Movie:A MINECRAFT MOVIE The Junior Novelization/1CHP
Chapter 1
Steve had a passion to explore the mine since he was young, but wasn't allowed to do so with his young age. He settled for an office job years later, but feeling discontent, he remembered the mines and returned to them, finally able to explore. While mining, he came across the Earth Crystal and the Orb of Dominance; combining the two formed the Earth Cube, which activated an Earth Portal, in which he discovers the Overworld. There, he tames and befriends a wolf named Dennis and becomes an expert builder. One day, Steve discovers an obsidian gateway and, upon reactivating it, enters the Nether.
Chapter 2
Steve encounters Malgosha, the leader of the piglins, who despises creativity and has wished to demolish the Overworld for gold since being mocked at a craft fair she joined in her childhood. Malgosha imprisons Steve and Dennis, who escape with the Orb of Dominance. Steve instructs Dennis to go to Earth and hide the orb under his bed at home. Steve is imprisoned once again as Dennis escapes into Earth. Years later, Garrett Garrison, nicknamed "The Garbage Man" after becoming the video game champion of 1989, runs a store known as Game Over World in Chuglass, Idaho. He attempts to mentor Greta, Leo, and Miles with video game lessons, but all he does is play while the others watch. Just then, a delivery guy arrives and gives Garrett an eviction notice.
Chapter 3
Garrett heads to a storage unit that is said to hold an Atari Cosmos, hoping to sell it at his shop. Garrett wins the unit, but the Atari Cosmos is nowhere to be found. He trashes the unit before leaving, upset at his misfortune, but his car soon breaks down.
Chapter 4
Henry and Natalie move into Chuglass following the death of their mother. They meet their estate agent, Dawn Runcie, who introduces them to their home. That evening, Henry unpacks his belongings in his room when Natalie shouts at him for help. As an idea pops into his head, he rummages through moving boxes in the hall, pulling out whatever item he could to build a robot, which he dubbed Buddy Bot, to assist Natalie with setting up the kitchen, but it quickly malfunctions and breaks the pig pitcher that their mom had made for Natalie. Henry apologizes, and Natalie tells him to grow up.
Chapter 5
The next morning, Henry visits Game Over World before school and meets Garrett, who offers to mentor him. Upon arriving at Chuglass High School, he heads into art class, led by Clemente Gunchie. Mr. Gunchie has the class do a still life of a banana and an orange, but Henry focuses on making a banana attached to a jet pack. Mr. Gunchie scolds Henry for not following the assignment, and Trevor and his friend believe the jetpack will not work. Henry says that he would love to be a rocket scientist, and Trevor says to him to prove it.
Chapter 6
Henry builds a jetpack, which wows the students, but after being sabotaged by Trevor and his friend, the jetpack goes haywire and crashes into the local potato chip factory. Henry is nearly expelled, but Garrett pretends to be his uncle and picks him up. Back at Game Over World, Henry notices the Orb of Dominance glowing in a burlap sack.
Chapter 7
Henry combines the orb with the Earth Crystal, dragging him to the mineshaft. Dawn and Natalie follow him and Garrett into the mineshaft, and they are all dragged through the portal into the Overworld.
Chapter 8
As Garrett, Henry, Natalie, and Dawn take in their surroundings, Malgosha soon discovers that the Orb has returned, and frees Steve on the condition that he retrieves the Orb for her. He obliges, but attempts a sneak attack. Malgosha threatens to kill Dennis if Steve does not oblige, forcing him to reluctantly accept.