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How do I craft this again part 6

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Chapter 6

Don't hit the X boxes!

I got back home around 6 pm for me and turned the game on. Awdy was busy making a iron sword and Jelli was enjoying her new slime pool I made for her.

"Okay girls I'm back." I said.

"You know what to do?" Awdy said.

"Yep I even learned something important about ponies while I Was at it.

"Oh? Like what?" Awdy asked and squeed when I gave her some sugarcane.

"All ponies love sweets most like sugarcane. It's healthy enough to eat all you want but sweet enough to be a favorite too.

She hugs me.

"Yay thank you so much my dad got rid of all the sugarcane I once ate 5 3 block stacks in on go! *She munches it shamelessly not good to deprive yourself if what you love for long after all.

"Here Jelli I got this for you." I said tossing her a potion.

"What is this for?" she asked.

"The nether is very hot and you'll start to evaporate. but if you drink that before you go in you'll be just fine." I said and tossed her slime ball her eyes glittered and she ate that.

"Kinda creepy that slimes favorite food is that but hey to each their own." I said ripping off a piece of rotten flesh and chasing it with milk.

After our snacks and Awdy dawned in a set of iron armor and me in my blue dyed team armor we set off for the nether. The way to the nether wasn't straight down like you'd think no it actually takes a portal to get through the 40 layers of bed rock covering it. The portal was guarded by the speckles without Cali with me getting in would be hard thankfully however I remembered that and pulled out our ticket in.

"Is that a fish?" Jelli said

"Phew it reeks where did you get it from anyway?" Awdy said covering her nose.

I tossed the smelly fish in front of the entrance and a speckle came over to look at it. Curious a few others did as well picking up the fish and getting rid of it. Then they heard a sound that was about to send them screaming in terror.

"Meow."

they turned around to see not one not even two but 5 ocelots and they chased the now smelly speckles around.

"Lets go." I whispered and we sneaked in after the speckles ran away.

The portal was massive it was 7 blocks high and 4 long. It was made of obsidian and had a purple portal inside.

"Ready Awdy?" I asked she was nervous.

"I can't believe it I'm going to see my father again." she nodded her head.

"Lets go." Jelli said drinking the potion and we all stepped into the portal to the nether...

Apparently Nether is a clever word for hell cause that's what we found! the temperature sky rocketed. Now I've dug around lava before it can get hot but this was a nightmare even the ground was hot!

"How can anything live here!?" Awdy said already sweating.

"Well zombies and skeletons don't get hot so that's part of it and spiders move around best in warm places." I said wiping my forehead off.

"What's that over there?" Jelly pointed out.

The nether was made out of roughly 4 blocks. Netherstone soulsand lava and glowstone. But what Jelli had pointed out was a man made structure or so it appeared.

"What is this?" Awdy said tapping the building. It gave off a strange thud almost like the ding of a bell.

"I'm not sure the wiki didn't say anything about buildings in here." I said collecting a few pieces to look over later.

"Wait I hear voices." Jelli said.

We listened closely and could hear them indeed. It sounded like screaming.

"This place is creepy lets get out of here." Awdy said.

"We need to find your dad plus this is the perfect place to destroy the diamond shovel." I stated taking it out.

"No no diamond doesn't melt in lava the only way to destroy is to use it until it breaks." Awdy said stopping me.

"With level 3 efficiency and unbreaking that's going to take awhile too." Jelli said I put it away

"Great well one thing at a time." If your dad is in here then we need to find something out of place. As odd as this is it was built without rhyme or reason so it's natural we need to look for signs of human interaction." I thought and looked around carefully then pointed up high.

"there." I pointed out.

There was a bridge of nether stone way up high leading to a deposit of glowstone.

"Someone has been mining that glowstone we need to get up there and follow the bridge back to where they live." I said and we started our climb heedless to the several sets of eyes now watching us.

