Daring Do woke up in a strange cube-shaped world, unaware of what to do, unaware of where to go, unaware of what was happening in general. Goji, however, being a true Minecraft OG, then went to the nearest tree and punched it.

Daring Do was about to stop him, then noticed the cracks in said tree and the fact he had no reaction associated with pain at all. With slight hesitation, she took her hoof and hit another tree. No pain, but a lot of cracks on the tree. She kept punching, the wood broke, and the tree came down.

Goji had gathered then opened up some strange menu and put a few wood blocks there, which he had collected from the tree he had punched. Different blocks came up in another slot, which he took and arranged in a certain order, which created another different block. The way this world Goji had teleported her into was too much for Daring to process.

"You know," Goji said. "You could do the fighting for the first few or so days. I'll take care of the rest and show you how this world works as well when I get everything laid out."

Daring Do thought about it, unbeknownst to the fact that the reason she hadn't been able to agree or disagree for such a long period of time was the author struggling to come up with an in-character response.

Deciding it was best to venture when she knew what was going on, our golden-coated adventurer declined Goji's offer and decided to stay near him in the case a zombie attacked and she didn't know what to do.

It served her well.

A zombie immediately saw them. It was slow moving and rather dim-witted, but even a punch couldn't kill it...right? Goji proved her wrong.

To be fair, Daring thought, we just punched wood. A zombie would be pretty easy to dispose of.

After 7 or so hits, the zombie had been vanquished.

"That was easier than I thought," Daring said.

"Don't get your hopes up," Goji replied grimly. "After day 70, things are not gonna be pretty."

Daring Do let that sink in. She remembered Goji said the virus would mutate every 10 days. She should've known better, but she guessed ecstasy from vanquishing their first zombie clouded her memory a bit. Even then, though, she thought the mutations wouldn't have been that bad, and that she would only need to worry about day 90 and so forth.

"Well," Goji said, interrupting her thoughts. "We're going to need to start getting
a few more resources. We just need to punch some more trees, head over to that town over there," he pointed to a town not very far away.

"And kill more zombies?" Daring guessed.

"That's the spirit, eh? Now off!"

Goji began collecting more wood, and created something that looked like a wooden pickaxe. How was that gonna help their case? A wooden pick wasn't exactly what most would call a choice weapon.

Our favorite Rainbow Dash recolor (unless you dislike her, but that's beside the point) got her answer as Goji dug up some dirt, mined some stone, and headed over to a block he had placed earlier and arranged the resources in a specific order. He now had a stone saber and pickaxe, which were much more useful. He crafted another stone saber for Daring, who took it with silent gratitude, and they both went off to the abandoned town.

Now armed with weapons, ridding the settlement of zombies was easier than how it would've been had not they crafted said weapons, but the process was still rather difficult due to there being, obviously, a large horde rather than a few separated individuals of the undead, coupled with the annoying baby ones, which had the same health stats and dealt the same amount of attack damage as adults, but were twice as fast. Daring would not look forward to day 70 with the little creeps.

Once finished with disposing of the horde and destroying all the spawners, they set up base on the strongest structure the town could provide, and raided the buildings. They came back with iron armor, a decent amount of food, and new iron weapons and tools (minus hoes, which aren't that important anyway), along with bows and arrows. Goji, with the little iron they had left, managed to craft a few iron bars and started fortifying the town. It wasn't much, but at least the pony and atomic lizard duo had a start.

The two were about to sleep, but then text appeared on the bottom left corner of their vision.

The Blood Moon is rising.

"Sweet mother of Jesus, just the first day and already a Blood Moon?!" Goji groaned as he immediately rushed Daring to the roof, cut off the vines from the walls, and readied his iron saber.

"What's going on?!" Daring panicked, for the first time in an adventure. Well, not the first time, but this was the first time her panic was off the charts in an adventure.

"When a Blood Moon rises," Goji explained. "hundreds upon hundreds of zombies spawn around you. It's best to be in high ground during such a time."

Sure enough, suddenly, an unbelievable amount of zombies spawned on the ground and pushed at the structure, attempting to reach them. Some spawned on the roof, but Goji swiftly decapitated them.

Goji took his bow and shot at the zombies around them, but like a hydra, it seemed that two more always took the place of the casualty. Daring did the same and got the same result.

It took all night long to rid of just an eighth of the walking dead before the two new acquaintances.

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