Outbreak

Welcome to The Steve Saga

Day 28

Sabre's P.O.V.

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I quickly topple onto the grass and let out a groan of pain.  I guess traveling to another dimension has made me nauseous, because my surroundings take a while to stop spinning.  Once they do, I realize that I'm in the middle of nowhere.  I don't recognize anything around me, and there are certainly no steves that I know.

Part of me aches with disappointment.  It's been a long time since I've thought of my friends in this world, but finally getting here and not seeing them brings back all the grief I've been shoving away.

The other part of me, the practical part, forces me to get up and start scanning the area.  There isn't time to mope around.  Not when Green's life is on the line.  I need to focus on what I came here for.

I need a mine.

It doesn't take long for me to realize that I don't have a pickaxe on me.  The more I think about it, the more I realize I'm completely unprepared.  If it weren't for M, I wouldn't even have food.  If I had brought the coal, wool, and machine parts beforehand, I could finish this process in minutes.

I remind myself that this world was obviously different from the other realm.  The resources themselves might even be different.  There's no harm in starting from scratch.

It feels like forever since I've actually mined and cut down trees.  Thankfully, steve worlds don't have many mobs, which makes mining a lot easier.  Before too long, I have everything necessary to make the machine.

I stopped making rainbow stone a long time ago.  After the Rainbow Town fell apart, I didn't have the machine on hand, much less the Rainbow Tree of Life to supercharge the stone.  I still don't have the tree, but I have the basics.  Hopefully, it will be enough to help Green.

I choose a flat plains area nearby and start to clear it out, falling into the familiar rhythm of it.  Thankfully, the machine wouldn't be too big.  I assess the resources I've gathered, and begin to build.

The machine is mostly hoppers, although I add as much redstone, gold, and iron as I can find.  I haven't built a machine in a long time, so I keep worrying that I've forgotten something.  Doesn't it require more wiring?  An extra power source?  Glass tubing?

I shake the worries out of my head.  It's not like the machine will explode if it doesn't work right.  If nothing happens, all I have to do is flick the lever off and try something else.  I don't even have an evil villain flying after me, limiting my time.  I start to relax, giving the machine a final check.  It looks perfect.  Crossing my fingers, I place down the final lever and flick it on.

Boom!  Boom!  Crash!

For a few terrifying moment, I think that the machine actually is exploding.  Then, I remember about the lightning.  Unlike teleportation lightning, it doesn't fizzle out within a few seconds.  Instead, my ears are berated with the noise, drowning out everything else.  I forgot how annoying this is.  But at least I know the machine is doing something.

While it does its thing, I rush back to the fields, looking for sheep.  Basic rainbow stone is made from coal and brightly-dyed wool.  Without the colorful rainbow trees to shear, finding the sheep and dyes is harder than expected.  I have some wool in the machine already, of course, but I know it won't last long.

I continue on like this, finding new resources to fuel the machine while it thunders.  In the end, I wind up with a little over a stack of rainbow stone.  Compared to the super condensed rainbow stone I am used to, it looks small and bland.  But at least it's something.  I can help Green with this stuff.  I just need to get back to the portal.