We didn't get very far before we had to stop. I had a few ice blocks on me I forgot to put away and placed them. WE jumped on the blocks and reveled in the relief it brought.

"these won't last long in here so lets focus while they are still good. We've found a bridge but no other signs and my map is useless down here so we're on our own." I said.

"Hmm... well lets think then if you were stuck down here what would you do?" Awdy asked.

"Well I'd get up as high as I could away from the lava it would be cooler up there. And then I'd dig deep into the wall nether rock is almost as soft as dirt so mining it is super easy you could do that without tools. That plus it's easy to craft you can make bowls out of it too and there are plenty of mushrooms about. Our best bet is to go up high and then look for caves up there.

I brained stormed just in time the ice melted and collected in a hole we drank our fill before it evaporated and climbed up. As we did though we heard a squeal.

"What was that?" Awdy asked.

A moment later a blast came out of no where lighting the netherstone near us on fire.

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"Ghast!" I yell and duck behind cover.

"Come out! No one hides from Maggie!" The Ghast screamed and fired more fire balls at us exploding the stone around us and catching it on fire thankfully it didn't spread but we were quickly becoming trapped!

"Dig for you lives!" Awdy said using her pickax to dig into the wall. Jelli pressed against the wall and slithered into it as I pulled out the shovel and started using it.

But it was more powerful then I realized and I created a hole under me and fell right towards the Lava.

"I dno't got the hearts to survive this!" I thought and splashed down in the lava.

But there was no red screen of death there was no message of any kind. I sank down and...

"Waahh!" I yelped as I fell into a cavern filled with... water?

"What the?" I said looking around.

"Hello?"

A small voice called out and soon appeared. It was a slime pony no... wait on closer look it was actually a magma cube pony a baby one at that only 3 or so.

"Who are you?" She asked.

"I'm a Spawner. I fell into lava but I guess I didn't." I said wading out of the water.

"You look like Willy!" She said hopping in front of me.

"Willy?" I asked as she took my hand it was nice and warm like a blanket perfect on a cold winter day.

"Follow me come me my sis and mommy, willy too!" She said dragging me along.

The corridor was made of that fortress material we found but was set up like a home a player would make. In what amounts to the living room I saw the little one's entire family.

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"You were running from Maggie weren't you? Poor thing I can imagine how frightful that can be. my name is Kiki but call me Big mama this is Beth my oldest and Lil Red my baby girl." the mother smiled she was huge a little more then double Awdy's size.

Beth was a normal pony sized magma cube. She had a bored look on her face clearly life in the nether is less then exciting but not in Lil Red's case she was tiny maybe even smaller then a filly at of the same age but eager to play and explore.

"So even ponies exist in the nether and are there are more then just normal ones." I realized.

"Indeed though lately we are less welcome then before." Kiki sighed deeply.

"Why? what's going on?" I asked.

"the lava pools are shrinking and cooling down because of it." Beth said blowing part of her molten mane out of her face.

"Those big meanies are making the fortress to big it takes a lot of lava to smelt nether stone into nether bricks!" Lil red chirped.

"It's not safe for my children here anymore but there isn't a portal to the surface active right now." Kiki said sobbing steam.

"Whoa whoa whoa don't cry. Of course there is a portal Kiki." I said holding her face it was hot but it wouldn't burn me thankfully.

"A portal really!?" She gasped.

"Yes I came here to help a friend of mine." I nodded.

"You know willy? Wait that means your an outsider too!" Beth said perking up.

"Willy? Uh no but it does ring a bell. I'll help him escape too if you like." I promised.

"Ah thank goodness poor willy has been stuck in here for awhile now he's off gathering mushrooms for Maggie.

"What why?" I asked.

"If he doesn't give her enough she'll eat him she eats everything but blazes. She even hunts magma cubes... that's how I lost." Kiki started by trailed off.

"Where is willy right now?" I asked.

