Plot

*For a more brief summary, see the Timeline.*

The full plot of The MC Story, Virtis Tales and The Minecrafters Story.

## Virtis' Creation

Joseph Forrest has a rough upbringing; he's isolated by his peers and therefore invisible. His parents get divorced and Joe goes to live with his dad, and spends his free time online enhancing his computer skills, to the point where he uses them for malicious intent such as stealing money. One night, Joe's dad sits him down to show him a quote from a movie, "There are no limits to what you can do, except the limits you place on your own thinking". This quote sparks a sudden motivation within Joe to plan a scheme he had previously been pondering, and proceeds to work for months on end, recruiting new friends and finishing up a plan on his wall. His scheme is titled, The Virtis Project.

Two years later, Joseph and his team, Malcolm Lang, Vlad Hough, Steffan Hibbert, and Lillie Sweet, rent a warehouse to work on The Virtis Project, each member with different roles. They also recieve help from online individuals, although two of them act totally ambiguous, named 4534 and 3123. The former is bossy and demanding, while the latter is far more mysterious. The team assume they could be working with Virtis for their own goals.

Joseph Forrest shows Vlad his new hacks for Minecraft, expressing satisfaction toward the projects success. After Vlad checks on Malcolm, the latter heads into another room to chat with Lillie. Lillie shows frustration when Malcolm slows reluctance to help her out with something they agreed on. Steffan notices this suspicious behaviour and reports it to Joe, and Vlad discovers specific online helpers, such as 4534, 3123, and a new helper, etghtjh, making suspicious requests.

After an awkward encounter between Lillie and Joseph, Steffan inquires as to Vlad's actions; backing up the entire data of Virtis Project to the encrypted network for backup. Steffan tells Vlad to take a break to let him monitor the progress, but once on his computer, Steffan contacts the mysterious 'etghtjh', who is demanding him to transfer "it". Malcolm and Lillie meet again, the latter revealing she has remotely accessed the entire database on a phone, but still Malcolm is reluctant to stand by Lillie do due all the progress over the last two years and doesn't want to break his loyalty code, but also knows the project is malicious and wrong, and therefore conflicted. Already suspicious over their recent actions, Joe and Steffan reveal themselves from the shadows and threaten the pair with knives, but Lillie threatens to use the phone to send the database to the authorities, having been a double agent all along. The four breakout into a large argument, Steffan defending Joe to not go to prison, Malcolm not wanting anymore involvement, Lillie scolding Malcolm for being a coward, and Joe cursing the pair.

   Vlad then bursts into the room, and calls out Steffan for using his computer to agree to transfer the database to etghtjh, essentially selling them out. Joe is betrayed, and Steffan pulls out a phone and threatens to send the final decryption key to etghtjh, revealing that he had somehow been forced. The four continue shouting at each other, before Joe's rage builds up, reinforced with his childhood trauma, and violently launches the knife ahead of him. The knife only just misses Malcolm and Lillie when they duck, but jams into Steffan's shoulder, screaming in pain. Everyone is shocked, but violence then breaks out when Joe rushes towards Steffan, and Vlad rushes in to stop it. Steffan then presses send, and so does Lillie. Three hours later, Joe is seemingly alone in the warehouse, having smashed the last of the computers in it. He then picks up his passport, and slowly leaves the warehouse. He reluctantly looks back, but presses forward telling himself to "move on", and walks into the sunset.

Lillie and Malcolm, having sent the evidence, are summoned by the court and forced to come up with a solution, and the duo form Anti Virtis amongst themselves. etghtjh, secretly a hacker going by the alias Perseus, had coerced the gang to give him access to all of the TVP's work so that he and his two partners, Yldir and Nodis could use it as the foundation to begin their own mass hacking project. The trio spend years perfecting the code and take the name of Virtis.
The Virtis Project modifications/hacks end up all across the internet, though generally not being able to be indexed by search engines. Several other modifications were created as well, and sometime afterwards, these modifications also ended up on the deep web.

## Mob Destructor's reign on Owner's Minecraft Server

Mob\_Destructor, a Minecraft player and griefer, had been keeping watch over The Virtis Project's (TVP's) work through their secret help forums, and managed to acquire a Minecraft name-masker hack of theirs from the deep web, and used a VPN to hide his IP Address, to assume control over his chosen server target. With the hack, Mob Destructor can remain anonymous and unbannable. M\_D, on the target server, which is Owner's server, receives help from player Anfinious in locating and accessing the main deep web hacks left behind by TVP to take over Owner's server. His mysterious actions are brought to the attention of Owner by a new player with the username Poop, but prefers the alias Red, and Owner confronts Mob Destructor, however Mob Destructor successfully kills him in a battle. Owner respawns and tells Red that Anfinious is suspicious due to being around the mysterious player often.

At a jail on the outskirts of the main city, an inmate called PottyMit\_99, better known by his nickname Gold, collects parts to construct a bow and crafting table, enabling him to escape during a cell inspection, and scavenges a helmet from a guard. Gold sprints past Frost, another prisoner, and Anfinious, recently imprisoned by Owner on suspicion of working with a hacker. Now in possession of the deep web hacks, Mob\_Destructor takes over the server, wrecking havoc across the main city, resulting in many player's demise in the new hardcore-enabled world. A faction of players who live in the snow biome are attacked and killed, and the sole survivor: Calious, escapes. Owner escapes via a mine track, finding himself de-opped in the process, and decides to depart the server.

Simultaneously, Red, having met with Gold, explore a secret path underground within reach of the spawn point. In search of resources, Red unearths a chestplate and some leggings from a chest, but the duo find themselves vulnerable to a lava cave-in. Luckily, Gold and Red retreat to the surface, almost becoming prey to some oncoming creepers. As they reunite at the spawn point after escaping death, player Trock joins, completely oblivious to the current situation. Mob Destructor, having reduced the player count to as few as he pleases, switches up his game.

Mob Destructor confronts Trock, who has just met up with Gold and Red, and continuously makes them perform tasks for him for his own amusement, such as building several structures only to burn them down. Trock, Red and Gold team up with the snow tribe escapee, Calious, and another new player called Friendly, to take down Mob Destructor.  Eventually, the crew entrap Mob\_Destructor, and his henchman Frost flees. They force Mob Destructor to surrender, however, he plays along and pretends to turn over a new leaf, acting now as a regular member of the server and responsible admin. Mob Destructor frees Anfinious, who returns in an attempt to assist Mob\_Destructor. The pair are outed by the crew, resulting in two simultaneous battles. Trock battles Mob\_Destructor. Gold and Red battle Anfinious at the Giant Hole Site, a server landmark containing a pit which has been modified to act as a Nether portal, signifying hell being beneath the earth. Mob Destructor traps Trock within a mod-protected room, meaning Trock cannot break any of the blocks. The other fight results in Gold's death at the hands of Anfinious, and Anfinous' demise at the hands of Red, who had kicked him into the pit.

