotted a small wooden house in the distance.
"How did I not notice that?!" he laughed.
"Sweetie Belle decorated it. I just did the blueprints."
"And where did you draw them?!" mocked Rumble.
"On a bloody pumpkin from one of those freaking mods..." Button rolled his eyes and spotted a blue bird flying through the sky. "At least we won't run out of food..."
"Yeah..." nervously chuckled Rumble. "About the mods... I was the one to install them..."
Sweetie Belle lifted her eyebrows. "Why would you do that?! Did you have access to Button's computer?! Why didn't you say anything?! Hey Button..." she leaned towards the brown colt and suspiciously eyed out Rumble. "His hair style looks like GameSpark's one... Do you think he could be his son?"
Rumble jumped at all the accusations. "Whoa whoa there!" he quickly said, lifting his hooves up in a defensive position. "Caaaaaalm down! Put. the sword. down."
Sweetie Belle hid it in her inventory.
"I said I'd explain everything once I was safe and at your house!" continued the foal.
"You can explain it right now! There's no danger..." grumbled Sweetie Belle.
Rumble opened his mouth to protest but what came out was a very unmanly scream when a mole popped it's head out of the ground just in front of his hooves.
Chaser barked and Diamond gave what seemed to be an amused meow.
Sweetie rolled her eyes and sliced through the black mole that disappeared. "We'll just go back to the house in case this big baby passes out when he'll see a butterfly."