#understanding(fic)

In terms of what happened to Andvari's wife, on the day that everything began to go straight to shit (putting it lightly), Martha and Andvari planned to take Herobrine away from Crystalia under the guise of moving away for an assignment that Andvari received from the lab. Under that assignment, Andvari and his family would be able to move to the mainland of Minecraftia in order to do additional research on the mobs who lived there, sending info back to the Crystalia main lab in order for them to have the most updated information on how the mobs were developing. Since Herobrine was still hidden, he'd be snuck away somehow with their luggage, and once they arrived to their new home on the mainland, they essentially would've been scot-free at that point.

Unfortunately, the night that they were supposed to leave, Andvari's coworker happened to finally catch what he'd been looking for: a glimpse of Herobrine as they were about to sneak him away. That ended up leading to a chase backed by the Crystalian guard (prompted by the lab sounding an alarm), which ended up leading to the coworker managing to knock Martha out of the picture momentarily, but not before her giving Andvari and Herobrine the order to keep running. She was injured to the point of unconsciousness and hospitalization, but not death, as she was to be questioned for her participation in this strict breaking of not only lab code, but Crystalian security code as well. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, Andvari has yet to meet up with her again, as he's still somewhat unaware of what occurred to her (though he remains hopeful of her survival).

As for what happened to Herobrine and Andvari, they were essentially left running without a solid list of options to head toward. Crystalia is a large Utopian city cut up into small, well-guarded and well-monitered pieces, so it was only a matter of time until they got caught. Case in point, while on the outskirts of the city, Andvari was struck dead. In a panic, Herobrine revived him using his unknown abilities at the time, and once Andvari was up and running again, he directed the two of them to a possible place of escape: an old underwater portal room that the lab had once discovered in their examination of the mobs around the shoreline, evidence of the source of Crystalia's abundance of quartz. After some difficulty given the stress of their situation, the two managed to reach the portal room and escape into the Nether, where they found momentary solace (before the terrors of the Nether began to fall upon them).

Everything happened during a single night.