Anfinious' corpse ends up in the Nether. Having escaped the room, Trock reunites with the team and new player Perfume\_Crandy in order to protect a village from zombies via a wall, in return for information on the player Frost, M\_D's former ally who has taken refuge in the Nether, as discovered by Calious. Mob\_Destructor builds a factory and forces other survivors of the server into labour for his own amusement. Frost attacks the factory and in retaliation, M\_D sends the slaves into the Nether. Most slaves get killed in the Nether from traps and mobs, and a ghast shoots Frost off the castle, killing him once he hits the bottom. M\_D soon learns that Frost recovered Anfinious' body, and used mods to establish and NPC army of him. He utilises the army to his own advantage, and is able to fully command them.

With his new army, M\_D commands them to construct a round ship called the Death Destructor, which he planned to launch with the zeppelin plugin. With the village protected, but no information on Frost, the heroes Trock, Red, Friendly, Calious and Perfume Crandy travel to a nearby church, where Red and Perfume Crandy, having fallen in love, get an in-game wedding. The wedding is cut short by the original Anfinious NPC that attempts to kill Red as revenge. Nonetheless, the NPC is fended off by the group, allowing the wedding to be concluded. Following the completion of the Death Destructor, the initial launch takes place, only for a player called Mysterious One to ignite uncounted amounts of explosives, tearing the ship in half as if plummets into the terrain. Returning to the server, Owner finds himself stripped of his privileges.

Mob Destructor takes the original Anfinious NPC as his right hand man. While the other NPCs return to rebuilding the Death Destructor, Mob Destructor finishes constructing his 'Temple of Doom' and brings Trock, Red, Owner, Calious, Friendly and Perfume Crandy to it, seperating them into three different rooms in pairs to fight off waves of monsters. Trock and Red however destroy the Temple with TNT enabling everyone to escape. A player called Lines joins and Mob Destructor manipulates him into turning against the players. Lines lures Trock and Red to a trap that sends them plummeting into a bottomless pit. Before falling into the void, they grab onto leftover ladders on either side, but a spider from a nearby cave jumps down onto Red, causing him to fall off the ladder and into the void, along with the spider. Trock escapes to the surface. On the surface, the rest of the crew discover the Death Destructor is being reconstructed, and Mob Destructor sends Lines to deal with the rest. Trock, Calious and Friendly agree to take the Death Destructor down.

They each change their skins to match Anfinious' NPC to blend in while they sneak to the ship. They successfully gain entry but are noticed by Mob Destructor, who orders the NPCs to attack them and prematurely launches the ship. Meanwhile, Owner and Perfume Crandy, rebuilding the destroyed house, are attacked by Lines.
Trock, Calious and Friendly Friendly duel Mob Destructor and the main Anfinious NPC, but Mob Destructor leads them back into his room where he shows them he has captured Red, having teleported him out of the void as he required a test subject; a person to shoot down out of the Death Destructor's TNT cannon as a creative way of finally getting rid of them. Mob Destructor successfully then captures the three, and demonstrates his plan with another Anfinious NPC by launching him out of a TNT cannon; the explosion impacts the house where Owner and Perfume Crandy have captured Lines. Owner persuades Lines to join them, and the latter brings them to the Death Destructor and are teleported onboard, but Lines then reveals he tricked them so Mob Destructor could capture them. Now with all the heros contained, Mob Destructor reveals he will shoot all the 'test subjects' out of the TNT cannon, which convinces Lines that he is mad and not the legimiate owner. Before Anfinious NPC can launch Red, Lines stops the process and frees the heros, but Anfinious stabs Lines in the back and escapes the ship along with Mob Destructor. Perfume Crandy fills half the ship up with TNT, and Lines declares he will redeem himself by staying onboard to detonate it, having been fatally wounded by Anfinious anyway. The heros exit the ship by jumping to water below and Lines ignites the TNT, killing himself and tearing the ship in half and causing it to crash into the terrain.

Mob Destructor decides to abandon the Death Destructor plan, and instead confronts Owner, tempting him with the offer of returning the server, should he comply with his every command. Owner accepts and turns on the team, using the Wither in an attempt to kill them, which ultimately fails. M\_D's friend Meetin' also works with Owner to eliminate the crew.
Microsoft acquire Mojang, and in the process uncover an old scrapped update planned to include Herobrine; the acquistion somehow causes them to release the update. Many servers, including Owner's, update to it. Owner eventually betrays Mob Destructor and goes back to the main crew. Herorbrine summons in the world quietly, and begins to navigate with invisibility, and is neutral. He takes items from players and gives them to others in need of them, saving them from various incidents. Herobrine didn't always use invisiblity, and was starting to get noticed by the players; they referred to him as the "white/hollow-eyed-guy". At one point Red and Owner attacked him, and he turned rogue against them. Herobrine was programmed to always eventually turn hostile to everyone, and he eventually did. He kills Owner and Meetin whilst they are in an underground ravine called the Enlightenment cave, part of the Herobrine patch, and then breaks up a fight between Mob Destructor and Calious. He uses beams fired from his arms to de-op Mob Destructor and kill Calious, before going invisible and stabbing Mob Destructor in the back.

At this point, Herobrine had become notorious on the Minecraft community after appearing on numerous servers and singleplayer worlds, and an online news article was released informing players that Mojang will soon issue a fix to remove him, due to his immense power.

Trock, Red and Friendly are the only remaining players, still in the ravine, and Herobrine approaches them, separating Trock from the rest. He finds the Herobrine Chamber at the bottom of the Enlightenment cave, which requires the Herobrine orb to access, which appears to be the main objective of the patch. Trock reunites with Red and Friendly on the surface and the three are redirected by a villager to the ruins of the Death Destructor. They enter it and find the required orb, but Herobrine fights them, able to heal any injuries sustained. Perfume Crandy, having been recently inactive to move house in real life, then approaches him from behind and stabs him to death; once killed he can only respawn after ten minutes. They take the orb to the chamber, the journey itself taking ten minutes, allowing Herobrine to respawn and kill Perfume Crandy. Trock, Red and Friendly enter the chamber and step on the pressure plate inside; this permanently kills Herobrine on the server and grants the three operating powers. Sometime later, an update is released restoring the game to normal. Herobrine's intervention on the server finally allowed the players' war with Mob Destructor to end, as he no longer possessed operating powers and Trock, Red and Friendly now did.

Soon afterwards, they resurrect their dead friends, including Meetin' and Owner, as well as the servers dead players, and remove Hardcore mode. Apologising for their actions, Owner and M\_D come to terms, as the server is peacefully restored to its former state, as Microsoft remove Herobrine and the deep web hacks.

## Virtis prepare the Purge

The crew on Owner's server celebrate, and although having seemingly made up with Owner, Mob Destructor storms off in anger over his loss, having just pretended to be sorry. He is unknowingly watched by Perseus, Yldir and Nodis, who've yet to begin their purge at this time. Perseus explains the purge will begin on Owner's server because Mob Destructor used Virtis-Project mods from Joseph Forrest's old team to hack the server, which caused the server to gain attention and a bad reputation as a result. They perform a test called server reversion, which distorts the server and undos everything, before it crashes; the server has been reverted to the point before Mob Destructor's take over. They initiate another test called AI replication, which brings all the players of the specific time of the server back to their respective spots, with their original actions replicated by AI.