"He's in the fortress it's only place he can grow enough mushrooms so Maggie won't eat him it's super dangerous I'll show you the way!" Beth said latching onto me and dragged me away half sunken inside her as she slithered away.

Nether

time ????

Awdy was sobbing as Jelli tried to calm her down.

"He's gone I never should have let him come here hurt like he was!" She bawled.

"he fell in lava nothing could have survived that." Jelli said trying to calm her down.

"Something wrong?"

"Ah!" Awdy said turning around.

It was another human he sported glasses and was wearing orange pajamas.

"W-willy!" She said tackling him.

"Willy?" Jelli asked.

"Oh thank notch your okay I was so worried about you! You disappeared what happened to you you promised you'd come back you've been gone for months!" she sobbed.

"I'm okay really Maggie the ghast busted my portal so I couldn't get back I've been living with a family of magma cube ponies they took me in and taught me how to survive in here." He smiles and hugs her close.

"Don't ever leave me again Willy your all I have left." Awdy said tearing up.

"She forget about him pretty fast then again he fell in lava no point in dwelling on it." Jelli thought folding her arms.

Around this time Beth and I had arrived at the nether fort.

"hmm that's weird." Beth said.

"What?" I asked.

"Well this is where Willy grows the mushrooms but they are all gone and there is no sign of him.

"Looking for the hairy wonder again Seth?" a voice called out.

"My name is Beth you burning bimbo!" She yelled into the darkness.

A blaze pony appeared furious.

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"My name is Hot stuff you magma mess!" She growled and she and Beth started yelling at each other.

"Nothing scarier then a battle between teenage girls of any race or creature." I thought and backed up when a fire ball hit the wall behind me.

"your not going anywhere your coming with me!" She said grabbing my arm and burned me.

"Gah!" I yelped and Beth wrapped around my waist she was pretty warm herself but it felt more like a hot spring in temperature.

"Back off I found him first!" Beth said.

"Oh great now their fighting over me." I thought and grabbed one of the blaze rods Hot stuff had and she fell out of the air.

"Ah what the... what did you do!?" She yelled.

"A blaze is useless without their blaze rods." I said and she got back up.

" a normal blaze but I'm a pony blaze I only need one to fly!" she said throwing a fireball at me I swung my sword and it reflected it back at her she dodge and made a hole in the wall nearby.

"Now look what you did!" She growled.

That's when we heard a snort and looked inside. Breaking the wall had knocked out a zombie pigman and the rest looked at the 3 of us with rage in their eyes.

"uh oh..." Beth said.

"Run!" I said grabbing both of them and ran as the pigmen tore after us waving their golden swords.

The pigmen were faster than you think. I saw a cliff coming up.

"You'll never make that jump!" Beth yelled.

"let me go I can fly!" Hot stuff said trying to get free. I jumped off the cliff and we rocketed toward the magma.

"Ah you'll burn up!" Beth said as I let go of her and hot stuff who took flight but the speed of the fall couldn't let her slow down in time.

I selected a bucket of water and threw it down ward it splashed on the lava forming obsidian and I splashed into the water right before it vanished as Beth splashed into the lava unharmed and I caught hot stuff for she hit the water burning my hands and dropping my health down to 3.

"Y-you saved me." Hot stuff said.

"He saved both of us." Beth said putting her hooves on the obsidian and climbed on it.

"But I'm suppose to hunt humans w-why?" Hotstuff asked and I rubbed her head flinching from the pain but keep going.

"Because no mob deserves to die if it can be avoided. We all have lives and purposes." I said collected the water from the air and used it to make a bridge back to the shore.

"I need to get going now you take care of yourself Hotstuff." I said waving goodbye and she just floated there as the lava quickly consumed my obsidian bridge.

Beth lead me back to the house where Willy was telling Awdy about what he's been doing.

"Ah your alive!" Jelli gasped and slithered over to me.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"Y-you made it." Awdy said tearing up and hugged me.

