Post by bobsnicket on Nov 19, 2007 20:06:59 GMT -5
Chapter 5: Opposition
(Now adding music that I think fits in certain areas)[glow=green,2,300] Green = Out of Story [/glow]
Something wasn’t right. Goombella and Goombario could feel it. The two of them were partners in research and exploration. As everyone knows, Goombas are walking, talking mushrooms. But few are aware that some Goombas, like Goombario and Goombella, can sense when something terrible is about to happen. It is now an extremely rare gift, because only Goombas with honest hearts can have it, and nowadays most of them serve Bowser.
Goombario felt it first. You know that theory about girls being more trustworthy than boys. Well, it’s the opposite with Goombas. But they both felt that people were in danger somewhere in the North.
“Goombella, can you feel that?”
“Feel what? Wait… yes, I think I do.”
“Well, we’re right on the north-western outskirts of Fourside City, so I think we should go help whoever it is.”
Goombella left for a moment to ask her instructor, Professor Frankly, about this.
“He says we should leave immediately.” So they first visited the lab of Professor E. Gadd to use the Eleportationizer 1.0 to travel to the endangered as particles in the air. The world whizzed by as the fungi felt someone’s body heat in the Battlefields and zoomed towards it.
Poof. Two Goombas appeared literally out of thin air in front of the startled group.
“Who are you?” Link unsheathed his sword. They all stared at the mushroom duo.
“Stop!” Goombario pleaded. “We’re just here to help. You’re all in danger.”
“Link, these two are lying.” Zelda spoke softly. “They’re probably spies sent by Master Hand. Shoot them with fire arrows and let’s move on.”
Suddenly, three swirling circles materialized on the purple ground, and the three Shadow Sirens rose up from them.
“Now wait just a minute!” Vivian said, who was now much more respected by her sisters now that Beldam and Marilyn had been beaten countlessly by Mario, and the Shadow Queen had been destroyed, afterwards allowing them to see the error of their ways. “I don’t know about this other Goomba, but Goombella was a good partner of mine on our adventure to the Thousand-Year Door.”
Zelda was starting to look a bit nervous. “But, um, Link, they were villains in that story, so, uh, destroy them with one of your missiles.”
Link looked confused. “I don’t have missiles.”
“Well, then, um, use your flamethrower.”
“When did I get a flamethrower?”
“Annihilate them with your ray gun.”
“I don’t recall acquiring that weapon either.”
“Kill them with--”
“Enough is enough!” Goombario yelled impatiently. “I demand to know who this phony Zelda is. The real one would know what weapons Link has.” The others murmured in agreement, and Zelda was getting angry.
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“If you knew what you were dealing with, you would stop this!” Purple darkness was flaring around her, and her eyes were red. “I am the Shadow Queen, and I will rule alongside the mighty Master Hand when he controls all! Tell your pathetic friends for all I care, and I look forward to the time when I will have permission to destroy you all.” She stared at each one of them, as if inspecting cereal boxes at a grocery store. “But for now, Master Hand has commanded me to take only one of you for his own purposes.”
Purple shadow hands reached out of the ground and grabbed Goombella. “Nooo!” The hand sank into the ground, and the shadows left Zelda’s body to collapse to the ground.
“Goombella! Nooo!” Goombario sobbed.
“How could that fiend possibly have returned?” Nana whispered. “I thought Mario had destroyed her for good.”
As it turned out, Nana was correct. [glow=green,2,300](stop music)[/glow]
If you are familiar with the town around Beanbean Castle, you will know that it’s a very happening place. Indeed, almost every time you visit it there are either new items for sale or a new bean drink. You will also know that Beanbean Castle has been attacked a couple times. This was the case when Luigi and his friends entered the Castle town.
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This time, a pair of corrupted Hammer Bros. was trying to tyrannically force entrance into the castle with a heavy siege of Banzai Bills and Bullet Bills. They were advancing in a vehicle closely resembling the mole tanks featured in Super Mario Sunshine and New Super Mario Bros, firing multiple Bills at once, except with a large emblem of two crossed hammers on the front.