The AI replicated Mob Destructor is seen unleashing his modifications to gain control of the server, and unleashes havoc. The server stabilises, allowing real players to rejoin, which cancels out their AI and allows them to take over. The real Mob Destructor rejoins, confused as to what's happening, but quickly deduces the server has been reverted back to a previous state. To prove this correct, he tests his operating powers, which he had at this time, which to his surprise, works, and deems this his second chance to take over. The server reversion also reverted operating status of the players to what it was at the time. Owner discovers the server is in jeopardy, and by accessing the console which he can now only view, sees M\_D, Frost and Anfinious as OPs. Owner contacts Mojang about Mob Destructor regaining control and asks them to fix it, but Perseus intercepts the email and poses as Mojang, and replies that Mob Destructor has used the new server-locking technology to pass his powers onto Frost and Anfinious after his in-game death. Owner hires Titan 309, and old server regular, from Planet Minecraft to eliminate the three players, and Mob Destructor goes to meet Trock, Red and Gold. Virtis, not worried about Mob Destructor using their server lock as they have other things to attend to, leave the server, but not before Perseus de-ops Mob Destructor, as they don't want him in charge.

After Trock, Gold and Red, controlled by AI, encounter M\_D during the replicated events of before, the real three players join and take control. M\_D attempts to force them to work for him, but discovers he is drained of his powers, as unbeknowsnt to everyone, Virtis stripped him of OP as their intention wasn't to help him. Mob Destructor is then killed by Titan\_309, who has accepted Owner's plea for help. He explains he is on a mission, but doesn't explain what, however, he urges the three to join him. As the quest continues, Titan explains he had previously encountered Calious, before Mob took over long ago, and tasks themselves with locating him.

On the quest for Calious, the group take heavy fire from a player housed at a large tree, who is infact Frost. In retaliation, Titan engages in a battle against him, resulting in Frost's retreat into the Nether. Ontop of the tree, Titan unearths a chestplate from a chest, and decides to save it. Titan calls the other three to follow him into the Nether to eliminate Frost. Inside the Nether, Trock and Red are assigned to watch the ground, whilst Titan and Gold venture through the lava, equipped with fire resistant potions, towards a giant Nether fortress, where Titan believes Frost is possibly hiding.

The duo locate Frost at the other end of the bridge, and engage in a brief battle, sending Gold plummeting down into the lava. A Ghast shoots at portions of the bridge, sending Frost down into the lava likewise, but survives under the influence of an enchanted golden apple. Alive, Gold retreats to land in fear of losing the fire resistance soon. As Titan and Frost resume the fight from different heights, Frost retreats underneath the lava, before the main crew reunite and decide to venture down a dark path in the fortress, leading them through another portal toward a guardian temple, littered with the vicious guardians. Under threat, Titan leads the crew under water to kill the elder guardian. In the process, Gold goes missing, as the remaining trio surface at a nearby island. They encounter Frost, and after a brief battle ensues, he retreats on a boat, influencing Titan to follow him. Approaching a nearby island, Frost flees into a cave, and Titan follows him. TNT is ignited, blocking off the cave's entrance with rubble, preventing Trock, Gold (who has reunited with the crew, with the explanation that he left the scene to prevent his own death) and Red from entering. Above the cave, the trio encounter Calious, who reveals Frost was a mass griefer prior to the takeover, and was planned to be banned by Owner, but didn't get the chance to before Mob Destructor's uprising. A brief duel occurs beneath the surface. Frost destroys Titan's armour, and prepares to finish him, only to find Calious behind him, who swiftly stabs him in the back, killing him. With a lack of armour, Titan equips the Golden chestplate he found earlier, but is shocked to see Calious shot in the head, killing him instantly. Titan, and the other three, pursue the killer, whom Titan's learns is the third and final member of his hit list.

The Third Target, reveals himself from the shadows as Anfinious. To protect the others, Titan orders the other three down the cave, before challenging Anfinious. As the duel resumes, a creeper intervenes, immobilising Titan, enabling Anfinious to escape to the surface and toward a desert pyramid. Titan pursues him, and enters the trap room below the pyramid, but unwillingly activates the trap, igniting tons of TNT. In shock, Titan is oblivious to Anfinious creeping up behind him, who swiftly stabs in the back through his chestplate before fleeing. Simultaneously, Trock, Gold and Red discover a book authored by Anfinious, and decide to catch up to him. The trio arrive at the pyramid trap room, only sheer moments after Titan is stabbed.

Titan, seemingly accepting of his inevitable demise, asks of the other three to gear up and kill Anfinious, for the good of the server, before dying himself. Trock, Red and Gold proceed to loot the remains of the destroyed chests. Red gives Trock his chestplate, who has just looted Titan's diamond sword, and Gold unearths 6 diamonds to make a sword for himself and Red. In search of Anfinious, the trio travel through a large corridor used by Anfinious, which leads them to his large base, consisting of wool stairs and a giant hole in the ground. Gold tours up the large set of stairs, but only to find Anfinious at its peak. Anfinious attacks Gold with TNT, destroying a part of the platform sending him down to the ground, ultimately destroying his helmet. Having heard the clashes of swords, Trock and Red rush up the stairs, but Red is also sent plummeting into the ground when Anfinious launches TNT in his direction. With his friends in no condition to fight, Trock takes up the fight against Anfinious, alone.

As the two prepare for battle, Anfinious reveals his possession of a diamond chestplate, and the fight ensues as Trock leaps across to his enemy. Red and Gold rush toward the fight, just as Trock has been disarmed, but in rescue, Red throws his wooden shovel in Trock's direction, allowing him to smash it across Anfinious' head, sending him down into the giant hole and into the void. Curious at the lack of a death message, Gold remembers Owner utilised it as a gateway to the Nether, swaying the three to jump in after him. Upon arrival in the Nether dimension, they find themselves infront of tons of TNT placed by Anfinious, who takes shelter at a bridge. Anfinious ignites the TNT, but Trock remembers he looted three enderpearls from Titan, and gives them to the others, allowing them to teleport behind Anfinious and kick him toward the explosion, killing him. The console server-lock breaks, and control is automatically restored to Owner. He teleports the three back to the over world in the city, as hardcore is removed and all the past players rejoin, except MD, Frost and Anfinious, who have all been banned.

Trock is shocked to see Titan and Calious greet him, but Owner joins the game explaining he has regained control of the server and has removed hardcore mode, thus allowing Titan and Calious to respawn. To discover the truth, Trock asks Owner what has happened, to which he explained MD's hacks locked the server until his "chosen protected players" were killed, these being MD, Frost and Anfinious. He then reveals he asked Mojang to remove MD's hacks, believing they succeeded, when it was actually Virtis who were responsible, and then asked Titan on planet minecraft to eliminate the "protected three". Titan, Red, Calious and Trock then walk away to help the other citizens rebuild the city, but Gold remains stood infront of Owner, ready to receive his punishment for escaping the prison back before the take over, as it was never brought up since then due to the battles going on. However, Owner declares it no longer matters, and rewards the five with operating privileges. As the server returns to its original state again, Friendly joins.