"It's okay Awdy I lucked out there was a hidden sink hole in the lava that lead to a water spring." I said patting Awdy's back.

"You found my leap of faith then." Willy said and I looked at him as Awdy let go.

"Are you Awdy's father?" I asked and he laughed.

"Boy I wish no sorry I'm not john Smith my name is Willy I got sucked into this mess in the middle of the night and haven't found something new to wear yet." He said rubbing the back of his head.

"Why don't you just change your skin then?" I asked.

"Skin?" He said.

"Yeah skin watch." I said and shuffled through my avaliable skins before returning to my fault one.

"Hey you got a Steve Skin!" He said.

"Steve?" I asked.

"Yeah you know Steve the hero of this world you got his skin in there.

"Weird but why?" I asked.

"Who knows? If you got so many why don't you pick something more interesting then that." Jelli asked.

She had a good point. I flipped through my skins and picked one with a red jacket a black shirt a white cap black pants and light blue shoes with gold colored gloves.

"That's not bad what's the name of that one?" Willy asked.

"It didn't have one that's kinda odd..." I thought but shrugged.

"Anyway lets get out of here." Willy said.

"Wait can we go with you?" Kiki asked.

"It's not safe here anymore." Lil Red said.

"I don't got the stuff to make another house right now sorry." willy said.

"No worries you can have my place. I even got a lava pit in the basement." I said.

"Really!?" Beth said.

"No but I can put one in." I hold up my bucket and grins.

"Willy did you find my father?" Awdy remembered.

"No but I did find out he's not in the nether he's at Y 3 Z 156 and X -75" Willy said.

"Hmm... Y 3 huh?" I said.

"But that's below the lava level why is he down there!?" Awdy gasped.

"He's stuck down there. He was put down there and then lava was poured around the blocks so there is no way to dig out mushrooms and a bit of water for fish that's all he has to live on." Willy said.

"We have to save him! I'll start making some buckets we need to get rid of it!" Awdy said but Willy stopped her.

"The bottom lava layer is Obsidian 3 blocks deep that's why you dad hadn't tunneled out yet it's just to hard to get through. But I got a plan." Willy says.

"You do? Good lets get out of here hurry!" Awdy said leading them out.

The portal was deactivated.

"No not again!" Willy said checking it.

"Just relight it and lets go." I said.

"I don't have flint and steel plus a piece of the portal is missing!" willy said.

I sighed and put nether rocks around the the missing piece and dumped lava in and then splashed with water.

"Beth if you please." I said and she slammed her hooves together over the stones lighting them and the portal reactivated.

"You should never go in the nether unprepared willy." I said.

"Thanks bro and I know that all to well." Willy said patting my shoulder.

We all headed out heedless however of the pair of small red eyes.

"Ooo..." The owner of them said.

Her name was Boo goo a baby ghast and Maggie's little sister. She was about as tall as Awdy and she watches the now light up portal. Hot stuff flies up to Boo goo.

"Boo goo there you are your sister is looking for you." Hot stuff said.

"Gah bah!" Boo goo said pointing at the portal.

"What is that?" Hot stuff said sticking her hoof in the portal and watched part of it vanish.

"Wow... so this is where he went." She thought.

"I... I could follow that human to this world.

"Whee!" Goo boo said pushing Hot stuff out of the way and goes through the portal.

"Boo goo!" Hot stuff said chasing her through the portal and Maggie watched this and screamed.

"Boo goo!" She screeched and slammed against the portal shattering it as she gets through it the nether was silent once more.
Today's chapter is our quest to and from the nether. We make some new friends along the way and finally find Willy and save him too from the nether. His tory Sooper mine quest happens before and during my own so check his out when get the chance.

By now you must notice that each of the titles is a little odd. that's because they all have to do with something minecraft or mining related. Today's title is a reference to the Mr. Driller games where if you hit the brown X boxes you lose both time and your air supply busting through them.
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