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flytoanotherworld · 4 years ago

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Game 1: Minemath.

“Hey, kid!” One of the civilians asked from below. “Is everything okay?”

“Yeah, yeah.” The teenager answered calmly as she tried to clean her lenses with her shirt, having a hard time getting rid of that one annoying speck of dirt. “I’m just trying to clean my glasses real quick.”

“That’s not what I mean!” The civilian yelled, before she looked down from the top of the tree, to see a small crowd of people had gathered around. “How did you even get up there?”

“She helped Mr. Momo!” A little girl explained as she held up a white cat.

“I was riding my bike, but then I saw the girl had gotten her cat struck on the tree, so I used that ramp over there to jump all the way up here with the bike, and then I tossed the cat back to her.” The teenager explained, before she pointed at a broken down bike on the ground near the tree. “Although I ended up dropping the bike. I hope it didn’t break for real this time, because I think I’m still going to need it.”

“Who even are you?” Asked another one of the civilians.

“Name’s Peridot Greene.” The teenager explained, placing her glasses back over her green eyes as she calmly ran her hand through her blonde hair. “I’m a gamer.”

“What?” Another civilian asked in confusion.

“By the way, what time is it?” Peridot asked.

“09:30 AM.” The little girl explained, as the smile suddenly vanished from Peridot’s face.

“Oh no!” Peridot yelled, before she casually jumped out of the tree, safely landing on the sidewalk before running towards her bike. “I’m going to be late!”

“You could have come down the entire time?” The crowd yelled in conjunction, before Peridot tried to get on her bike, only for one of the wheels to fall off. Peridot’s eyes widened in surprise, before she quickly picked the entire bicycle up and began running with it as fast as she could.

“Sorry! No time to talk!” Peridot yelled as she ran down the street. “I have a game to win!”

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E-sports, short for electronic sports, are a type of sports that mostly focus on the competitive play of video games. E-sports mostly focus on matches between professional players, particularly of multiplayer games. There were many E-sports teams, but between them all there was one that stood out above all others: The Crystal Gems!

“Did you seriously just play that?” Zircon asked as she gently pressed the buttons on her controller and looked up from the small holographic screen of her portable console to the giant screen right at the top of the large arena, to see the image of her Pocket Monster quickly attacking Bismuth’s Pocket Monster, the super effective strike lowering the Monster’s health bar to nearly zero. Zircon turned back to Bismuth and smirked. “You won’t get too far as a gamer if you can’t even remember what the type advantages are.”

“Don’t worry, I got them all memorized!” Bismuth declared confidently, as she pressed a button, and her Pocket Monster struck Zircon’s Monster back, instantly taking out the entire health bar as the Monster fainted. “I got that Monster by breeding two different species! It can learn a move from a type that it wouldn’t normally have! Impressed yet?”

“Don’t get cocky!” Zircon warned as she sent out her second Pocket Monster. “There is a lot more you’ll have to do if you want to join the Crystal Gems!”

All members of the Crystal Gems are carefully handpicked. They hold a yearly public gaming competition in an attempt to find new members. Those who wish to join them must prove themselves in game.

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“Time is up.” One of the security guards explained. “We can close the door now.”

The other security guard nodded, before they quickly began to close the large metal gated leading to the large arena, when a small teenager suddenly came running down the streets and jumped right past them, just barely entering through the gate before they fully closed it.

“Hehe! I got here in time!” Peridot declared joyfully.

“You’re late, kid.” One of the guards declared. “Nobody is allowed to go inside after the gates are closed. Just a few more seconds and you’d be stuck outside.”

“Well, thank goodness for those seconds, then?” Peridot commented, before she ran towards the arena. “By the way, can you keep an eye on my bike? Thanks!”

The two guards turned, to see a small bicycle parked right in front of the building, before the bike suddenly fell to pieces for seemingly no reason.

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“I did it!” Bismuth declared joyfully as she sat on one of the audience seats, before turning to a few other competitors. “Those examiners are no joke. That woman made me sweat more than any online ranked match ever did.”