## The Virtis Purge begins

Titan leaves the server, and sometime later, Red and Gold change their usernames from Poop and PottyMit\_99 respectively. Trock, Red. Calious and Gold have also updated their skins to include their head tattoos with the first letter of their names.

Over the course of the next three months, Trock hid several operating supplies in an obsidian bunker far away in preparation for any sort of server emergency, which they can use in-case of another server take over, and hides two books containing its location in two chests in a building at the main city, and also leaves a false book containing false coordinates in-case it falls into the wrong hands. Virtis fully assume control of the server, deleting everyone's player data, and placing player Razer63 in charge with restricted operating powers while they go to take over other servers.

    Virtis only granted Razer restricted powers so they can maintain their dominance. Razer then forms an army, through deception, and all share the same skin to signify their unity, killing any opposing players. The power-mad Virtis want to control gaming under their own rule.

## The Impact of the Purge

On a random Minecraft server, Virtis appear and move seven structures from the server's city into strategic points around it. They announce their rule and inform the admins one of them can remain partially in charge, but the admins retaliate and refuse to cooperate. Perseus, Yldir and Nodis initiate 'annihilation', starting by turning the admin building into sand, and then activating rapid TNT and arrow cannons from the seven structures, decimating the server.

Other games have been badly affected: Terraria has many servers where all bosses dominate the world, servers which lack a world and some with players in charge. A zombie survival game has also had its difficulty extremely amplified.

Virtis like to maintain their dominance and therefore only grant gaming players limited powers. They also allow them to make key changes to the server in order to cause havoc, which Virtis picture as perfect for their take over. Many servers become ruled by armies, and some become the complete opposite of what they were originally.

## The Link

Sometime later, two unknown individuals are investigating "a link" Virtis have been working on, and one of the connected Minecraft servers in this "link" is play.VIRZ.net. A player called Peron connects to this server and is shocked to find it barren and empty. He quickly runs into a zombie which sprints at him, shocking Peron. He manages to find a sword at a well and kills the zombie, but a player called Michalak emerges from the well and threatens Peron, but when the latter explains he doesn't know what is going on, as it is meant to be a mini games server, Michalak says its a zombie server now. He doesn't have time to explain as a horde closes in. Michalak runs to the well and instructs Peron to follow him, but the latter can barely move due to becoming infected. As the horde closes in, Michalak must defend Peron and himself.

Peron and Michalak have found all but one ingredient to make a cure bottle for Michalak to cure his infection. They loot a house but get incapacitated by players B1ll1e and Ab3l, and taken to the survival camp The Zeta. They introduce the camp, how they are a big community and do well with their own farm and supplies, and say they can join the community in return with helping them with daily errands. Michalak is quick to accept the offer as they completed his cure bottle, but Peron is hesitant as it seems fishy that they have essentially forced them into the community. Michalak goes on lookout duty and a player named Milky\_bar approaches Peron and hands him a book before fleeing. A guard notices this. Peron reads the book in his dorm and is shocked by its contents. He reads on to find out that he was chosen by Milky-bar to be given the book as he resides in his old dorm, and pinpoints a chest he hid there. Peron finds the chest and takes out an invisibility potion, and Peron says he can use it to fulfil what is said in the book. He drinks the potion and sneaks into the staff only area, only to find Milky\_bar strapped to a table and being interrogated by B1ll1e and Ab3l over the book he gave Peron. They reiterate the warning they gave about keeping quiet about their operations, and as punishment, a lever is pulled, which opens a block in the ground with lava in it, and also releases the table restraints, causing Milky\_bar to slide off the table and into the lava, and perishes without a death message. Peron watches in horror and B1ll1e says to Ab3l they must find Peron.

Peron retrieves Michalak from guard duty and pulls him to a room, where he explains the situation using Milky\_bar's book as evidence. Peron explains the Zeta secretly kill players for loot, and Milky\_bar noticed this and investigated. MB then went onto try and start a rebellion, and hid a stash of TNT in his dorm and dug a tunnel underneath the camp ato plant it all to escape. Peron and Michalak complete the tunnel and place all the TNT, but Peron forgot the redstone torch and goes back to the dorm to get it, while Michalak digs up to get everyone's attention at the main ground. The camp members, B1ll1e and the snipers, all hunting Peron and Michalak down after B1ll1e declared them as traitors, aim their guns at him. Meanwhile Peron is found in the dorm by a player named Maxw3ll, but manages to convince him to join his side by handing him the book. Michalak tries to convince everybody to join him in the uprising, and Maxw3ll comes and aims his gun at Michalak, pretending he is on B1ll1e's side. Maxw3ll then shoots B1ll1e in the abdomen, and is gunned down by snipers as a result, triggering an all out war in the camp as survivors choose their side and gun each other down. Michalak hides behind the stage and an injured B1ll1e wanders off, as Peron ignites the TNT, causing a gigantic explosion in the camp.

After the Zeta is destroyed by Peron, he reunites with Michalak and rushes out of the camp during the battle. Michalak supporters follow them, as well as Zeta supporters keen on killing them. Ab3l and B1ll1e, the latter wounded after being shot, instruct those on their side to hunt down the rebels, with some on horses. Ab3l then says to B1ll1e that he will turn the Zeta into a forced labour camp. Michalak is shot in the leg with an arrow, and two rebels defend Peron while he helps but are both killed by a stampeding horse and zombies respectively. Peron and Michalak finds rebels defedning themselves in a small make-shift hut, and help by distracting the Zeta members, allowing the rebels in the hut to fight back and escape into the woods. Peron and Michalak go to follow, but are cut off by B1ll1e, who shoots Peron. In retaliation, Michalak shoots her thrice in the chest, and she stumbles to the floor and is devoured by zombies. Ab3l and a zeta member capture the pair and confine them to cages, with Ab3l blaming them for turning the zeta into a prison camp. The cages are tied to horses and ride off back to Zeta.

Dr P3, being pursued by Scorpion's army members, is rescued by two other players who take him down to their underground base; they run through an underground tunnel and drop into a pit, with their falls broken by water before falling into minecarts and riding off the broken track into the base. The players then disguise the track by fixing it via a command block. The duo introduce themselves as SGS6B, who prefers to be called Seth, and Sar1ta who looks after things in the base. They reveal they rescue rebels, and when Dr\_P3 states he is looking for Blue's old acquaintances: the old operators of the server, Sar1ta reveals they are them. At a table, they discuss what happened with Blue, and that he went to go and rescue rebels even with barely any tools. Finally, they ask for Dr\_P3's help on an assault on Scorpion's base.

