Swapped - Chp. 7 - Welcome to Minecraftia

Lewis woke up with a pounding in his head, groaning as he sat up, his eyes still shut. “I am hating whatever this thing is…” He started to reach over the side of the bed to where a nightstand should be, where his phone should be, but all he felt was nothing just an empty space. “What the-” He opened his eyes and was greeted with the sight of the inside of a shack. “Where... What... “ Lewis said to nobody, his breath already picking up speed.

“Buddy, you finally awake in there?” A familiar voice asked from outside the shack.

“S-Simon?” Lewis called back, slowly and hesitantly taking the covers off and attempting to stand up; his legs were weak underneath him so he just fell to his knees with a thud.

“You okay Xephos?” The voice said, sounding concerned. Something outside hit the ground and whoever was speaking was at the door now.

Xephos? Why is Simon calling me that? Lewis grabbed the side of the bed and pulled himself back up to his feet, and looked at who was in the doorway.

“Who are you?!” A dwarf questioned, a shocked expression to match Lewis’s.

“H-Honeydew?” Lewis said after a second. Where was he? Why were people dressed up as his friend’s minecraft character? Why were they calling him Xephos? Oh god… did he somehow get taken by a group of crazy fans?

“Yeah that’s who I am. Now who are you?” Honeydew said louder than he should. The sound of someone else coming was the next thing that was heard, and a blonde man in a white lab coat appeared behind the dwarf.

“Honeydew, who is this?”

“That’s what I’m trying to figure out.”

Lewis looked back and forth between the two, the shaking in his body had finally stopped. “Alright you two, you best tell me where the fuck I am or I’ll call the authorities.” He said, trying to hide the nervousness in his voice after he spotted the sharp paxle on the dwarf’s back.

Both Honeydew and Lalna stopped talking and looked at the stranger. “You’re in Minecraftia.” Lalna replied.

“Specifically at Hole Diggers Inc.” Honeydew said, a hint of pride in his voice.

Lewis stared at the two, his eye started to twitch a bit. “That’s impossible. There’s no way I’m in a video game. Now where am I really?”

Lalna and Honeydew looked at each other, confused that the man isn’t believing them. “We just told you.” Lalna said a bit slower to reply this time.

Lewis groaned some and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “Okay… I’m gonna leave now,” he said starting to the door, “Because only crazy people would believe that we could be in-” When Lewis got out of the shack his eyes went wide. Before him was a beach, a dock, and in the center of the small island was a compound, with a giant ‘H’ made out of metal. “-Minecraftia…”

“You believe us now?” Honeydew said chuckling a bit.

“This… this is impossible!” Lewis yelled out, holding his head with both hands, a panicked look on his face. He had started shaking again, “How did I even get here?!”

Honeydew and Lalna both looked back and forth at each other and the panicking man. “Should… we do something?” Lalna whispered to his dwarven friend.

“No, not now anyway.”

They continued to watch Lewis panic and try to come up with reasons how in the world he got to Minecraftia.

“Is it just me or does he act a little like Xephos?” Honeydew commented to Lalna.

Lalna tilted his head some and continued to look at Lewis, nodding some and said, “Yeah, he kinda does… sounds like him too.”

Honeydew looked down some, thinking. “You know… When I heard him in there, I thought he was Xephos. I asked if he was awake to make sure… and he called me ‘Simon’.”

Lalna perked up when Honeydew said that last part. “Simon? Wait a second… isn’t that the name of your voice?”

Honeydew just nodded. The two Minecraftians looked back at the stranger. “Hey buddy, what’s your name?” Honeydew called out, but Lewis didn’t hear him.

Lalna walked over and grabbed the man’s shoulders, bringing him back out of the panic. “What’s your name?”

Lewis looked at the blonde and stuttered out, “L-lewis… my name’s Lewis.”

The dwarf and the scientist looked at each other in a bit of disbelieve. Finally they both whispered out, “Xephos’s voice…”