The Nether Queen - Herobrine x Reader

Chapter Fourteen

You wake up to two quiet, very similar voices.

You blink your eyes open to see Steve and Herobrine chatting, Steve sitting next to you on the bed while your husband leans against the wall. You don't see Manfred, but he probably just popped away for a minute.

"Steve?" Both of them look at you as you speak, and Steve smiles.

"Hey kiddo."

"Hey." You sit up, stretching your arms above your head. "Did I miss anything?"

"Herobrine brought me back here." Steve nods in your husband's direction. "We've agreed to work together to get rid of this 'Null' guy."

"Oh. Good. Do you know how?"

"He just respawned when I killed him, so no, we're not sure yet." Herobrine replies. "We may have to ask..." he grimaces. "We may have to get Notch to delete him."

"Um, but if he could do that, wouldn't he have killed him already?" Unless he just hasn't noticed.

"It's possible that he is as helpless to get rid of him as he is with me, it's true." Your husband concedes. "But if all else fails, we will be forced to go to him to ask for help. That is, Steve will. I plan to continue avoiding him."

"Fair enough, since he could ki-" You blinked, and Herobrine was beside you, immediately teleporting the two of you to another room.

"Do not tell Steve I can't respawn." He orders. You blink.

"Oh. Sorry. Right." He teleports you back to the bedroom, where Steve is standing there looking bewildered.

"Where did-"

"Nowhere." Herobrine interrupts. Steve slowly raises one eyebrow.

"Well, um... what are we going to do until then?" You speak up. "Null is probably getting more mobs, should we fortify the castle, or try to spy on him, or ready the troops, or..."

"I'm going to go check on the troops, just to update them on the situation." Herobrine straightens up. "Do not trash my room." And he was gone. Steve turns to you with a sly grin on his face.

"Now that sounds like an open invitation to me."

"Steve!"

"Okay, okay."

This made it twice now that one of his creations had escaped him.

Notch brushed aside a line of code, making his way deeper into the heart of his world. His own coding, it appeared, was too dangerous. Any time it was applied to another entity, they became unstable. Uncontrollable. Wild.

Null, unfortunately, had to be the more dangerous of the two. Bryn escaped as a newly - created being, with barely any motivation and no knowledge of the world. Honestly, it was a miracle he had survived so long without even dying once.

Null, on the other hand, evolved sentience after thousands of years of work, thousands of years of writing and rewriting his own algorithms, of rewiring himself to work at max efficiency before he had developed sentience. He was dangerous, powerful. He had to be shut down before this went too far.

Notch pressed a hand against the shield, keeping him from accessing Null's coding, and sighed. Locked out. Just like he had been from Bryn, all those years ago.

Bryn... the two had fought, he had caught glimpses of it from across the world. The player Bryn had kidnapped was dragged into the middle of it, but she was not hurt. Notch's steward was taking care of her as he should.

Perhaps... perhaps he should not step in just yet. His two biggest problems had picked the other as an enemy, the only loss to be found here was if the player was killed as a result. That would be a shame, but not a huge loss. One death would be worth it if it meant ridding him of Null and Bryn.

Yes, Notch decided, backing up and turning from the core. He would bide his time for now, let the two battle it out. When a winner was declared, he would take advantage of them in their weakened state and be rid of them as well.

This wasn't that bad of a situation after all.