(Mikey)

"So this is the Hub?" I asked, my eyes shining.

"Yep! Pretty cool right?" John said, placing his hands on his hips.

"Ok so we need to meet up with Couriway and he said that he'll be next to his 1,000 speedrun server portal in thirty minutes," Jack said, shielding his eyes from the sun.

There were a bunch of players hanging around, some of them were floating around with a computer or phone floating near to their face.

According to John, those are viewers. They don't play in the same world as we do but they can interact with one another and other players.

I might have been a viewer once but I don't remember.

"Ok...so where's Couriway's portal?" Jack asked suddenly.

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"God fricking damn it," I hissed.

My first time in the Hub and we're already lost.

"Pfft we're not lost. Erm it's this way," John said and walked right into a viewer with black hair and two hair antennas.

"Watch it," she whispered.

"Sorry," John apologized and the viewer floated away.

"I think it's this way actually," Jack said and pointed in the opposite direction where John was heading.

John smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand.

"Shoot you're right," he said.

So we went in that direction, avoiding other player and viewers.

"I think we're early," John noted.

"Well no sh*t. Couriway said thirty minutes, this took like ten minutes," Jack pointed out.

"Now let's not fight about it," I said.

And so, we just sat there waiting for Couriway.

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"Ok he is taking forever," John groaned.

"Dude! It's been like," I looked around for a clock, "5 minutes! Be patient!"

"I mean Mikey has a point. Learn some patience," Jack said.

"Says the one who didn't even bother to check if you can break the healing machine without it disappearing," John snapped.

"OK DUDE!" Jack shouted.

The two of them began to argue.

Me, being fed up with those two, decided to wander away.

I wanted to explore the Hub more and I didn't want to listen to those two argue about things.

"F************CK!" A black haired boy shouted as he ran over to me and hid behind me.

"What the-," I said and I saw a whole horde of players and they did not look happy.

"Where is he?!" One of them roared.

"B*tch does it look like I know!" One of them shouted.

"Guys, let's just calm down," another one said.

"QUIET BILL!" His two companions yelled at him.

They left.

"Oh thank god. Thanks mate, I needed that," the boy said.

"What the heck was that?!" I shouted at him.

"What! You basically saved my life, no need to yell at me," the boy cringed.

"How come there was a whole horde of players chasing after you and is that a zombie piglin baby in your arms?" I asked.

The boy looked down at his arms where a zombie piglin baby stared at him.

"Yes...but he's not harmful (even if one of his adopted dads does allegedly own nukes)," the boy muttered.

"Nukes?!" I cried but the boy shushed me.

"Ok I need to get back to my friends. We separated and I'm lost. Also I don't want his parents to worry about him too much," the boy explained.

"Ah geez fine! I'll help you find them," I said.

"Well I didn't really asked for your help but thanks! I appreciate it," the boy said.

He shifted the piglin to one arm before holding out the other one.

"I'm Eryn and this is Micheal," he said.

"My name is also Micheal but most people call me Mikey," I said, taking his hand and we shook on it.

Eryn held Micheal out to me.

"Can you hold him please? My arms are getting tired," he asked.

"Yeah sure," I took Micheal from him and held him comfortably in my arms.

"Now where should we start?" Eryn asked.

"You don't have a plan on where to start?" I asked, shocked.

"Well yes I do but I don't want to start there," he explained.

"Start where?" I asked.

Eryn opened his mouth to speak but got interrupted.

"Mikey! There you are! Don't go wandering off, you're still new to the Hub and who the hell are these two?" John jogged up to me.

"Oh...well this is Eryn and this is Micheal. Eryn here, got separated from his friends and is trying to get back to them but a whole horde of players were chasing him," I explained.

"Wait wait wait. You managed to piss off a whole horde of players?! How do you do that?" Jack asked.

Eryn shrugged.

"I have no idea!" He replied.

"We were supposed to be waiting for Couriway and not babysit two kids," John said.

"Who says we can't do both? Look there is Couriway right now," I said and pointed to a brown haired man.

"Hey! We're over here!" I shouted and waved at him.

Couriway walked up to us.

"Ok I'm here. I have many questions now," Couriway said and looked at Eryn and Micheal.

"Ok Mikey here decided to help...what was your name again?" Jack asked, turning to Eryn.

"Eryn," Eryn replied.

"Yeah Eryn. To help him with finding his friends and somehow, someway, Eryn decided to piss off a whole horde of players so finding his friends is going to be a grueling task," Jack explained.

"So we're going on a rescue mission basically?" Couriway asked.

"No/Yes," Jack and I said. We looked at each other in confusion.

"Yes," Eryn said quickly and Micheal oinked in agreement.

"Ok count me in!" Couriway said, happily.

"Fine! Ok so where did you last saw your friends?" John turned right face Eryn.