Minecraft: a Redemption

Chapter 9

In the council room, Ridge hastily informed me that no one had seen Ben at all at the party, he wasn't in his room, but he was seen leaving the battle.

"So he must have gotten attacked on the way back," I interrupted nervously. How stupid was I? Getting drunk and letting Ben get kidnapped or... killed. "Didn't he have Herobrine's Sword? He can take care of himself."

Ridge looked uncertain. "I'm not sure."

"Maybe he's not captured!" I said hopefuly. "Maybe he just got sidetracked."

"All night?" Ridge shook his head. "Ben doesn't get sidetracked. Even when he became as cold as he is. He does not lose focus."

"Even so, we need to find him," I insisted, my head throbbing from last night. "He's my second in command."

Ridge gave me a look as though he didn't appreciate that I was talking like an expirienced leader. "Fine," he said. "You get to create a search party. Take no more than ten people. They can armor themselves in the leaders' armory."

I stood up out of my council seat. "Thanks for your consideration," I told Ridge, "but don't forget that I'm in charge here."

I made for the door.

"Ender," Ride said.

I turned around and looked at him.

"No matter how many warriors rally behind you, no matter how many battles you 'win', you will never lead the Resistance. Not until you see Gregor and Jane's dead bodies, knowing you couldn't save them," Ridge said, looking as though he had to contian himself from something. What, crying? Ridge didn't strike me as that kind of guy.

"Ridge, I don't want to be your enemy," I said sincerley.

"I'm not threatening you, just reminding."

I left the room.

Lora helped me find a list of all the Resistance members. I decided to take four others. Five was a well balanced number.

I told Lora this.

"Just find my brother," she replied, leaving me with a large computer screen and an empty room.

I scrolled down the list, trying to find Joseph. I couldn't go without him, no doubt about that.

Finally. I found his name.

Name: Barracks: Bunk: Age: Occu.: Serv.:

Joseph 5B 15 A 12 wpn mstr 3 yrs

I clicked "message" and wrote:

"Hey, Joseph, it's Ender. I want to take you on my mission to find Ben, so meet me at the leaders' armory at 12:30, okay? Thanks."

Once I finished that, I continued looking through names. After a while, I found the name "Rax".

Rax? Wasn't that the name of the brewer? All I remembered of meeting him was him talking to me and giving me a drink. Everything after that was blurry.

Even so, I checked out his file.

Name: Rax

Age: 16

Occupation: Brewer/ Warrior

Weapon: axe

Initiation: 6 months ago

Involved in: skirmish 52.C

Interested, I clicked on the link to the skirmish. Another file popped up.

Skirmish 52. C

Involved:

Rax (brewer)

Bradley (warrior) note: highest ranked warrior

Ervin- deceased

Summary: skirmish at Red Rock; 1 death

I wondered if that had anything to do with how Bradley didn't seem to like Rax last night.

Thinking about it, both Bradley and Rax a message similar to the one I sent Joseph. Hopefully they wouldn't hate me for choosing to put them together on a mission.

Now I only needed one more person, and I didn't know anyone else in the Resistance.

I searched "newly initiated" and a few names came up. One of them read:

Name: Barracks: Bunk: Age: Occu.: Serv.:

Braden 7C 3A 14 undeter. 1 wk

Alessi

This guy had only been in the Resistance for a week. He didn't even have a job. I felt as though I could relate to that.

I sent him the message.

At exactly, 11:30, most of the people I'd invited were at the leaders' armory. Everyone instead of Joseph, that is.

Rax and Bradly were standing across the room from each other when I walked in.

A lean boy my age with neat black hair and light brown eyes that I guessed was Braden Alessi walked in right before me.

"Go! What are you all doing lolly- gagging?" I ordered as soon as I walked in. "Put on armor, get weapons, yes, whatever you want, but hurry the flip up."

Braden Alessi nodded silently and went to some chests and began suiting up. The other two followed suit.

"Where in Notch's name is Joseph?" I asked to no one in particular.

"Here," Joseph said, appearing in the doorway, holding the girl from that morning's hand.

For the first tiime, I noticed her blank ble eyes. THen I realized something. She was blind.

"Ender, I'm sorry, I can't go. I have a mission to protect Stella," Joseph said, putting his arm around the girl.

"Couldn't you have messaged me that before?"

"You can't message back. I'm sorry, man. And good luck."

Joseph walked away, taking Stella with him.

I had no idea what to do, until... a couple medics passed through the hallway.

"Hey, medics!" I called to them. They stopped and looked at me. "Can you get me the patient Maria?" I asked them.

...

3 years earlier

Jane loved the cold air running through her hair, but that wasn't why she was in a sleepy village in the middle of the night.

No, that wasn't the reason at all. She was there to capture a boy. Someone named Gregor.

Mobs of all kinds passed along the streets under Jane as she jumped from roof to roof.

She still didn't know why she was being sent to go get this kid. Couldn't Ben, Grace, or Lora do it? She had been busy tonight with important things. The DBR could wait for her studies of gamma metal.

Jane landed on the roof-top of a relatively large, one floor, wooden house.

Taking out the picture Ben'd captured with one of his aricrafts above it, she made the match. This was Gregor's house.

An axe was slung from her back and she began chopping a hole into the house.

Jane dropped into a room with a brown haired boy sleeping on a bed in the corner. Looking at him, Jane decided that he looked a lot like the original Steve, and Ben.

Suddenly, he jolted and slowly raised his head, staring around the room with deep, sky blue eyes.

Eventually, his eyes found Jane, standing next to his bed.

She clamped her hand over his mouth. Idiot, she thought when he didn't struggle. What use will he be for us if he doesn't even fight back?

Jane put her iron sword to his neck and wondered what to say.

How would "Hi, I'm kidnapping you," sound?

"Gregor. Come with me. I'll explain once we get there."

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Sorry about the late update. High School is pretty hectic.

What grade are y'all going into?