She suddenly heard the sound of footsteps, before the door swung open and a small teenager ran in, quickly leaping into one of the seats.

“Hi! I’m Peridot!” She greeted with a wide smile. “Are you a competitor?”

“Yeah.” The muscular black woman answered, slightly taken back by Peridot’s excitement. It was hard to believe, but Bismuth was actually not that much older than Peridot, only beating her by three years.

“Look! Another match!” Peridot yelled as she pointed to the arena, and Bismuth looked to see a competitor and an examiner standing face to face, both holding controllers that were projecting holographic screens in front of them, the images in each of the holograms also being shown in the massive screen above them. “They’re playing Dogcopter Kart Deluxe! I love that one!”

“Feeling nervous?” Aquamarine asked as her kart drifted through the road, swiftly making its way towards the finishing line while leaving the competitor in the dust. “You’ll have to do something fast if you still want to win this race!”

The blue haired teenager did not respond and simply focused on her controller as she made her motorcycle hit the slight incline in the corner of the track, her vehicle jumping through the air and cutting the corner just slightly, which was enough of a shortcut for the motorcycle to nearly catch up to Aquamarine’s kart.

“You know how to do fancy tricks, hm?” Aquamarine commented. “I bet those will look really neat as you get second place!”

Aquamarine’s kart dashed through an item box, before suddenly slipping on a banana peel the competitor had placed there in the previous lap. Aquamarine gasped in surprise, before the competitor calmly pressed a button, and a lightning fell from the sky, striking Aquamarine’s kart, making it shrink just as the motorcycle flew past her and crossed the finishing line in first place.

“Examiner defeated!” The announcer declared. “Competitor wins!”

“Ugh! Come on!” Aquamarine complained, as the competitor calmly turned off her console and began walking away.

“Who was that?” Peridot asked curiously.

“I heard her name is Lapis Lazuli.” Bismuth explained. “She got first place in all local game tournaments those last months.”

“Wow!” Peridot declared with stars in her eyes.

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“So you came after all Lazuli.” A large woman declared, as Lapis calmly sat on one of the audience seats. “Good. It would have been boring without you.”

“Jasper, are you going to keep bothering me all day? Because if so, I might just get up and leave.” Lapis declared.

“Go ahead, and then I’ll be the uncontested first place.” Jasper declared with a grin. “I thought the Crystal Gems had a higher standard. Most of the people here aren’t even worth the time it would take for me to crush them.”

“Wow! I just can’t wait to be your teammate.” Lapis answered sarcastically in an uninterested tone of voice.

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“So, are you a gamer too?” Bismuth asked, before Peridot nodded. “Did you come here to watch the exams?”

“Oh, no, I’m a competing.” Peridot explained.

“But this was the last game.” Bismuth explained as she pointed at the people leaving the arena.

“What?” Peridot yelled in surprise.

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“Was that the last one?” Squaridot asked as she watched over the arena alongside the other judges.

“Seems like it.” Zircon answered, before one of the security guards calmly approached her and whispered in her ear. “No, wait, one more competitor just arrived.”

“She just arrived?” Squaridot asked. “She’s late then.”

“She technically crossed the gate before they closed it. This means she gets one match just like everyone else.” Zircon explained as she calmly crossed her legs and cleaned her yellow monocle.

“Really? We’re letting her play because of a technicality?” Squaridot asked angrily. “She got here just a few moments before time was up.”

“It is what’s written in the contract. Everyone who gets in before the gates are closed gets one match.” Zircon explained as she placed her monocle back over her eye. “If you don’t like that, you can go complain to the boss.”

“Grrrr… fine! We’ll give her a match! But it will be by my terms!” Squaridot declared as she got up from the chair and walked away, Zircon staring at her curiously as she left.

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“Now, for the final match of the day!” Declared the voice of an announcer, as Squaridot and Peridot made their way into the arena, coming in from different sides before they both stood a few meters away from each other. They turned on their consoles, as the floating holographic screens appeared. “The game will now be randomly selected!”

