Revenge of the Juice (Book 2 of End Robot's Reign Series)

UHC Real World Style (Flame's POV)

I stand inside my tube and look down at the floor. I like him I really do. I just don't know how to tell him that I'm sorry. Maybe we'll get teamed with each other. Probably not though. I'll get teamed with a random. I look to my left and see Straub. On my right is H. Across from me Graser and next to him is a cute guy in a white hoodie and Will. That little son of a bitch.

I raise my arms and try to get Graser's attention. He looks at me. 'What?' he mouths. I point over to Will's tube. He looks over and sees Will staring back at him. Graser waves and he waves back.

A slot opens in my tube and I take out a compass. The arrow always points north. I take a deep breath and close my eyes. I feel my arms touch a tree and I open my eyes. Okay a swamp biome. Wonderful for apples and mushrooms, even though they don't provide very much nutrition. I look to my left and see a player staring at me. 

I wait for the go then run to a tree. I begin to punch it to retrieve its wood to make a table. "Look I know you hate me and everything, but you could at least acknowledge my existence," the person next to me says punching a tree near mine. I ignore him.

I create a crafting table and set it down on the ground. He walks over to it and taps it a menu popping up for him. He creates sticks and makes a wooden pickaxe for himself and digs the dirt to get to the stone that lays beneath of it. I watch him gather some stone and count how many blocks he mines. 16 blocks. Enough for a furnace and two picks.

He tosses me three cobblestone and I make a pick out of them. "I'm going to go look around for a cave. You can come with me or you can stay and watch for apples. Your choice," my partner says walking away.

"I'll stay here thanks. Maybe if we're lucky we can a few," I say not looking at him.

I go back into the hole that he was in and grab two more cobblestone enough for a sword. I pull the sword out of the dropping compartment and walk over to a herd of cows.

I kill them and skin them getting a few pieces of leather out of it. Picking the good pieces of meat out of them I listen to the footsteps that are slowly coming closer. I crouch and slowly hide behind a tree. "It's just me don't worry," he says.

I come out from behind the tree and pick up two apples that have fallen to the ground. I spy a few chickens in the corner of my eye and walk towards them. I stab them and watch as the blood from them slowly drip off of the sword. I pluck their feathers knowing that they'll be useful later in crafting arrows. I put the feathers inside of my backpack and look at him. "Okay, so did you find a cave?" I ask him raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, Flame, it's right over here," he says leading me to the cave entrance.

I step inside and look for coal. I quickly find a vein and mine half of it. I leave the rest for him and continue walking. I open my backpack and get out my sticks creating torches with them. I place one on the wall and watch as a creature comes towards me. "Creeper, watch out!" I shout in warning and swipe my sword across its body and watch as it almost blows up. It is soon enough slayed in moments and I collect the iron ore on the walls of the cave.

"Flame, zombie behind you!" he shouts and I spring up and slay the zombie with my fire powers. "I thought we weren't cheating in this game. Guess not," he says.

"Shut up. It's an instinct now," I tell him and walk a little farther down in the cave.

"Can't you just turn your instinct off for now?" he asks me and I look at him.

"Do you understand how stupid you sound now dude?" I say.

He laughs a feminine laugh, "Shut up," he says blushing a little bit.

"C'mon so that we can at least have full iron before tomorrow. Someone could be stalking us at any given moment," I tell him walking down the cave. I hear the hiss of a spider and look to my left.

He runs in front of me whipping out his sword, slaying the beast, and picking up the two string out off of the stone cave ground. "There you go! You have been saved my damsel in distress!"

"Well fuck you too!" I say and run down the hallway mining out another vein of six iron ore and putting down the crafting table. I quickly craft some furnaces and set them down shoving the iron into the top half of the furnaces and coal in the bottom half.

"Hate being called a lady. I am a woman. I can take care of my damn self!" I mumble to myself. 

"Look, Flame, I'm really sorry for what I did. I wasn't trying to make you seem like you couldn't care for yourself, which you totally can, but I was trying to make a joke. Didn't turn out so well as you know. I'm sorry bestie," he says and hugs me from behind.

"It's okay I guess. I mean we're going to be here for a while. And I think I can make a special fire and ice enchantment table all we need is to have some water. Can you get me some?" I ask him.

"Oh yeah sure just hand me a bucket and I'll leave you here to mine iron. Have fun!" he says and I hand him a bucket. He walks down a dark pathway and I walk another way collecting ores and running them back to the furnaces to make them into armor pieces and put them on.

A few hours later, He comes back and I slide my hand in the air to take a peek at the player lifeline list. We're both one of the only ones at full. I take a peek at H's percentage and I see he's down about three hearts. "Did you find any gold?" I ask him.

"Uh, yeah actually!" he says and dumps the ore out of his backpack and onto the floor.

"18 gold ore? We're livin' on the rich side of town today! Let's get this shit smelted!" I say shoving it into the empty furnaces.