P3 agrees to the plan and he meets a base member called Peet\_er who plans to fight with them. Sometime later they finish preparing, and Dr\_P3, SGS6B, Sar1ta and Peet\_er use boats and invisibility potions to raid Scorpions base, and advance toward the his throne room, all the while a fifth intruder climbs to the room's roof on the outside. The invisibility potions wear off and the four burst into the room, held at gunpoint by army members with bows and plague arrows. The fifth intruder bursts in through the ceiling, and crashes to the floor injured, and turns out to be Blue, having survived earlier. Scorpion decides that they are capable fighters and decides to spare them to take them for initiation instead of killing them. Seth then tries attacking Scorpion with his sword, and is promptly shot through the head by a guard, killing him instantly. Blue however recovers the plague arrow used to kill Seth, and shoots Scorpion, dooming him to die.

They are then stripped of their weapons and armour by Scorpion's guards, and sent off to initation camp in a cage tied to a horse. Meanwhile, Scorpion's chair is turned into a life support machine; a dispenser above it constantly shooting healing potions, to keep him alive and constantly delay his death after contracting the plague from being shot by Blue.

At the camp, Sar1ta blames Blue for getting them captured, but defends himself by saying somebody had to do it. The four, and many other prisoners, are cuffed and placed in formation, and a guard announces to them that they will be held in cells until either submitting to Scorpion's rule, or being forcibly turned. In Blue and Dr\_P3's cell, they exchange a brief discussion where P3 defends Blue, the latter blaming himself, by saying that he has weakened Scorpion and they would've been captured anyway. Blue talks about how he escaped the station incident; digging down and hiding until they pursued P3, and heading straight for the castle afterwards. Finally, Blue says that if they escape and anything happens, he wants to revisit his base room a final time.

Later, Sar1ta tells P3 and Blue of a collaborative escape in the works, planned by all the inmates, and should try to find anything to aid it, all the while still blaming Blue, and now P3, and swaying Peet\_er to believe her. Blue and P3 find an inmate serving water, and takes some with the intention of using it to swim out of the cell after puncturing a two-block hole in the wall. Sar1ta and Peet\_er cause a distraction by getting two inmates to agree to fight, so they won't notice P3 and Blue digging out the wall. Blue digs a two block gap in his cell wall facing the outside, and pours the water, with every inmate escaping out this way.

The scene turns into chaos as every inmate runs from the flying guards, using lightning and plague arrows. Sar1ta ends up electrocuted and shot in the head, killing her. A guard manages to shoot Blue in the leg with a plague arrow, dooming him. Peet\_er and P3 notice this, but Peet\_er runs off while P3 goes back to help. P3 drags Blue to the woods and to the station, keeping him alive via a few potions acquired from the prison medic until they reach the underground base, and into Blue's room where he previously requested to go. With no options left and P3 in tears, Blue succumbs to the plague and starts to disintegrate. Meanwhile in the real world, the ambiguous people note that Virtis are opening the link.

Moments away from death, Blue remembers he previously stored a Totem of Undying prior to the purge in the chest next to him, and reaches in for it; death is averted and he is cured of the plague. Blue is astonished it actually worked, and only tried it to see if it would. He speculates that it countered the plague either because the plague was coded before Totem's were added to the game, or the plague actually killed him and left his body and the totem then revived him in an instant. Suddenly, earth quakes occur, and the ambiguous people note that the opening of the link is causing it as well as multiple portals manifesting in worlds. Blue and Dr\_P3 enter a portal to Peron and Michalak, killing Ab3l and a henchman to rescue them. They deduce their two servers have merged, and agree to wipe out the remnants of the Zeta and release their prisoners. Following this, Scorpion, and owner of the zombies server: Icarus, establish a communication channel via the Link, allowing them to communicate. The ambiguous people pick up the signal and amplify it to P3, Peron, Blue and Michalak; the four players being the only hope. This allows the four to hear Scorpion and Icarus' conversation, but the two being able to see all Link activity makes them aware of this, and announce themselves to the players, and ambiguous people. Icarus and Scorpion reveal Virtis left them with some tools, and summon zombies and army NPCs to attack the players; they take refuge in a nearby abandoned house.

As the players hold the zombies and NPCs off, the ambiguous people talk with Scorpion and Icarus, the latter two revealing they know who the ambiguous people are. Scorpion and Icarus also reveal they are 4534 and 3123 from the Origins Arc, and since they were demanding with their requests, Virtis opted their servers for testing in the Link. The ambiguous people deduce that the Link is merely an experiment to see if it works; Virtis plan to merge all servers should it work to create a giant Link. The ambiguous people cut themselves from the communication channel and establish a new one to the players; the four can hear both the ambiguous people on one channel, and Scorpion and Icarus on the other, though both parties can't hear each other. Via Milky\_bar's book, Michalak tells the ambiguous people that the server consoles are locked to the admins, Scorpion and Icarus (much like Mob Destructor locked the console to Frost and Anfinious back in Season Five). This means they must kill the two to allow the ambiguous people to use their Virtis technology to hack the consoles and shut down the Link.

As the crew are about to die inside the house, overwhelmed by zombies and NPCs, the floor opens when pistons pull it back, sending them plummeting to safety. It's also revealed that besides portals, worlds are connected at ungenerated ends. Ready to finally kill the four, Icarus teleports them to outside his tower and summons more zombies; the crew hold them off until TNT detonates outside the tower, letting the crew in. Inside, they push Icarus out his own window, landing on a lone iron bar which pierces his body and kills him. The ambiguous people begin to hack Icarus' server console. Scorpion notices Icarus gone and demands the tower to be defended. After looting Icarus' tower, claiming a diamond chestplate for each, they enter a portal and charge to Scorpion's castle via boats.

With many members of Scorpion's army dead, the army become torn between defending or betraying him, causing them to become divided and fight each other, all the while, the escapees from the initiation camp also arrive in boats, assisting the crew. The crew arrive in Scorpion's room, and when a guard attempts to kill them, his skin is reverted to normal and stops flying. Peet\_er steps out from the shadows, revealing he entered Scorpion's control room in the back and managed to revert the army template, stripping all of them of their powers and reverting their skins. Peet\_er goes on to reveal he was responsible for saving them from the house and blowing up the enterance to Icarus' base, having navigated the servers with the portals, just because he regretted leaving Blue; Blue forgives him.

Scorpion, fed up with Virtis' limitations posed on him, gives up his Link password to the ambiguous people and allows himself to succumb to the plague and disintegrate. With the server locks gone, the ambiguous people gain full control, and detonate the castle; the four and Peet\_er jump out the back window, landing in the ocean below. Later, they shut down the Link, seperating Blue and P3 from Peron and Michalak, whom salute eachother from their own worlds before being separated. Peron and Michalak then continue to survive in their server, and Blue and P3 live in the underground base, pondering the events which occured. They're glad to have met each other and hug.

Meanwhile, the ambiguous people log into Scorpion's Link account to destroy the Link, planning to take the evidence to court, to advance Anti-Virtis. The two ambiguous people are revealed as Lillie Sweet and Malcolm Lang.

