Minecraft Story Mode: Behind the Scenes

Chapter 3: Lights

"Do you see him anywhere?," asked Petra, scanning around the Endercon festival. Alex and Jesse stopped next to her. "We lost him!," groaned Jesse. "Then we'll just have to find him again," said Petra. "Go!" The three of them ran in different directions. Alex ended up in the middle of a marketplace and was about to start her search when she felt a hand grab her arm and pull her between two stalls. Alex barely let out a shriek before she felt another hand cover her mouth. "Shut up, you bitch," growled Thomas' voice. "Shut up."

Thomas spun her around, grabbed the front of her shirt, and roughly shoved her against the wall. Annie stood next to him, her face covered with nasty looking bruises. Thomas smiled at Alex wickedly and pushed her against the wall. "Better say your prayers, freak," he snarled, droplets of spit flying into her face. "That big guy isn't here to save you anymore."

Alex looked into Annie's eyes, pleading for her to help her, but she just turned around. Thomas slammed her into the wall. "Look at me when I'm talking to you!" Tearing up, Alex turned her head to look into his evil, cruel, remorseless eyes. "You've got some nerve, huh? It all makes sense now! You teamed up with those losers and stabbed your own team in the back. You helped them build that enderman." Alex shook her head. "Thomas, listen to yourself!," she cried. "I couldn't have helped them. I was building the cannon with you guys."

"Liar!," he screamed, forgetting he was supposed to be quiet. "And I'm gonna make sure you never lie again." He took something out of his coat. "Recognize this?"

Alex's eyes widened. It was the blade of the wooden sword that Jesse used against those zombies before it broke. "W-w-what are you going to do with it?."

Thomas smiled. It was the smile of a madman. Without a word, he lifted her shirt up, held the wooden blade in his hand...and suddenly fell to his knees. "I can't do it!," he wailed. "I'm sorry, I just can't!" Numerous groans could be heard. "Cut, cut, cut!," groaned Stevack, rubbing his forehead tiredly. "All of you, get out of there!" Thomas, Alex, Annie, and a cameraman walked out of the alley. "Thomas, this is the fourth time I had to stop the scene," sighed the director. "It's very simple. Just pretend you're stabbing her with that wooden blade."

"I-I just can't," Thomas sighed. "It's so...needlessly bloody and violent. Can't my character do something else, like...I don't know...send her to bed with no food?" "Thomas, we already talked about this," Stevack sighed. "Your character is supposed to be an unhinged and psychotic man who's on the verge of falling into total insanity. Sending Alex to bed with no food wouldn't make sense in that context. The audience would be rightfully confused." "Ugh, for god's sake, Thomas, look!," groaned Alex, reaching under her shirt and pulling out a plastic bag filled with red liquid. "This isn't even real blood. It's fake! You're not literally cutting my stomach open, you imbecile!" "Hey, that's my brother you're talking about!," Annie snapped.

"Alex, stop antagonizing the other actors," sighed Stevack. "And Thomas, man up and grow a pair. You agreed to this role, and you have to stick with it, understand?" He waved his hands in the air erratically. "You know what, let's just take five. We'll get back to this scene later." Everyone sighed in relief and began doing their own business while the cameramen went to recharge their cameras and the janitors started cleaning up the mess left behind by the dozens of extras who milled around in the so-called Endercon festival, a fictional event that was made up solely for this movie. Thomas and Annie went to take a break, with Annie glaring at Alex as they went. Alex ignored her and went into a wooden booth to get her makeup done.

"Well...this is running along smoothly," Jesse snarked, crossing his arms. "Yeah...," said Petra, standing right next to him. "This isn't really going according to plan." After going through numerous rehearsals inside the warehouse, Stevack finally decided that they were ready to start filming the movie. The entire cast, as well as the cameramen, extras, sound producers, and so on, traveled to a remote part of the woods where the first part of the film was going to take place. At first, things went off rather smoothly. The special effects people did a great job using CGI to put in the hostile mobs in some scenes. They weren't stupid enough to use real mobs, after all. Things started going downhill, however, when Thomas came into the picture. First, he had to get over the fact that he was playing as his own sister's boyfriend, which ended up being incredibly awkward for both of them. After that, he had trouble acting cruel, even though it was really just that: acting. He knew that none of the scenes where he had to abuse the other characters were real, but that didn't make the experience any less unpleasant.