Attack on the Overworld: An Unofficial Overworld Adventure, Book Two
4 Attack on the Overworld In the Overworld we had things like walking skel etons and Endermen and baby zombies that rode on chickens In Maison’s world there wasn’t anything like that but they did have computers where you could find out anything with a few clicks of a button You could even watch a video another word I’d learned from Maison that showed you real things that had happened even after they had happened There was a video on top of this webpage A single page on a website was called a webpage which I guess made sense When the video started to play it showed a grown woman holding a microphone and talking to Maison who looked a little awkward Welcome back to our nightly news program the woman was saying I’m here interviewing Maison an eleven-year-old local hero who saved her middle school Now Maison has it been solved why all those zombies and spiders attacked your school Um no Maison said not wanting to admit what was really going on Maison and I had agreed it would be safer for both our worlds if other people didn’t know about the computer portal No one has ever seen anything like it the woman said An unprotected middle school full of children sud denly under the onslaught of vicious monsters wanting nothing more than your utter destruction She’s kind of dramatic-sounding I whispered now Shhh Maison whispered back to me Yet in the midst of your panic you took charge the woman on the video continued How did you find the courage
Attack on the Overworld 5 Sometimes life doesn’t really give you a choice Maison said in the video Sometimes you just have to do the right thing Profound words from someone so young the woman gushed in response There was also a young boy who was there helping you Witnesses said he looked like a Minecraft character and they said that you intro duced him earlier as your cousin Stevie Some other witnesses reported that you said in the auditorium that he really wasn’t your cousin but someone who came out of Minecraft Which of course is impossible And when I talked to your mother Maison she said you don’t have a cousin named Stevie Can you clear this up for us Now Maison really looked uncomfortable in the video I felt bad for her Well I think there was just some misunderstanding she said to the woman Things were pretty crazy with the school under attack and all that and sometimes people get their details mixed up when big stressful things happen The interview went on for a couple more minutes with the woman insisting over and over that Maison was a hero and Maison looking like she was enjoying this and embarrassed by it at the same time Then the video ended So what’s so scary about that I asked after a moment Well being on camera was kind of scary Maison said It was a live interview which means it was playing on TV right when I was talking to her But that’s not what I want to show you Look She scrolled down lower on the page and my eyes widened
6 Attack on the Overworld It’s called a message board Maison was explaining Someone put the video on top of the message board for people to talk about Look at what they wrote But I was already reading it DestinyIsChoice123 Maison thinks she’s so hot She makes me sick She’s no hero She’s not even that good at baseball TheVampireDragon555 Just a misunderstanding Wow that Maison’s stupid Can’t believe that stupid newscaster bought it too They’re both stupid Frankie_the_Squidking You guys shouldn’t be say ing bad things about Maison I’m a sixth grader at her school and I know her personally She’s the real deal She helped my friends Jeremy Dalton Tobias and me fight off the zombies We couldn’t have done that without her TheVampireDragon555 Frankie_the_Squidking You’re stupid I know Maison’s hiding something and I’m going to prove it In fact I hope she’s reading this right now Hey MAISON We’re coming for you We know where you live DestinyIsChoice123 She’s not going to think she’s hot stuff for much longer is she TheVampireDragon555 When we’re through with her she’s going to regret ever getting out of bed in the morning Hear that Maison Tick-tock count the clock we’ll see you soon I scratched my head I’m confused Why do they have names like DestinyIsChoice123 or TheVampire Dragon555
Attack on the Overworld 7 Those aren’t their real names Maison said They’re made-up names so they can post anonymously That means you don’t know who they really are So they could be anybody typing this anywhere in your world I asked Well yeah she said But they said they know where I live Don’t you want people to know where you live I asked Everyone around us knows where my dad and I live That’s how you get friends Well that might have been a little much on my part The truth was Maison really was my only good friend Sometimes I played with the other kids in the village when Dad and I went to visit but I never really felt wel comed by them Maison sounded pretty upset now No Stevie she said Don’t you get it Two people are threatening me online Well have they shown up I asked No she said But I’m scared they’re going to I don’t get it I said What’s so scary about this Then I thought I understood One of them really is a dragon I exclaimed thinking of the Ender Dragon Of course I’d never seen the Ender Dragon but Dad had told me tons of stories So this message board is proof that a dragon got out of the portal and is trying to contact you I could see why Maison would be scared of that I was scared of that I’d never dealt with a dragon before What’s a Vampire I asked because that part was still confusing me Is that some kind of mob in your world