## Formation of Anti Virtis

Lillie Sweet and Malcolm Lang take the evidence to the court, where they meet the judge that assigned them to deal with Virtis. Lillie hands the judge the documents and requests he assign help for Anti Virtis. Days later, they recieve a reply in the mail; the judge agrees to use his power to assign help for them. Anti Virtis gains traction and becomes a large group of people consisting of government agents, technical professionals, regular citizens and good hackers.

On Owner's server, Razer63, now having formed an army, shows his true colours as a short-tempered and angry boss, the army members having no other choice but to follow. Razer discovers Trock's book pinpointing the location of the emergency operating supplies, but unbeknownst to him, it is the false book that pinpoints the wrong place.

## The Fight against Razer

After being on a blacklist for three weeks, Trock, Red and Gold finally rejoin Owner's server. The climb a hill to look over the destroyed and looted city, before a player called TubMetalKey sneaks up behind Trock and strikes him with one of his two swords, sending Trock down the side of the hill and landing at a lower point of the hill. Red fights with Tub over his left hand sword, and Gold is kicked back when he tries to grab his right hand sword, allowing Tub to attempt to strike Red with his other sword, only for Red to counter this by grabbing it resulting in a power struggle over the swords. Gold gets up and trips up Tub who falls down the hill toward Trock, with Red then dropping the sword he snatched from Tub down to Trock. A brief battle between Tub and Trock ensues with Trock being overpowered by Tub easily, with his sword flying out of his hand and up toward Gold, who is sliding down the hill. As soon as Tub goes to kill Trock, Gold grabs Trock's sword and jumps down onto the platform, lodging the sword into the side of Tub's head in the process, killing him. After Tub's corpse falls off the hill, the trio discover hardcore is back, and speculate the server has been taken over by Virtis, a hacking group recently in the news for taking over the gaming community. More players with the same skin as TubMetalKey then appear at the bottom of the hill, looking up at Trock, Red and Gold ready to engage.

The mysterious gang all begin to climb the hill, while some stay back setting up TNT cannons whilst firing arrows. Only armed with one Iron Sword looted from TubMetalKey, the trio Trock, Red and Gold attempt to come up with a plan in haste. After a TNT block destroys part of the hill, dropping blocks of dirt and stone, Trock devises a plan, and sends Red to collect all the dirt and stone rubble, before digging down into the hill and effectively building a tunnel toward one of the cannons. Confused, the gang all go to the mountain to find the trio, as soon as they dig up to a cannon and set up a small wall infront of the cannon made of the dirt and stone Red looted. Red then fires multiple TNT blocks at the hill, killing several players in the gang, whilst being defended from their arrows via the wall. Red then runs out of TNT, and the gang fight back using another TNT cannon, which destroys a tree allowing Red to loot its wood, before fleeing off with Trock and Gold. The gangs leader, named Razer63 questions one of the gang why the trio are still alive, to which he responds "we tried". Frustrated, Razer uses operating commands to spawn a diamond sword and kills the gang member with by cramming the sword through his head, before ordering the rest to pursue the trio. The trio are in a cave, where Red has made two stone swords thanks to the wood he looted, and gives one to Trock. They descend some stairs and find a prison, and much to their shock find Mob Destructor imprisoned.

Mob Destructor explains what happened with Virtis' take over and the situation with Razer63 and his army, searching for Trock's operating supplies he created and hid before. The trio free M\_D from his cell, needing any help they can get to prepare and retrieve the operating supplies before Razer and his army can. Meanwhile in the destroyed city, a player desperately tries looting anything he can, before Razer63 shoots and kills him with a bow, killing any not in his army. A member of his army informs him they are struggling to find the former operators, only to be scolded by Razer. As Trock, Gold, Red and M\_D dig for items in a cave, they are attacked by mobs as soon as Razer and the army find traces of them at the underground prison, leading them to locate and surround the crew.

Owner, Calious and Friendly having witnessed Razer63's army pursue Trock, Red and Gold, search the plains biome for them. Beneath the surface in the wide open cave, Razer announces two of his men are at the location of the operating supplies, Calious' original home, and orders his men to hold swords over Trock, Red, Gold and Mob Destructor ready for the signal to murder them. Calious, Owner and Friendly dig down to the prison block, where Owner explores Mob Destructor's open cell and hides there when Razer's men run up the stairs and capture Friendly and Calious. Watching their capture through the nametags above the cave, Gold runs out of hope, however Trock, seemingly aware of something that would delay their execution, displays faith that they won't be killed. Red and Mob Destructor notice Trock's confidence. Recieving no answer from the supply searching team, Razer orders the execution, just as he is reported back to, with the revelation that the location of the supplies is false. Angered by this, Razer hastily orders the men to stop the execution, and ten seconds later, Owner digs into the cave from the ceiling, igniting TNT inside the cave.

Razer63 halts the execution of Trock, Red, Gold and Mob Destructor in order to interrogate them for the true location of the supplies. Just then, Owner digs into the cave, igniting tons of TNT effectively freeing the four, who run back out the prison and to the surface. Owner stays in the prison to free Calious and Friendly, but are locked in the cell by an army member. The trio then dig to the surface. Trock, Red, Gold and M\_D run for the city, where Trock had hidden the co-ordinates to the supplies. He soon reveals he managed to decieve them with a book somewhere in the main city falsely pinpointing the location, and speculates they found out about the supplies in the first place because Virtis leaked their PMs.

The four come under fire from the city's artillery cannon manned by Razer. red builds a wall to shield themselves, but to no avail when Razer destroys the wall with the cannon. Once at the surface, Owner reveals he looted a slime block from a dead army member, and says he previously installed a plugin to greatly enhance them. He jumps on the block, sending him flying toward the city. Before landing, he throws a TNT block at the cannon, destroying it, causing water to leak from it, which Owner uses to land safely. He then engages Razer directly in a sword fight. Overwhelmed and at near defeat, Razer spawns in a second diamond sword, and stabs Owner to death, just as the rest of the crew approach the enterance to the city.

Trock, Red, Gold, Calious, Friendly and Mob Destructor run into the city intending to retrieve the co-ordinates to the operating supplies. They are cornered into a house by Razer63's men, who orders more men to man the TNT cannons. A cannon shot destroys part of the ground sending Friendly into the underground tunneling system, where he is pursued by two army members. Trock and Calious go to flip three hidden switches to open the doors to the co-ordinates, while M\_D and Gold hold the army off with walls, while Red goes to kill each player at the cannons. M\_D and Gold become surrounded by army members at all four sides of the wall boxing them in, however, they shelter underground as Red shoots TNT from the cannons at the wall, killing all the army members in that area. M\_D and Gold reconcile with Trock and Calious who enter the co-ordinate room, containing two adjacent chests. Meanwhile, Friendly, still pursued by two army members, digs up the stone above him, allowing gravel to crush and kill both army members. One of the co-ordinate chests was sitting on the gravel above, which fell through, releasing the book in the process, allowing Friendly to retrieve a copy of the co-ordinates. Trock isn't concerned at the loss of a book, as they both contain the same co-ordinates. Trock takes the other book and then they all flee the city, but underground Friendly is captured and taken to Razer's base underground. Friendly refuses to give up the location, so Razer kills him and loots the book, discovering the true co-ordinates.

