Post by bobsnicket on Nov 5, 2007 18:35:51 GMT -5
Chapter 3: The Escape
The door of the cell opened. Zelda heard her harsh breathing and the fast-paced pounding of her heart. The door completely opened, revealing two strange purple-flashing wire frames. One was male and the other female. Without speaking a word, they grabbed Zelda from under each of her arms and pushed her out.
Zelda saw a vast corridor, lined with white-gloved hands lifelessly holding torches. She saw that the others had also been forced out of their cells, and all were being shoved towards two creepy-looking doors at the end of the hallway. Zelda instinctively knew that she couldn’t let the wire frames take them into the room beyond.
She concentrated her magic and closed her eyes. In a few seconds she had transformed herself into her alternate identity, Sheik. She forced her arms from the wire frames’ grasp, and in a matter of seconds had punched, kicked, and pulverized them until they were groaning on the ground.
The others, except Pikachu, Peach, and Ness, had also escaped from the wire frames’ clutches. They helped those who were incapable of defeating the wire frames, and stood together as a group.
Suddenly, the doors at the end of the hallway burst open, and Crazy Hand, Master Hand’s cruel left hand brother, floated into the hallway, followed by 20 metal figures resembling 20 of the playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and many more fighting wire frames.
“Get them!” Crazy Hand screamed. Everyone started running, the prisoners away from their captors and toward the stained-glass window at the other end of the hallway with a large white glove design on it, and everything else after them.
Nana reached the window first, and smashed it with her hammer. She threw a rope over the edge, and froze the end to the ground with a Freezy. “Climb down!” she shouted.
Nana, Zelda, Falco, and Link started climbing down, after Link had shot an arrow at a wire frame. But everyone else fell behind and was engulfed by the massive army of evil.
When the four reached the ground, they ran towards a cavern-sized mouse hole to hide in, Crazy Hand cursing behind them.
“Hey, Lu-i-gi, I think we are al-most in Mush-room King-dom 2.” Mr. Game and Watch, the poorly animated flat black shape, had been leading Luigi and Kirby to his new home. “I think I can see the wat-er-fall a-head.” Mr. Game and Watch had left Flatzone, his old home, hoping to start a better and more dimensional life. However, almost everywhere else was 3-D, which was too much for him. So he decided to come to the older Mushroom Kingdoms, where he spent most of his time cooking bacon and sausages. His actual living quarters was in Mushroom Kingdom 2, but he visited the other one frequently.
“Let’s-e-go, then!” Luigi cheered. He had also visited the older kingdoms, but it had been a long time. They were to stock up on food and supplies at Mr. Game and Watch’s house, then continue.
“Then north!” Kirby said in his rather high-pitched voice. Kirby, like Mr. Game and Watch and most Pokemon, wasn’t very fluent in the English language. And indeed, after they were all packed they would head north to the Bean-Bean Kingdom, through the Spooky Forest, and on to the Kanto Region. In this way they wouldn’t need to go through the Icicle Mountains, the coldest and deadliest mountains in the entire Nintendo world (with the possible exception of Death Mountain in Hyrule).
As the three neighbors walked towards the waterfall, tiny Goombas scuttled along the ground, and Fire Flowers danced in the sunlight. The sky was clear with not a single cloud. That is, except for in the southern distance, where the clouds of Mario’s Rainbow Ride dwelled.
At last, they reached the homely house of Mr. Game and Watch. But then, the black-outlined 2-story house began to shake and tremble. Kirby looked out the window and shouted, “Birdo!”
“This way,” DK grunted, as they made their way through the dense jungle.
“Why do we have to go to Jungle Japes just so you can restock bananas?” Bowser complained.
“Because if we don’t, I’ll tell everyone I beat you in arm wrestling!” DK secretly planned to brag about his victory anyway. “By the way, hurry up, you slowpokes!” He was swinging on vines from tree to tree while the others were stepping carefully over roots and rocks and ducking under low-hanging branches. They traveled in this manner for quite some time, every once in a while DK waiting for them to catch up.
Finally, after several hours of tripping and swinging, they came to a large tree house. They all climbed a rope ladder to the wooden platform at the top (Bowser had lots of trouble not breaking the rope or falling off). When they were at the top, DK led them into a cabin where an old monkey named Cranky sat rocking slowly in his rocking chair. DK greeted his old acquaintance, grabbed several dozen golden bananas from the storage room, and they set off once again, this time to the narrow place where the Icicle Mountains did not disturb their path. But behind them four other monkeys wondered why DK always had all the fun, and decided to follow them.
“Hey, I think I see something!” Young Link stared ahead, his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the forest. They were in the Spooky Forest, on the way to Roy’s home. Together they had traveled through the plain of Hyrule, through Young Link’s old home, Kokiri Forest, and now they were moving through gloomy woods, in which it always seemed to be night, and the malicious face of the Moon always cruelly smiled at them in the east through the bare branches of the creepy trees they were walking by.
Young Link had seen a mansion of some kind deep into the forest on their right. “Let’s check it out!” Roy said eagerly. “I love haunted houses!”
So they decided to leave the path that they should have stayed on and started walking towards the mansion that held more dangers and secrets than they could possibly imagine.
“Pichu-pi!” Like most Pokemon, Pichu and Jigglypuff didn’t exactly speak so other species could understand them. All Pokemon understood each other, and Yoshi, as a dinosaur of sorts who knew Pokemon language as well as English, also knew what Pichu was saying. By “Pichu-pi!” Pichu meant something along the lines of, “I hope the Ice Climbers know where Pikachu is!” They were heading towards Freezy Cavern, the place where Popo and Nana usually lived. Since they had no idea where their friends were, they hoped somebody in one of the nearby kingdoms might know.
Because Jigglypuff wasn’t very fast, they were traveling in a Poke Float with a Squirtle-shaped balloon. Finally, after searching for some time from the floating basket, they spotted the first of the Icicle Mountains in the distance.
Peach, Mario, Marth, Pikachu, and Ness were all being pushed and shoved through the two doom-foreshadowing doors. The room inside was enormous, with pillars in every dark corner, and more handheld burning torches. Everyone except Pikachu was held back from advancing further. Pikachu was forced into an electro-proof clear container, and set onto a metal platform with an intimating device right above it. There was a chain strapped to the container, and then there was a white flash that momentarily blinded everyone. As white as Master Hand’s glove.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Character Locations
Mushroom Kingdom II (Mr. G & W's House): Luigi, Kirby, Mr. Game and Watch
Spooky Forest (spooky mansion): Young Link, Roy, Fox, Samus
Kongo Jungle: Ganondorf, Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong, Bowser
Kanto Region: Pichu, Jigglypuff, Yoshi
Master Hand's Fortress: Mario, Marth, Pikachu, Ness, Princess Peach
On the Run: Zelda, Link, Falco, Nana
??: PopoThe next chapter...I don't know...does one chapter a week sound reasonable? At one point I wouldn't be able to keep up that pace, but the chapters will be much longer, and I could possibly post them in pieces on the same thread.
And if you check the Table of Contents you'll notice that I updated it with the name of the next chapter! (not that it reveals anything)
FEEDBACK PLEASE!
11/6: Increased spacing of paragraphs to make for easier reading. Single space in between means paragraph break, and two spaces in between means setting change.
11/7: I think I might post Chapter 4 a bit sooner than a week from when I posted it because I'm eager to post it, and am too impatient to wait longer than this Sunday or earlier.
11/10: Added Chapter pic.
