The Legend of Dave the Villager 8

***Spoiler warning:** Plot summary will follow.*

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 8** is the eighth book in the Legend of Dave the Villager series. In this book, Dave and his friends help a professor deal with a bizarre duplicating Glitch. They call it the Steveageddon.

## Book Description

Dave thought one Steve was bad enough, but now he's about to face his worst nightmare: a whole *town* of Steves! Can Dave and his friends prevent Steveageddon?

## Plot

Dave and his friends stare confusedly at two Steves in front of them. Suddenly, the two of them glow and double to become four Steves. They take them to their town, Steve Town. On the way, they talk about how they had gone in the machine of a professor which caused them to duplicate. After that, they start to glow once again. However, since Dave had been touching one of them, he also duplicates.

Dave and his clone look awkwardly at each other. They are asked some questions, to which they give the same answer. While they argue about who is the original, they enter the town. It was completely filled with Steves, who duplicate every minute. They take them to the professor's laboratory. One of the Steves removes a bookshelf, behind which is the stairs to the actual laboratory.

In the laboratory, they see endermen workers and a professor, who introduces herself as Professor Quigley. The Steves ask her for cake, and she tells a talking enderman to give them cake. While they eat it, she gives them a tour of the laboratory.

In the laboratory, there were many abominations, like a zombie-skeleton hybrid and a giant baked potato which explodes. Then, she shows them her duplicating machine.

She explains that as a child, Steve had saved her from Spidroth's followers and since then, she had been a big fan of Steve. Steve used to visit her on a regular basis. Once, he wanted to duplicate his cake. Since the machine took quite some time, he stepped into the machine to check it. However, the machine was only meant to have one item in it at a time. This caused it to malfunction and hence, they started duplicating both themselves and those who touched them every minute or so.

She also explains that if the duplicated items are placed back in the machine, they merge. The two Daves recombine to form one but says that it did not work with the Steves. She also says she is studying a female Steve clone when a lot of Steves fall down the stairs after duplication. She remarks that it is a very bad thing. When Carl asks why, Robo-Steve explains that if they keep duplicating, the entire world would be filled with Steves.

Robo-Steve decides to help her while the others go to a local bar, the Steve's head. Before they do, she makes them drink a liquid which will prevent them from duplicating even if they touch a Steve. They drink milk and chat when the Steves multiply, filling the whole room with Steves. Porkins says it couldn't get worse when the Steve's multiply again, forming a river of Steves. The three friends get separated.

Robo-Steve asks the Professor if Steve had entered with a cake, which she confirms. He also steps in with some cake, forming a clone. However, they step back in with the cakes, causing it to combine them and the cakes. As they talk about the idea, a lot of Steves fall down the stairs, which could damage the machine. Robo-Steve uses the enlarger gun on himself to hold back the Steves. However, they start to glow.

Dave swims through the river of Steves and manages to find Carl. Porkins also swims there and the three have a happy reunion *for about three seconds* as the Steves duplicate and explode, filling every nearby biome with Steves.

Robo-Steve struggles against all the Steves. Getting overwhelmed, he tells the enderman to hit him with the gun again when Professor Quigley has an idea. Some of the endermen teleport the trio to a safe place. They meet the Professor, who tells an enderman to tell Robo-Steve to start operation bucket.

Robo-Steve uses the enlarger gun to make himself extremely tall. He holds the duplicating machine in one hand and uses the gun to make the Steves very small. After that, he shrinks himself to normal. Robo-Steve puts all the Steves in one bucket while Professor Quigley explains their findings. After putting the required amount of cake in the bucket, they throw the buckets into the duplicating machine.

The machine begins to vibrate because of the large number of items. Its surface begins to crack and steam begins to come out of it and the Professor realizes it is going to blow up. Everyone gets away just in the nick of of time as it explodes. After it does, Robo-Steve takes the enlarger gun and enlarges something he sees. Everyone sees it is Steve, holding a cake. After his enlargement, however, he faints.

The Professor explains that since many minds had been merged into on, it would take him some time to process it. She tells some endermen to build a house for him. Suddenly, she worries about someone called Alex. She rushes to the female Steve clone, whose name is Alex. She says when the machine was destroyed, her life support had been damaged. She takes her out of her cell and she wakes up for a second, before falling asleep again.

Dave sees the endermen rebuild the Professor's house, under her direction. As he walks towards Steve's house, he also sees Alex spar with Robo-Steve. Inside the house, he sees Steve is awake. Steve says he wants to say something. Dave guesses he wants cake but he actually thanks him and remembers his name, surprising him. As he walks out, Professor Quigley says she wants to talk to him.

She asks him to take Alex with him on his journeys. She says since her mind is delicate, and she needs new experiences to awaken her mind. He agrees. Before he leaves, however, he gives her his teleportation pearl. He tells her how Future Dave had used it for time travel. He asks if she could modify it and she agrees. As he watches his friends fight, he is sure they will beat the Ender Dragon.

## Epilogue

Professor Quigley sits in her laboratory. One of the endermen tells her she has a visitor. She tells all the endermen to come for protection(as they were extremely far from any town or city).The visitor offers her lots of emeralds for the duplicating machine, but she feels suspicious of him and denies its existence. After he sees a giant baked potato, he asks if she has something that can enlarge things.

She says that she does not have one and that he sounds like Carl. He perks up and asks if his friends Dave, Carl and Porkins were there, and which direction they went in. She says they just stayed for a day and she does not know where they went. The person says he must go. As he leaves, she asks him his name. He says it is Adam.