A day later, Trock, Red, Gold, Calious and Mob Destructor are heading toward the co-ordinates in an underground jungle tunnel, when Razer63 and his fleet of ships powered by the server's zeppelin plugin arrive at the jungle, Razer furiated at the 10,000 block distance of the supplies. After noticing the nametags of the former operators underground, Razer sends his men to attack. They breach the tunnel and attack from all angles, before a TNT explosion sends M\_D, Gold and Red down further into a small cave, pursued. Trock and Calious dig up. While being chased out of the cave, Red is shot in the arm, and rejoins M\_D and Gold in running out of the cave, before Razer shoots TNT from his cannon on the ship at them, causing a jungle fire. Then M\_D and Gold shoot Razer's men about to shoot and kill Trock and Calious in the temple. After the five reconcile, they decide to escape the fire in a small ship, with a cannon, left behind by an army member. They board the ship and shoot down Razer's ship before fleeing, with an irritated Razer promising to get them.

## Virtis' Downfall

Razer63 is recovered from the burning jungle by three army members in a ship, and after witnessing Razer murder one in anger, the other two begin comtemplating their loyalty to him. Razer commands them to speed up to ship, where they eventually catch up to Trock, Red, Gold, Calious and Mob Destructor in a forest biome. After exchanging TNT, the two ships crash at the spiked ice biome which houses the supplies, and the two army members fall off the ship and land of a tree far back, finally deciding to leave Razer due to him failing to deliver to promise of freedom and essentially using the army for his own benefit. The two halt the majority of the army and persuade them to abandon Razer's rule. At the crash site, Razer is attacked by the two army members, and then shot twice by one of the former operators, before Trock pushes him off the cliff. The two members catch up to the former operators explaining their motives, wanting the former operators, the rightful owners, to acquire the suppllies. They then however explain the remainder of the army have betrayed Razer and are pursuing the supplies for themselves in several of their own tribes, causing an all out war. The two army members are then killed before the others run off.

Razer survives with a Totem of Undying, and is then approached by Titan\_309, now an Anti Virtis member. Attempting to kill Titan, Razer is disarmed and forced to help him find his friends in return for protection. They reach the obsidian bunker housing the operating supplies, but are ambushed when TNT is launched at them.

In a scene of all out war, Trock, Red, Gold, Calious and Mob Destructor approach the temple built ontop the supplies, which are surrounded by obsidian. Trock and MD go to find another way around while Calious, Red and Gold attack the players at the temple head on to prevent them from digging into the temple. Though shortly successful, the trio become outnumbered and fall back. Trock and MD fall back into a house, and are attacked by two players, which they successfully kill and loot their diamond pickaxes, using them to break into the obsidian bunker. Before activating a bridge to cross the big gap between them and the supplies. MD attacks Trock, revealing to have deceived him all along in an attempt to get the supplies for himself and rule the server again. Before he can kill Trock, the latter pushes him into the pit and activates the bridge, trapping MD inside as he yells in anger and curses. Trock approaches the supplies.

Razer attempts to kill Titan, but is disarmed again, before Titan kills him by slicing his head. Titan loots Razer's diamond pickaxe and breaches the bunker and meets Trock.

Trock and Titan 309 reconcile, with Titan explaining his presense and motives, before the two gear up using the operating supplies, only for Mob Destructor to intervene, having escaped the pit via mining and picked up some supplies from the chest. Using a nether portal block, Mob Destructor sends the pair to the Nether, before going to the top of the temple, where he declares himself the leader yet again.

Virtis leaders Perseus, Yldir and Nodis then join the server, explaining they have arrived to take a break from taking over servers and want to let off some steam by slaughtering players on the first server they acquired. They begin a huge onslaught, stabbing players, causing explosions and using their own modifications to emit lightning and lava from their hands. Several army members die, and Red, Gold and Calious flee, but not before Nodis zaps Calious, killing him. In the Nether, Titan tells Trock they cannot beat the Virtis leaders, and have lost, but sends an emergency message to Anti Virtis, informing them Virtis are present on Owner's Minecraft server.

Nodis leaves the server and goes to Terraria, and Perseus intercepts the Anti Virtis communication channel. Perseus reveals to Lillie he was etghtjh, and forced Steffan Hibbert to hand him the Virtis Project foundation, which he then perfected over years with Nodis and Yldir, which gave them their power. Perseus then initiates a block over the entire Anti Virtis infastructure; nobody can access anything. Malcolm speculates this was a master hack. Out of options, Malcolm and Lillie return to the county court, asking for help, but the judge reveals his technicians can access the network, as can everyone, the block has been removed. Suddenly, Joseph Forrest enters the court, and reveals that since the lock was his original code, he removed it with ease. Joseph is regretful over his actions and has had years to contemplate them, and decides to rectify it by helping Anti Virtis.

Yldir decides to stay a while, appointing Mob Destructor as his henchman. In the Nether, Titan 309 tells Trock about the work of Anti Virtis and Yldir being the weakest link, but still believes Virtis will never be defeated. Underground, Red and Gold lament on the death of Calious, before Yldir teleports Mob Destructor to them. After a brief battle, M\_D decides to banish the duo to the nether, where they meet with Trock and Titan, with the four deciding to unite one last time and bring down Mob Destructor to give him one last sense of defeat, even if Yldir can just bring him back.

Mob Destructor requests for Yldir to spawn a Wither at the location of the former operators in the Nether; Trock, Red, Gold and Titan 309 evade several mobs pursuing them, and briefly battle the wither as they build a bridge across the fortress to the nether portal on the other side. In the overworld they are launched out of the void hole and proceed to the spiked ice biome in a ship. Mob Destructor commands the remains of Razer63's army after them causing a short war, in which the heros attempt to advance to the temple housing the operating supplies. With most of the army now killed, Yldir initiates a new power allowing him to rip open the world around him, effectively splitting the crew up. Having fell down a ravine, Red and Gold agree to use the bedrock Trock previously gave them to fulfill a task for him, while Titan goes to look for Trock.

Joseph commands the whole team focus their efforts on Yldir, the weakest link in Virtis, who is still on Owner's server. Trock lures Yldir into the supply cave where Trock convinces him to fight him properly without hacks and in survival mode, with the loser leaving the server forever. Out of pity for his presumed victory over Trock, Yldir grants Trock one last wish, in which Trock tells him to announce to Mob Destructor to remove all his supplies and proceed to a dirt shack at specific co-ordinates. Trock and Yldir fight, and after five minutes Yldir comes out victorious, having easily overpowered his opponent before kicking him to the ground as he declares Virtis unstoppable.