Luigi, Kirby, Mr. Game and Watch, and Prince Peasley zoomed right into action. Mr. Game and Watch used his parachute to help people at the top of the bombarded castle to escape. Kirby swallowed one of the smaller Bullet Bills, became Missile Kirby, and started ramming the other Bullet and Banzai Bills. And Luigi and Peasley went for the hatch on the tank. Luigi started whacking it with his ultra hammer, and Peasley tried to pry it open with his sword.
It finally gave way, and the Hammer Bros. popped out of the hatch and started dueling each of them. Peasley simply sliced off the hammer’s head, knocked off his opponent’s helmet, and kept him at his mercy. Luigi was having a difficult time avoiding the hammer swings. Finally, he knocked the Hammer Brother over and crushed the hammer with his. While Peasley arrested them, Luigi went inside the tank and shut it down. Kirby finished off the remaining Bullet Bills, and Mr. Game and Watch had brought everyone else to safety. [glow=green,2,300](stop music)[/glow]
Queen Bean thanked them and gave them medals for their help. “Once again, Luigi, you have proved to us that the Mushroom Kingdom will always be allies with us! To prove to you our friendship, we will send Prince Peasley to accompany you on your--”
But Queen Bean’s sentence was interrupted suddenly when a purple shadow hand rose out of the ground. Beanbeans screamed as it grabbed Queen Bean.
The seven Star Spirits are always watching the Nintendo World. Although they can’t under normal circumstances do much, every once in a while they may use their Star Powers to temporarily disarm an enemy that isn’t extremely powerful with the call of a wish.
So this was further proof that the Shadow Queen had not really returned, but the formidable force was yet to be identified. At that moment the sky cleared to reveal glittering stars, and down descended the seven awesome figures of the Star Spirits. They circled around the purple hand, creating a beam of energy that struck the hand, forcing it to release its grip on the rather plump queen, and sending the dark energy away for a time. But rest assured that it was not defeated for good. Luigi and friends assumed the enemy to be one of the Floormasters Link had told them about, and thought nothing of it, preferring to rejoice with everyone else after the heavenly miracle had occurred.
Portals are mysterious things, and will probably never be fully understood. Although you will go to the same planet each time, you can never tell where you will appear on it or if you will even be in the past, present, or future. Such is the risk of using portals as shortcuts.
In this instance, DK, Bowser, Captain Falcon, Ganondorf, Diddy, Tiny, Lanky, and Chunky appeared in the past in starships. Chunky, DK, and Bowser were controlling the Great Fox, and everyone else each had an Arwing. Luckily everyone (with the exception of Lanky) had general vehicle-controlling skills and could easily manage steering. Lanky wasn’t going to crash, but he didn’t know any controls besides steering.
So while DK and the three other Kongs had an argument about sharing adventures and bananas, Lanky did loop-the-loops and fired bombs at passing structures.
Then all of the aircrafts went into autopilot, and they all went down a dark tunnel. It opened into a space with the evil Andross floating nearby. “Ha! You can’t defeat me!”
Everyone panicked at first, but they quickly formulated a plan to destroy the evil scientist. Ganondorf and Diddy started firing at his left hand, and Tiny and Captain Falcon aimed for the right hand. The Great Fox concentrated on the eyes, and Lanky continued to mess around. Boom! Boom! Boom! Andross’s hands exploded and he was forced to close both of his eyes. But then he opened his giant mouth and started sucking everyone and everything in, spacecrafts and space rocks.
“Lanky, what are you doing?” DK bellowed. Lanky was spinning and flying straight at Andross’ mouth. He fired a bomb, and Andross yelled, “Nooo!” as he swallowed the bomb and exploded into millions of tiny specks.
So as far as you know, at this point there were at least four conscious characters still prisoners at Master Hand’s fortress. But as Mario was snoring in his cell and dreaming of grabbing a super mushroom and escaping, there were the sounds of struggling coming from the hallway and a high pitched scream. “Mario, help!”
Mario instantly leaped up and started banging on the door of his cell. Ness, next door, had been meditating so he could use PK Flash, and decided to use it to free Mario. BOOM! The metal door fell inward with a heavy clang to reveal three Wire Frames, Metal Bowser, and Metal Peach. The real struggling Peach was being hauled toward the doors at the end of the hall by Metal Bowser.
