Minecraft: The Marvelous Adventures of Steve: The Invasion Trilogy

I Came to Mine

Same woke in a cold sweat. He felt as if he'd been running for hours like he had been doing for days. That night was the first night that he could get a content night's worth of sleep. Cramped and feeling weak, he tried to climb downstairs, but he tripped on the last two steps and fell.

"Whoa, Sam, are you alright?"

Steve was sitting at the table eating breakfast when he heard something at the stairs. He got up and looked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's strange. I feel like I haven't eaten in forever."

He put his hand on his forehead to check his health. If he was burning up, that meant his body's health was low.

"Only a few hearts left? What did I do in my sleep?"

Steve helped Sam up.

"I don't know. I didn't wake up at all last night. I was out."

"I need some food."

Steve handed him some bread, which he ate quickly.

"That was really strange," Sam said.

"Do you feel like you can get up and around?"

"I do, now. Must've been a weird phase or something."

"We're mining today," Steve said. "Hope you're ready to get your hands extra dirty today."

Steve opened his chest, hoping he missed seeing a spare iron pickax somewhere deep inside.

"You still got you pickax?"

"Yeah. You lost yours in the cave-in?"

"Seems that way. It's alright. It was made of stone, anyway. Could I borrow that back until we can make another one?"

"Sure," Sam said. "I wouldn't know where to look, anyways."

Sam passed the pickax to Steve.

"I think I saw your mine yesterday?"

"The one behind the house? Yeah. It's nothing fancy, but I did manage to make a minecart."

They went outside through the double iron doors. Sam looked at the track.

"Two minecarts," Sam corrected. "What's with the furnace?"

"Oh! I saw this in a mining manual. Furnaces can power minecarts with coal. I already had way too much coal than I knew what to do with, so I save the extra for power. It also helps to have a torch or two."

"Cool. Let's roll!"

Sam hopped into the middle. It was a little dusty, but it was tolerable. Steve put some coal into the furnace from the chest in the front cart. Almost immediately, smoke poured out, and the carts shifted on the track. He quickly hopped into the front. The breeze picked up with the speed. Sam watched the top of the cave go over and disappear behind them. It went from bright to sudden dark with torches lining the wall.

The tunnel wasn't a straight tunnel. Steve could see it dip down.

"Better hold on!" He said.

Sam gripped the front of the minecart. When the track dipped, so did his stomach. His heart jumped into his throat.

"Whoa!" was all he could say.

Steve looked back at Sam's surprised face and laughed. He felt the same way the first time he made the track do that. They whizzed by a cave with a spider crawling on the walls. They went by too fast for it to react. The track bottomed out, and they rolled down the narrow tunnel.