Eventually, Anti Virtis successfully track Yldir and send the FBI to storm his home, arresting him, just before he was about to kill Trock. The FBI are then heard through Yldir's microphone breaking down his door and apprehending him, before his connection is cut off. Titan enters the cave and leaves with a shocked Trock as they go to reunite with Gold and Red. Two days later, it's announced Anti-Virtis traced Yldir through complicated measures thanks to Titan informing them he was on the server, and then back in the server, Trock, Red, Gold and Titan go to the dirt shack housing Mob Destructor, as they cover the front enterance in bedrock leaving a one hole gap. Mob Destructor then tries digging in every direction out of the shack, and much to his horror finds the entire thing is secretly coated in bedrock, thanks to Gold and Red. Confused as to why they didn't just kill him, Mob Destructor asks why, with Gold explaining in irony how he should "suffer in a server he no longer controls", a quote said by M\_D previously. As the heroes wander off, Mob Destructor rages.

Yldir gives up the locations of Perseus and Nodis to them. Nodis is arrested whilst on Terraria, and Perseus is then arrested. The process of restoring all of gaming began, concluding after two months.

     Now with every server restored, the original owner of Icarus' server, Striker, rewards Peron and Michalak with being in-charge of the reformed zombie gamemode on his server. The two are honoured, and are joined by the revived Milky bar and Maxw3ll.

     On Blue's server, Sar1ta and SGS6B are revived, forgiven by Blue. Blue rewards Dr P3 with operating powers, inviting him to join the team, instantly accepting.

## Virtis' Escape

Back in the county court, Joseph reveals the details of the fight from years ago: Lillie and Malcolm fled, while Joseph knocked out Vlad Hough and Steffan also passed out from the knife. He threw them into and alleyway and destroyed the contents of the warehouse. He reveals Vlad and Steffan recovered and got normal jobs. Lillie invites Joseph to join her and Malcolm, but Joseph, still hating himself, accepts punishment from the judge as having started the entire Virtis purge; he is arrested and sent to prison. Lillie and Malcolm embrace. Anti Virtis eventually disband. In hacker jail, Virtis lament they're close to being transferred to prison, but witness Ultimate\_Overlord, another Minecraft hacker, being placed into a cell next to them. Eventually, they team up with him, and pull off a successful escape from the jail.

Ultimate Overlord had been taking over his brothers server: Overlord's server, and after multiple failed attempts to maintain his rule, was put in hacker jail. Virtis themselves personally prefer Owner's server, as it was the first they took over. Planning to rebuild their empire, Virtis recruit Ultimate Overlord as the fourth member. Eventually getting back online, Virtis retrieve backups of all their work, and use their Link technology previously used on Icarus' server and Scorpion's server, to Link together Overlord's server and Owner's server.

On Owner's server,  the server is back in peace. In the main city, Red is recalling to Calious about the events of the fight with Razer, to which Calious is fed up of him reiterating everything. Calious leaves Red to check on his old snow-tribe, and Red is approached by the returned Perfume Crandy, having been absent to help the now disbanded Anti Virtis. The two catch up and watch as Friendly constructs a new city church, triggering Red to remember the time he "married" Perfume Crandy at a village chruch; the two agree to discard the event and be friends. Suddenly, the two are knocked in the sky by a fast approaching Bessie, Owner's new pet mule. Trock and Owner help them up and apologise, before pursuing the out of control mule. As Gold runs through admin reports, one of which mentioning Link portals, he too is knocked by Bessie. Owner explains to him that he likes having a pet and can keep things in her chest, such as the key to his underground bunker of building experiments, which Friendly is building the church ontop of as a sign for Owner.

Bessie is lost, but approaches Mob Destructor's bedrock prison. Seeing opportunity, and after having just complained about his imprisonment, Mob Destructor mounts Bessie as soon as she passes the prison, effectively freeing him. Bessie, however, is still out of control and runs toward the church, being noticed by Friendly. Mob Destructor and Bessie, whom he has called Margaret 2.0, fall into the bunker below and Bessie's chest falls open, allowing Mob Destructor to obtain the key to the experiment room. Inside, he comes across 'the booth of immortality' and presses the button inside; he is locked inside, blinded and overwhelmed with mob screams and cave ambiences. Mob Destructor curls up until all the effects wear off, and the booth opens. He initially thinks nothing has came from it, but then steps on a pressure plate which shoots two arrows from the ceiling down at him, and is suddenly, instantly healed. He checks his inventory to find he has obtained a very powerful and permanent regeneration effect, making him immune to most in-game damages; hence the title of 'immortality booth'. He is excited at this and declares he possess 'regeneration of the highest calibre', but then witnesses a Link portal manifest.

Friendly warns Owner of Mob Destructor's escape, but the whole server is suddenly overcome with earthquakes and portals manifesting. Perseus, Yldir and Nodis then appear, terrifying Owner, before a giant portal shockwave occurs. Both servers have been merged successfully, thought not without some error, due to the Link never having actually been properly finished, and this backup version being even more unstable. All entities are randomly sent across the merged map.

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## The New Link

On the merged server, Trock and Calious meet up with Herostar and Miss Mouse and gather supplies. Mob Destructor fights Trock, Calious, Miss Mouse and Herostar before Yldir subdues the four and instructs him to find the rest of the players. Gold and Perfume Crandy meet up with Old Sword and Diamond Lover, and together raid a pillager outpost and steal supplies, but are chased by Ultimate Overlord in his new and improved Death Lord ship, and hide. Red and Friendly meet up with Sheep\_e and together defend a village against a pillager raid, before discovering Yldir firing lightning at the others. Red, Friendly and Sheep\_e help Trock, Herostar, Calious and Miss Mouse, and discover Virtis' tower in Owner's city, and head towards it. Owner and Overlord are chased by the Death Lord but find Gold, Old Sword, Diamond Lover and Perfume Crandy, and fire a TNT cannon at the ship to damage it. They then follow the fleeting ship back to the city. Now with all players in Owner's city, Virtis and Ultimate Overlord attack them. Trock, Red, Gold, Herostar, Sheep\_e and Old Sword are all killed in the process. Perseus allows the rest to flee in order to test Ultimate Overlord by having him pursue and kill them.

## Foiling the New Link

Ultimate Overlord chases the rest into a cave but his brother Overlord is able to finally convince him to abandon his evil ways and help them. Mob Destructor finds MrPig and the two find Bessie, and ride on her until they find the rest in the cave. Mob Destructor attempts to kill them all but they all gang up on him, forcing him to flee. Ultimate Overlord summons a new Death Lord and everyone boards it, and fly to the Virtis tower. Ultimate Overlord pretends to have been taken hostage and his ship stolen, and they fire at the tower, killing Virtis. The players flee the ship and Ultimate Overlord intentionally misses lightning shots at them, before Perseus respawns and tells him they must go to sleep for the night. In the barn, Ultimate Overlord sneaks out and throws their internet router out, and turns himself and Virtis into the police. Virtis are sent to three separate maximum security prisons and fall out, becoming defunct. Ultimate Overlord's sentence is reduced. Lillie Sweet and Malcolm Lang take control of the Linked server and restore everyone's operating power, and shut off the Link, but not before both server's players say their farewells.

Afterwards on Owner's server, the crew work together to lure Mob Destructor to the Giant Hole Site, disabling its Nether Portal function and dropping him in, causing him to fall endlessly in the void unable to die due to his regeneration.