During the matches in the exams, the games that would be played would be selected at random, that way the competitors would have to practice multiple games equally in order to be ready for the exam. What nobody knew, however, was that Squaridot had tempered with the system for that specific match, that way she knew very well what game they would be playing.

“Minemath! Player Vs Player mode!” Declared the announcer.

“Yay! I love Minemath!” Peridot declared excitedly.

“You’re very loud, aren’t you?” Squaridot asked.

“Oh! I forgot to introduce myself!” Peridot declared. “My name is Peridot Greene!”

“I am the overseer of this exam. Squarious Julius Aranmadot.” Squaridot declared. “Squaridot for short.”

“Our names rhyme! How cool!” Peridot declared.

“Anyway, in case you don’t know how Player Vs Player mode works: we both get thrown into a randomly generated Minemath map with no items at the start, and our objective is to kill the other player. First one to die loses.” Squaridot explained, as Peridot nodded. “Some changes have been made from the normal Minemath. The first one is that we get an entire overview of the map before the game begins, and we get to choose our starting point, this is so we wouldn’t get lost and end up walking away from each other.”

Peridot nodded as her holographic screen showed an image of the game’s map. Peridot carefully looked the map over, analyzing each of the structures and biomes, before marking a spot to be her spawning point, just as Squaridot did the same with another spot.

“Alright, now for the most important change.” Squaridot declared. “All food has been removed from the game, and the ability to recover health has also been deactivated. We each start with ten hearts, and once you take damage, there is no way to heal.”

“Wow!” Peridot whispered with stars in her eyes. “This will be so much fun!”

“Overconfident, hm?” Squaridot thought as she watched Peridot’s excited reaction, before speaking up. “Game Open!”

The map suddenly vanished from their screen, before their characters immediately spawned on the locations they had selected, and their gameplay began being shown in the massive screen above them.

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“Hm?” Jasper asked curiously. “Squaridot is playing?”

“What?” Lapis asked as she opened her eyes and turned to the arena. “I thought she was only here to oversee everything…”

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“Alright!” Peridot declared with a smile as she spawned right in the middle of a desert village, before quickly running into one of the houses and taking a crafting table. “You can tell what is inside the houses by the shape of their ceiling!”

“Yeah, I know!” Squaridot declared as she spawned right between a desert biome and a forest biome. She ran towards one of the trees and quickly punched it down, taking exactly four blocks of wood. She opened her inventory and turned the blocks into sixteen planks. Four of the planks made a crafting table, which she put down before using two planks to make sticks, and using three more planks to make a wooden pickaxe. The entire process had taken less than a second.

“Wow! You’re quick!” Peridot commented. “Are you a speedrunner?”

Squaridot smirked confidently, before turning to the desert and running towards a nearby pyramid.

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“Does that kid even know who she’s dealing with?” Bismuth thought as she watched over the match. “Squaridot is not just a random speedrunner, she is one of the best speedrunners. She’s been in the Top 12 Minemath runs for years. Every time someone managed to knock her out of 13th place, she just did another run and broke the record again. Peridot will be in trouble if she’s not careful.”

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“Don’t worry! I’m a fast player too!” Peridot declared as she ran into the village, quickly collecting several hay bales. Peridot turned the bales into wheat, before running towards the village’s farmer and quickly trading them for three emeralds. Peridot ran towards the fisherman and traded the emeralds for a bucket with a cod, before tossing the cod away, obtaining a bucket of water. The entire process took only five seconds. “What do you think of that one?”

“A bucket of water?” Squaridot thought as she took a glance at Peridot’s side of the screen. “What is she planning?”

Squaridot reached the secret room inside the pyramid with her wooden pickaxe nearby breaking, careful not to trigger the TNT as she opened one of the chests, pulling out three iron ingots. Squaridot put down her crafting table and crafted an iron pickaxe, before beginning to dig down under her own feet.

“Mining under yourself?” Peridot asked in slight surprise. “That’s dangerous!”

