MCSM OneShots

The Redstone Heart (1/5)

(Gonna try some Oneshots which aren't really 'ship' based, does that make sense?)

Lukas's PoV

Lukas narrowed his eyes at the small window he managed to find. It was going to be difficult to jump from such a distance... because if he missed, he would probably plummet to his death. And it didn't help that Lukas was practically standing on the edge of a roof, his bow in one hand and the other holding an arrow in case of an emergency.

"What are you waiting for?" PAMA's voice echoed in his head, followed by a ringing sound in his ears. Lukas sighed, looking at the window.

"If we fall, we won't live." Lukas told the voice. There was a soft clicking noise as PAMA processed the situation.

After awhile, it buzzed, indicating that PAMA had an idea. "Grab some blocks off the roof and make a bridge across to the room. Easy."

Lukas frowned, looking down at the oak stairs he was standing on. Without hesitating, he bent down and grabbed some stairs, careful not to lose his balance on the roof. If only PAMA could let him rest for a little while. They'd been traveling for hundreds of miles, finding a place for the computer to live in.

"No rest Lukas. Not now. You can rest later." PAMA said encouragingly, but Luka knew it all fake. PAMA just needed him for its dirty work after all. "You always say that. But I never seem to rest." Lukas mumbled, blinking away a bead of sweat away from his eyes, careful not to let it corrupt his left eye.

Lukas wondered what were his friends doing... they probably didn't even miss him. Lukas had been proclaimed missing for at least ten years after all. And he wouldn't be surprised if they gave up on him. "They won't miss you, Lukas." PAMA chirped, sounding cheerful, despite the situation.

Lukas didn't reply, still breaking the pieces of the roof off to grab enough blocks. He really missed his friends. But how would they react to him? He and PAMA had been on a lot of adventures. From traveling to the Nether Fortress, to the Ice Spikes Biome... Lukas looked a little like a scavenger.

His clothes were ripped and his blonde hair was starting to fall past his shoulders. Rather distracting if he had to shoot anything with his bow to be honest. Also... he had lost an eye to a zombie pigman. That was one thing which bugged him the most.

PAMA had helped Lukas by providing his injured eye some energy from the chip at the back of Lukas's head. The same one from Crown Mesa many years ago... now his new eye was better than ever, with PAMA guiding him with his archery.

But it just wasn't the same... Lukas missed his old self. Him just writing his books or having his own voice in his head again without a robotic one in his mind. Hint hint.

"Are you done yet?" PAMA asked, it's voice crackling at the back of Lukas' mind. "Yeah, I'm ready," he gathered all the stairs from the roof and started to build his way across to the window, hoping people wouldn't see him. If not he had to... well, execute them. PAMA's orders. They had to keep quiet about their identity after all.

No one had to know about Lukas's return.

Lukas quietly shattered the glass and swept away the pieces. "Wow..." he muttered. There was treasure everywhere... all in neat chests, labeled with signs of what they contained. It seemed like the Order has been taking care of themselves just fine without Lukas, which made him feel a little upset.

"Focus Lukas." PAMA sent a jolt of electricity to his fingers, making him jump a little. "I hate it when you do that." Lukas muttered as he searched the chests. There was a moment of silence as Lukas concentrated, shifting chests every so often to unearth more and more treasure.

He threw away a weird looking gauntlet, which looked faded with dust. He also found a block, but it was purple and glowed strangely. "What is this?" Lukas asked PAMA, who clicked and beeped.

"This is a Structure Block. Not the one we're looking for. Keep searching." PAMA instructed as Lukas cast the block aside. But he didn't notice that the block had created a structure behind him, drawing someone's attention. But Lukas didn't notice, he was too busy searching the chests.

Finally, he got to a rather dusty old chest, labelled as 'Do Not Touch'.

"What do you reckon?" Lukas asked out loud to PAMA, which clicked a few times, thinking. "It could be just the thing we're looking for. Let's grab it and go."

Lukas's PAMA controlled eye suddenly beeped, making Lukas pull out his bow and spin around to fire an arrow straight at a figure at the centre of the room without hesitation. "Whoa!" the figure jumped aside as the arrow nearly shot him in the chest.

"What happened?" PAMA asked, sounding more and more agitated. The bad thing was that due to the capacity of the storage in the chip on Lukas's head, PAMA couldn't see things unless Lukas let it to. Or if he told PAMA what's going on. "Intruder." Lukas said simply, raising his bow as the figure unsheathed his diamond sword.

"Oh yeah? You're the intruder!" the person said, stepping closer to Lukas. A pair of familiar looking green eyes met his mismatched blue and red ones.

And a shock of recognition shot through Lukas. No. Anyone but him.

Without letting time for the guy to realise that it was him, Lukas grabbed the chest he and PAMA found and sprinted for the window, where they had climbed through.

"HEY WAIT!" the person shouted as Lukas shot a lingering arrow of slowness at him, making the area around the person swirl with grey smoke.

"Go go go!" PAMA beeped quickly, picking up Lukas's panic as he ran across the bridge, and slide down the tree he had used to climb up the building.

"I know PAMA, now will you stop shouting in my head and let me run faster?" Lukas argued as he darted away, heading for the woods.

PAMA immediately quieted down as more and more people chased after Lukas. He shot arrow after arrow, wounding some of the townspeople or even killing them with no mercy. Just like how PAMA taught him.

To kill with no mercy.

"Turn left." PAMA said as Lukas's red eye indicated they should be running to the left. "Wait!"

Lukas turned around to see the same person chasing after him, a worried and hurt look on his face. Lukas teared his eyes away from him and plunged into the woods, still clutching the chest close to him.

After almost half an hour of running, Lukas finally stopped by a waterfall, trying to catch his breath. "Did you get it?" PAMA asked without missing a beat as Lukas looked down at the chest he was gripping tightly.

"Lukas." PAMA said as he tried to erase any thoughts of Jesse out of his mind before PAMA sensed his emotions. "I'm fine. Humans need oxygen to breathe and all." he placed down the dusty wooden chest and peeled off the sign.

"Is it?" PAMA asked impatiently as Lukas washed his dirty hands in the water. There was some blood from where he had broken the window and where he had used his bow too many times. But finally, he took a deep breath and prised open the lid, revealing a block, pulsing with red light and he heard a heartbeat echoing through the woods.

Lukas smiled, his face glowing from the red block he was finally holding in his hands. "We got it."

-End

(Should I make more of these.? :/)