Steve's Point of View

Steve was driving the truck again. In the back of the truck, Tommy and Dee both sat in shock. This was new for Tommy. He was usually tough. But after Cupcake had died, he had gone into shock.

Steve was exhausted. He had been driving for another entire day, with no breaks. According to the map, they were in Sector 23. One more Sector to go, and they would be in Creektown.

Sector 23 was a mushroom biome. Steve saw giant mushrooms everywhere. He also saw Mooshrooms grazing on the grey grass.

They had no food left. All their rations were gone. But they could get mushroom stew from the Mooshrooms.

Steve stopped the truck. He poked his head into the back, where Tommy and Dee were still sitting quietly.

"Hey guys? I'm gonna go get some food. You can stay here," Steve said.

They didn't reply. Steve knew they had heard him though. He sighed and left the truck.

Steve used a crafting table to make a few bowls. Then he walked up to a Mooshroom and started milking it.

Milking Mooshrooms was weird. They gave mushroom stew instead of milk. Steve remembered learning about Mooshrooms from school.

Sadly, he couldn't remember which school, or his teachers, or his classmates.

He really needed his memories back.

Steve hoped it was possible to get them back. If he couldn't get them back, he didn't know what he would do. He wanted to remember everything.

He finished making one bowl of mushroom stew. He started milking the Mooshroom again, trying to get another bowl.

His mind wandered while he did this. It was pretty boring, but he had to milk the Mooshroom for food.

After awhile, he looked up, still milking the Mooshroom.

A Creeper was staring at him from two blocks away.

Steve gapsed and crab walked backwards. The Creeper didn't move.

It didn't have a helmet. It didn't have glowing red eyes. It was just a normal Creeper.

It moved closer to Steve.

He got up and brandished his iron sword in defense. When he pulled out the sword, the Creeper stopped.

What? Steve thought. A normal Creeper would've kept walking towards him. Right?

Steve put away the sword. The Creeper took one step closer, then stopped.

Steve and the Creeper stared at each other.

"You're not attacking me..." Steve said.

The Creeper hissed, but didn't flash white or grow bigger.

This was really weird.

Suddenly, flashbacks started going through Steve's mind.

The Spiders attacking the Mojang Skeletons in the ravine.

Good Spider saving Steve from Mojang Spiders in the jungle temple.

The Slimes trying to escape Mojang in the swamp.

The Nether monsters trapped by Mojang, then attacking Mojang when Steve and Jay saved them.

(If he knew about it, he would also see Jay's Nether battle from last chapter.)

And this Creeper, not hurting him.

Could it be?

Were the monsters on their side now?

Steve reached out and patted the Creeper on the head. It didn't move.

"This is amazing," Steve said aloud.

Suddenly, the Creeper darted away.

"Was it something I said?" Steve asked himself.

Suddenly, two figures jumped down from a giant mushroom.

One looked kinda like Boba Fett from Star Wars, but grey and blue. The other was a girl with black hair and green eyes. She had iron armor on.

Steve knew who they were.

Pat and Jen, from PopularMMOS.

Bounty hunters.

"OPness!" Jen shouted. "That landing was awesome!"

"Yeah it was!" Pat shouted back. "We have so much OPness!"

"Totally!" Jen yelled. Then she cleared her throat. "Anyway, you're coming with us."

"No thanks," Steve said.

Jen and Pat started laughing.

"Does he-does he really think-" Pat said between laughs.

"That he can get away!" Jen laughed too.

"Wait, where'd he go?" Pat asked.

Steve was running back to the truck.

"Tommy!" he called. "Start the truck!"

Tommy must've either snapped out of his shock or noticed the urgency in Steve's voice, because he started the truck.

"Start driving!" Steve yelled.

Tommy obliged, and started driving. Steve could hear the bounty hunters in pursuit behind him.

Steve jumped onto the truck and climbed on top of it. He looked back.

Jen had fallen in a hole. She was cursing and trying to get out while Pat cracked up next to her.

When she got out, they turned serious again. They started running for the truck.

They'll never make it, Steve thought.

Boy, was he wrong.

Pat got out a rope. He threw it like a lasso, and it caught on a part of the truck that Steve couldn't reach from the top.

Pat and Jen climbed the rope and joined Steve on the top of the truck.

"You can't escape us," Jen said. "Tie him up, Pat."

Pat got out the rope. Steve got out his iron sword.

Jen got out her iron sword too.

They started sword fighting on the top of the truck. It was pretty difficult, since the truck was moving. But they still managed.

Jen swung for his legs, and he jumped. Steve sliced at her head, but she blocked it.

Jen somehow landed a hit on Steve's armor. "OPness!" she shouted. This gave Steve a chance to knock her backwards with the hilt of his sword. She fell, but not off the truck.

Now it was Pat's turn. He put away the rope and got out his iron sword.

They started fighting, and pretty much the exact same thing happened. Pat got a hit, yelled "OPness!", then was knocked backwards by Steve.

This time, Pat fell off the truck. But he grabbed on to the bottom of it.

Jen stood back up, and they fought again. This time, she knocked his sword out of his hands. It clattered on the roof of the truck.

Steve stumbled and fell backwards. Jen stood over him.

"OPn--" she started, but the truck passed under a low hanging giant mushroom, and she hit it and fell off the truck. She knocked Pat off the truck too.

The last thing Steve heard from them was Jen cursing about falling in a hole again.

Steve, Tommy, and Dee drove away from the mushroom biome.

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~Radishologist

Update idc what day it is/16: This book didn't win the Wattys rip