Desensitized (Herobrine X Hacker!Reader)

Part 6

"Now... Here you go." Null's bright eyes smile as he pours you a steaming bowl of stew. Mmmm. It smells so GOOD! The shadowy figure chuckles as he watches your eyes light up so much at the mere smell of it. "It has..been a long time since I cooked for another, so I do hope I haven't gone rusty."

"Pssh! Oh please! I'm sure it'll taste perfect!!" You smile before gently blowing on the soup. It took all night for Null to gather everything needed and return. By now, you were FAMISHED. When the stew cooled enough, you downed it instantly. "Ohh!" Holding up the 'ok' hand gesture for a moment. "Now this is GOOD! Better than my momma's own cooking!"

"You really think so..?" Null's eyes light up some more, rising from the stone ground. Still, the two of you sit in the same enclosed naturally carven tunnel as before.

"Yep! How'd you learn how to make it?! No offense, but I assume you wouldn't be the kind to eat." Gesturing to Null's lack of a mouth. The shadow's glowing eyes squint, chuckling. He slides his back down the wall across from you and sighs, as if preparing for a long tale.

"Well, that is because I had two children to feed, heh!.. Not biological." Null starts. You nod along, still stuffing your face with more food than you can chew. "Not long after Notch created Alex, he sold the game, right?"

"Yeah.." mouth full.

"And as you already know, he stripped me of nearly all my power before that time as a desperate attempt to rid of me.."

"Why tho?"

"Simple. I am what is known as a glitch. If word of my existence were to get out, it would mean the end of this platform's primary target audience: children. This is the Bedrock edition of Minecraft, after all..."

"It is???"

"Indeed."

"Hm..."

"So, anyways, after the purchase, I was left with a rather broken Steve and too young to care for herself Alex. Steve, the poor lad, had been pushed through what I like to call...the code shredder."

"The what now?!" You had never heard of such a coding term before!

"Have you ever attempted converting Lynx to Python..? Or perhaps Ruby to SQL?"

"I-... It's a very hard thing to do...but I managed it once or twice." You shrug. "Typically, though, I have to completely rewrite the code, only keeping the basics from the original script!"

"That is what happened to Steve...or, Herobrine..." Null pauses to sigh, remembering things from the past. "I was created when the very first version of Bedrock Edition: "Pocket Edition" was created... Steve. Well, he was already within the game, so... He took the blunt of the blow. The 'shredder' if you will..." You lean forwards anxiously.

"...What happened to him?"

"He, well, his base code made it through, but, the rest of him... Java Edition is, of course, made with JavaScript. Whereas Bedrock is made with... C++..." Your mouth gapes open slightly, already knowing where this is going. "The programmers had no idea of his uniqueness. They had no idea messing with the very fabric of the game would screw with the AI forming inside of it! It caused him to, well, have massive parts of his original code scrapped in place for another kind... That's when...Herobrine was truly born.... You want some more?" Null's head lifts suddenly. You jump slightly. Looking down at your lap, you see your empty bowl and your stomach growls.

"Uhhhm, yeh! Sure." Thankful, you hand your bowl back over to Null, who quickly fills it back up with a couple more scoops. "Um, so, what happened next..?"