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“Damn that Squaridot.” Lapis whispered. “She skipped stone and went from wood straight into steel. The kid doesn’t even have a wooden sword yet.”

“This should end quickly.” Jasper commented calmly. “Maybe watching this could be a good practice if I ever have to match against Squaridot.”

“That poor kid. This is the worst match she could possibly get.” Lapis commented. “Literally any other game would be better to go against Squaridot. I don’t think anyone here can beat that woman at Minemath.”

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“Let’s take a swim!” Peridot declared as she jumped into a nearby river, swiftly swimming to the bottom and breaking several blocks of gravel. She took eight blocks, before a piece of flint few out. She took the flint and went back to the surface.

“She took almost ten seconds to do that one. She’ll never beat me if she’s so slow.” Squaridot thought to herself as she continued digging downwards, before suddenly stopping and beginning to dig a tunnel. “y11. Perfect.”

Peridot went towards the Iron Giant, before leaping and placing three blocks under herself. She began leaping in place while striking the Iron Giant with her fists, the Iron Giant not being able to strike her from the top of the blocks.

“Iron Giants’ hitbox only reaches two blocks up. It can’t hit me as long as I’m three blocks above it.” Peridot explained as she continued to strike the Giant. “If you hit a mob while falling, it will take critical damage, and if I manage to kill an Iron Giant, there is a chance that it will drop…”

The Iron Giant fell to the ground and died, before dropping three iron ingots.

“Iron!” Peridot declared as she leaped down from above the blocks, taking half a heart of fall damage as she took the iron ingots and began running as fast as she could.

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“That idiot! Why didn’t she just break the blocks under herself?” Bismuth thought in surprise. “She just took damage for no reason just to save a few seconds!”

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“It seems like this is going to end sooner than I had thought!” Squaridot declared while laughing confidently as she continued mining, before finding two ores of blue stones. She swiftly mined them, before opening her crafting table and building a diamond sword. “You’re done for!”

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“What? That’s impossible!” Bismuth suddenly yelled in shock as she stared at the screen with wide eyes. “It’s only been two minutes since the match started and she already has diamond! A diamond sword takes three and a half hearts! It does 150% more damage when the hit is critical! Just two hits and Peridot’s health bar is done for!”

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“Are you scared, kid?” Squaridot asked as she quickly made her way back through the tunnel and began using blocks to climb back to the surface. “I’m coming for you.”

“You got diamond that fast?” Peridot asked in surprise, before she suddenly smiled with stars in her eyes. “It will be so cool when I beat you!”

“Hm?” Squaridot asked, slightly taken back by Peridot’s response.

“Lava pools are twice more likely to form in deserts!” Peridot declared as she placed two gravel blocks in the lava, before throwing the water from her bucket on top of it. She let the water flow for just long enough for the first blocks of lava around the gavel to turn into obsidian, before taking the water back with the bucket. She broke the two gravel blocks she had placed, and then placed three gravel blocks on the ground right next to the obsidian she had just created, with a forth block sticking out from the top in the direction of the obsidian. She placed three other blocks on the ground around the obsidian, before dropping her water between the blocks she had placed, creating a continuous stream of water that did not touch any of the lava. “Wanna see a magic trick?”

Peridot took a bucket of lava, and began dropping it around the stream of water, creating obsidian blocks as the water and lava touched. Peridot carefully created the blocks in the exact position she needed, forming the shape of a portal. She took out the water with her bucket, before using the flint and iron she had taken to craft flint and steel. She lit up the portal, dropped the water to empty up her bucket, and jumped in.

“See you in hell! Hehe!” Peridot joked.

“A portal to hell?” Squaridot thought. “What is she planning?”

Peridot spawned in a random point in hell, quickly filling her bucket with lava and beginning to run around the lava lake as fast as she could, carefully not to touch the magma.

“Why, you little…” Squaridot complained as she ran through the desert village where Peridot had first spawned, swiftly making her way to the desert in search of the portal. “You won’t escape from me!”

