The Warden - AVM Shorts Episode 26

The Warden is the seventh installment for AVM Shorts Season 3 and the 26th episode of AVM Shorts overall.

Story
After falling through a deep hole, The Second Coming gets up and notices that he's in a Dripstone Cave, and that he's next to a Skulk Sensor. He thinks of a plan by using blocks to tower out of the cave, but then he remembers that the Minecraft Master Block that he possesses got lost in the previous fight against King Orange. TSC puts his hands on his hips, making the Sculk Sensor croak. He hits the ground multiple times and finds out that they detect vibrations. Without blocks to climb by jump-stacking, The Second Coming tries to climb up the walls of the cave and up to the hole, but to no avail, he only feels exhausted halfway through, and fell heavily back to the cave floor. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure is limping in the background.

TSC climbs the cave walls a few more times, but fails, and it's a mercy he wasn't seriously injured in his attempts. Frustrated, he walks back to where he fell into the cave. The Sculk Sensor croaks again as he sits, which made TSC so mad he destroys it in a fit of rage.

And that's when the figure in the background glows blue at the exact same time. TSC stops and looks at it with uneasiness. Then it roars, revealing to be a Warden and begins chasing TSC, terrifying him so bad he runs all the way to a Deep Dark City. There, TSC manages to hide behind a pillar for some time. He looks left and right, and slowly tiptoes out. Then the Warden emerges from a huge patch of sculk blocks and walks around. Realizing that the Warden is blind but can hear vibrations, TSC begins to walk backwards very slowly but his foot accidently hits a Sculk Shrieker, alerting the Warden. The Warden roars and begins chasing him.

While he's running, TSC finds a room to hide in from the Warden, and discovers a chest in the Deep Dark City. Knowing that the Warden is blind, TSC sneaks past it and opens it, hoping that it contains weapons and blocks, but the chest made a noise as it opened and TSC panicked. The Warden quickly finds The Second Coming inside the room, and chases him again. TSC throws a candle to lure the Warden away, and is able to loot the chest of its materials. The Warden hears the vibration and chases TSC.

After getting far away from the Warden, TSC finds quickly that his new items, a stick, a book, a candle, and an enchanted golden apple, are not enough to enable his escape. When the Warden closes in on him, he distracts the Warden again by throwing the Enchanted Golden Apple away from him(not without a touch of regret at having to abandon such a valuable treaure). He then tries to uses the items to mine cobblestone blocks, but that released noise, alerting the Warden. In desperation, TSC slides into a narrow tunnel to get out of the reach of the Warden, feeling safe.

But the Warden begins bashing the blocks to get to TSC. Panicked, TSC goes further inside the tunnel, and finds out it's a dead end. He tries to use the book to mine through, and then stopped, wondering what's inside the book. He reads the book and suddenly an idea came to him. TSC creates a makeshift flute with a candle and a stick by using the stick to make the candle hollow, a hole on the outside, then sticking the stick into one end. Meanwhile, the Warden bashes his way into the dead end and roars. With no time, TSC plays some music, which incapacitates the Warden. As he plays along, the book that he's using turns out to be a music book, which was what made TSC make the flute. The Warden suddenly remembers its time when the Deep Dark City was inhabited by Villagers, as well as the Warden itself, being a former guardian. Now that TSC has stopped the Warden from killing him, he slowly tries to leave, but the Warden stops him and thanks him for reminding it who it was before. TSC then plays a flute version of Pigstep, forming the music into a picture story: There is a King Orange who is bad and TSC needs the Warden to help fight him. The Warden agrees; as they were about to leave the cave, the Warden jumps super high and climbs out of the cave into the Nether Portal.

Back in the Nether, King Orange climbs out of the ruined bastion after being knocked out with his fight against TSC. He, too, remembers that his Minecraft Master Block got lost in the fight, and decides to escape the scene and get the Master Block. Just then, the Warden and TSC emerge, and prevents King Orange from escaping. King Orange leaps over them but now, with TSC's help, the Warden grabs King Orange and flings him back to the quartz room. The Warden charges at him and King Orange barely dodges the Warden's swift attack. TSC helps the Warden sense King Orange and the Warden throws a heavy blow at King Orange, and the fight continues. Just as the Warden makes his finishing blow, King Orange grabs a gold block nearby and places it into his specter, stopping the Warden from destroying him. With the gold block on his scepter, it grants King Orange renewed strength and he's able to fight back against the Warden. But with the Warden's strength and TSC's combat skills syncing, they knocked the scepter out of King Orange's hands and punched him over the bastion.

Just as King Orange gets up, he sees... one of the Master Blocks from the previous fight! TSC however, doesn't know that, and he quickly grabs King Orange's scepter and together he and the Warden went to finish off King Orange... only to see King Orange hovering ominously over them, the Master Block in his hand.

To Be Continued…

Credits
Animators


 * Alan Becker
 * Able Rai
 * terkoiz
 * Shuriken255
 * Sanguinii
 * Fox
 * hexal
 * glob
 * JasontheBoring
 * Kayal
 * oxob3000
 * Doumaki

Sound Design


 * Pepper
 * Alexander Saramov

Music


 * Scott Buckley

Backgrounds


 * Avenoire
 * WingSun

Characters

 * The Second Coming
 * Warden
 * Villagers (flashback)
 * King Orange

Trivia

 * A poll on YouTube for if the the Warden episode should come first or if a new animation called Animation vs. Arcade Games first. This is due to the episode being published at the time before the real in-game Warden was released. The only latest information for the Warden is on the Minecraft Live 2021 which is the inspiration for the Warden in AVM Shorts. The "I want to see the Warden episode ASAP" choice won over the "Do the other video first so that we can see a more accurate Warden" which made this episode come out first than Animation vs. Arcade Games

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● USERNAME: The Slimy Stump DATE: NOVEMBER 4 2021

Ooo, what is that nice song TSC played? I'd like to learn it!

● USERNAME: The Slimy Stump DATE: SEPTEMBER 30 2021

I hate the Deep Dark biome! It's so clausterphobic!

● USERNAME: The Slimy Stump DATE: SEPTEMBER 10 2021

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