Unknown 404

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This story is a work in progress, there is still more to be added
Edit: I was not aware that unfinished stories must be put into userblogs when I posted this page, I am aware now and will refrain from doing so in the future, however I myself can not delete this page to abide by that at the moment. I apologize for this.
=== Introduction ===
It was just a regular Tuesday. I did my normal routine, get up, eat, go to school, do homework, play Minecraft with friends. Me and my friend group were on our survival server I hosted. We had been playing for a few hours and everything was going really well, we were messing around with the newly added bees and making redstone machines with honey blocks. My best friend Chris went to go and get us some more pistons and observers from our server-shared storage room. We continued building our current machine, a giant TNT duplicator that we planned to use to excavate a large amount of land to make a big central base. My other 4 friends, Mike, Jess, Chloe, and Ben, worked on fixing some of the issues we were having with the machine while I went to our slime farm to get some slime. It was going fine, I was getting plenty of slime balls, when I saw something strange. There was what looked like a player standing in the shadows. I ignored it, thinking it was probably Ben or Jess messing with me as they love to. I farmed for a few more minutes and thought nothing of it when the figure was missing when I looked up. As I flew back to the site, I decided to make a detour to the storage area because I needed to get some building blocks, and I figured I could see if Chris was still there. I also hopped into a voice chat in Discord and pinged my friends to join to.
Ben: Hey Chris, whats taking you so long?
Chris: I can't find the pistons, I thought there were a couple stacks in the redstone section
Me: I'm heading there now to grab some blocks, I'll help you look. Also, real funny at the slime farm guys.
Chloe: What happened?
Me: I'm not sure who but either Jess or Ben was hiding in there to freak me out
Jess: Hey, I've been at the duplicator the whole time!
Ben: Same
Mike: I can back them up on that
Me: Oh, probably just a zombie then
I then arrived at the storage and found some pistons while Chris grabbed my building blocks.
=== The Encounter ===
As we turned the corner that lead to the exit we both saw a figure standing at the end of the hall. Me and Chris both fell completely silent as we stared at the mysterious player.
Mike: You guys still there?
We were still in shock from what we saw.
Chris: What the hell is that
Chloe: What's what?
Ben: Yeah what's going on?
The figure's skin was mostly black with a small tint of blue and a few dots of gray on its head that made up its crude face. I looked up at it's name tag and it simply said 404.
Jess: Did they leave?
Me: No, we're still here, and there's a weird player at the door.
Chris: Yeah, it's not doing anything, just standing there
Mike: I'm coming there, if they leave then follow them
For what felt like hours it stood there perfectly still, until Mikes username came into view. As he was about to arrive, I saw the 5 pixels that made up the skins face curve upwards into a smile, before it vanished into thin air, no particles, not movement, no chat messages, it was just gone.
Mike: Where is this thing?
Chris: It's gone, it just vanished
Chloe: Where do you think it went?
Ben: It was probably just some dumb joke put into one of the plugins to celebrate October.
Me: Yeah, hopefully it was just that
We continued playing for a little while longer before we all had to go for dinner. I convinced myself that Ben was right, it was just a joke put in by one of the plugins developers to scare players. Everyone else was either still eating or hanging out with their families when I went back to my room. I logged into the server again to do some more work on the duplicator before we played the next day. I finished up one of the several duplicators that made up the larger one and put in a TNT to test it. As a couple pieces went flying downwards into the dirt I celebrated, we were making progress. That excitement was short-lived. I looked down to see how much was broken only to see the same black and blue skin with 7 pixels of face looking up at me. Even though the device was off, another TNT suddenly dropped down. As the explosion particles disappeared, so did 404. I decided to go to sleep and figure out what was going on the next day. 
=== The Investigation ===
After school I looked at the list of plugins on the server and wrote emails to the developers of each asking about 404. I only got one response, asking me for more information. I described the skin and they sent me a picture perfectly matching 404. I told them it was the exact model and asked what they knew. They then sent me one last message before blocking me. The message read "I don't know how this happened, but I can't be a part of it anymore. If you want more information then find it yourself. Good luck." I went into the server and saw that the hole created by the TNT I dropped had been covered up. I checked the logs but nobody had been on since we had played together the previous day. I continued on with my days as normal, playing with my friends on the server with no sight of the player. 
=== The Events ===
After another few weeks the duplicator was finally finished. It had 3 functions, normal movement, sending down TNT, or moving while duplicating. We had it on movement mode and were going to the area we wanted to excavate and the journey was going fine, at least at first. All of a sudden, even though there wasn't a storm, lightning struck a wood block that was in front of an observer. This caused a fire and thus a block update, which activated the TNT mechanism. We tried to stop it but the machine was way off because the TNT had gone off without that lever being flipped. Eventually we found a couple of key blocks and broke them to stop it, but there was already a lot of damage done, both to builds, farms, and the environment. We spent the next couple weeks repairing the damage while also asking around online how lightning could have struck. 
Ben: Hey guys, I found something weird in a cave under the castle
Mike: What is it?
Jess: Yeah what did you find?
Ben: Just come here
We all flew over to Ben's coordinates and go into the cave. He leads us to a room and as soon as me and Chris both our jaws drop. The wall directly parallel to the door is all black except for 7 gray pixels forming a face. The floor is made of black and blue wool in a striped pattern.
Chris: It's him
Chloe: Who?
Me: It's 404
Mike: The "player" you found was a room of colored wool?
Ben: Yeah, what's the deal with this 404 guy?
Me: His skin, it was black and blue and he had a face made of 7 gray pixels
Chris: Yeah, Tristan's right
Jess:
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