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“What does she plan to do with a Hell Fortress?” Lapis asked.

“Hm?” Jasper asked.

“She’s searching for a Hell Fortress. Fortresses spawn more frequently while in open areas, like the surroundings of lava rivers for example.” Lapis explained. “She is searching for a Hell Fortress.”

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“Haha! Found it!” Peridot declared as she spotted a Hell Fortress in the distance.

“And I am about to find you, you brat!” Squaridot declared as she jumped through the portal, spawning in Hell as she swiftly chased after Peridot. Peridot entered the fortress and began to run through it, just as Squaridot saw the fortress in the distance and entered it, closely chasing Peridot. “Get back here, you brat! I’ll chase you to the ends of this Earth!”

“Oh, come as close as you like!” Peridot declared with a smile as she went around a corner, Squaridot chasing after her, before suddenly being struck by a fireball, her body lightning on fire. Squaridot looked up to see several burning mobs firing at her. “Blazing spawner! I knew it was here because I heard their sound effects!”

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“What?” Jasper asked as she got up from her seat and stared down at the two players in surprise. “Squaridot just got hit? This has never happened before in a PvP!”

Lapis stared at Peridot with a curious expression, as the small gamer smiled confidently.

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“You idiot! The Blazings will attack you as well!” Squaridot declared as she struggled to avoid the fireballs from the mobs, striking several of them down only for more of them to spawn. “I entered this room with full health, while you lost half a heart! You will die first!”

“That’s what you think!” Peridot asked, as the Blazings fired at her, only for their fireballs to go right through her. Squaridot stared at her in surprise for a few seconds, until she realized where Peridot was standing. “When you stand on a block that has a fence on it, fireballs cannot hit you, since they’re redirected to hit the fence instead! Fences won’t catch on fire so it can’t burn me!”

“Grrr…” Squaridot growled in anger, as she turned to look the spawner. It was too far away, and her pickaxe was made of iron, if she tried to break it, the Blazings would kill her first, and even if she did successfully break it, her health would be so low that Peridot could finish her off with a critical. Squaridot turned to Peridot’s character angrily and began running towards her. “I’ll just have to kill you first!”

“Good luck with that, you clod!” Peridot declared with a smile, as she dropped the lava from her bucket right in front of Squaridot, the lava burning right through her last hearts, as Squaridot’s character fell dead, her dropped items burning in the lava.

“Squaridot tried to swim in lava.” Declared the game over screen.

“No!” Squaridot yelled in surprise.

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“She did it!” Bismuth celebrated as she jumped off her seat and punched the air excitedly.

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“Hey, is this serious?” Jasper asked in surprise, as Lapis smirked and got up from her seat, crossing her arms.

“This is going to be an interesting year.” Lapis commented before walking away.

“Just who the hell is that brat?” Jasper asked angrily as she looked down at the smiling Peridot.

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“B-but… I’m in the Top 12…” Squaridot whispered, astonished by her defeat as she let go of her controller and fell to her knees.

“Examiner defeated!” The announcer declared. “Competitor wins!”

“Game over!” Peridot declared, as she winked and gave thumbs up while smiling widely.

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“It was very impressive what you did back there?” Peridot heard as she left the arena, before she turned to see Lapis leaning against the wall with her arms crossed. “I legitimately thought it would be impossible for you to beat Squaridot, yet you did.”

“Thanks.” Peridot declared with a smile. “I love Minemath so I practice a lot.”

“Don’t get overconfident.” Lapis warned as she stared at Peridot with a serious expression. “You’re not a Crystal Gem yet. Now that we won, we’re all on their radar, but they will only pick those who stand out. If you want to enter that team, from now on you will have to do the impossible again and again.”

Peridot stared at Lapis with a curious expression for a few seconds, before her expression changed into one of seriousness, and she nodded. Lapis smiled, before she began walking away. Peridot turned to the giant screen, which now only showed the logo of the Crystal Gems.

“Do the impossible again and again?” Peridot thought with a smile. “Alright then! The game is on!”

To be continued.

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