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“Mama Mia!” Mario rushed out, grabbed Metal Bowser’s tail (who dropped Peach), swung it several times with increasing speed, and finally flung it at Ness’s door. Meanwhile, Marth grabbed a Wire Frame through the bars and started punching it where the face should have been. Ness stepped over Metal Bowser’s groaning form, and then started using his yo-yo to beat up the other two Wire Frames.
Mario ran straight at Metal Peach, who was now dragging Peach towards the doors. But then Metal Bowser came to and clawed Ness. He gave out a yell of pain and collapsed, along with the Wire Frame that was brutally terminated by Marth.
Bowser and the two other Wire Frames chased after Mario, who was looking back and tripped over the Wire Frame’s remains. Then Peach tugged out of Metal Peach’s grip, and started fighting it. Mario had no choice but to turn around and defend himself. Mario easily disposed of the two Wire Frames by doing a spinning attack, but then Metal Bowser threw him across the hall into the far wall. The stone wall cracked and crumbled to the ground, revealing a steep drop. Mario shakily stood up to face the threat looming before him. There was another scream from Peach as Metal Peach dragged her through the gloomy doors. Mario attempted to find a way past the giant foe, but there was no escape. Metal Bowser breathed a gushing stream of flames, and as Mario fell with flames around him, he witnessed a flash of white light before he lost consciousness. [glow=green,2,300](stop music)[/glow]
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The balcony of the mansion had rows of pillars, and stone blocks of marble formed the surface of the vast perimeter. There was also a statue of a unicorn from which an icy aura swept through the group’s clothing (or armor) and sent a chill down their spines.
The sphere of cackling white Boos faded away, and Fox, Young Link, Samus, and Roy landed on the ground. Suddenly they all started hearing a different, deeper, louder laughter, and King Boo appeared in the middle of the balcony.
“What, who freed King Boo from the painting?” Young Link and the others gazed in horror as the hoard of Boos appeared behind King Boo. Samus shot a missile, but it went straight through them all, instead exploding into a leafless tree in the distance. Had they checked Professor E. Gadd’s old gallery, they would have discovered all of the previously captured ghosts to be missing from their paintings, including King Boo.
Everyone started running towards the door that led to the stairs. But the door was locked. Young Link used his grappling hook and hooked it onto a tree branch.
“Come on! Hurry!” Everyone held tightly onto the rope, and on three, they leaped off the treacherous balcony and swung to the branch. They swung back and forth until they stopped, then, one at a time, climbed up the rope and onto the tree. After a hard ten minutes of struggling to get down, the four acquaintances were on the ground, wondering which direction the trail was in. [glow=green,2,300](stop music)[/glow]
The narrow section between the Icicle Mountains and the Kanto Region is commonly known to be the most perilous part of the Spooky woods. Strange rumors about a giant metal cat terrify gossipers.
Yoshi, Pichu, Popo, and Jigglypuff decided to take this risk in order to avoid remaining in the Icicle Mountains. What could be worse than freezing to death in a blizzard? They thought, rationalizing what they were doing. It would not be long before they found out.
“YOWshi!” An apple had just fallen off a tree and slammed against Yoshi’s head. But wait a second. What kind of apples grow on such barren and lifeless trees as the ones of the Spooky Woods? They were just realizing the strangeness of what had occurred when a rock flew right out of the dark depths of the woods and nailed Yoshi in the noggin for a second time.
“Pichu Pi!” Pichu said, which meant something along the lines of, “I’m getting totally freaked out!”
Suddenly a levitating figure emerged from the darkness and blocked the path in front of them. It was the metal copy of the mythical feline Pokemon Mewtwo who had once upon a time been an experiment project of human scientists in a far-off land. Mewtwo was a master of using psychic energy to control everything and everyone around it.
Mewtwo used its mind to make them all rise up into the air, unable to move. Incapable of physically defending herself at the moment, Jigglypuff did the only thing she could do that would force metal Mewtwo to release them. She sang.
Metal Mewtwo didn’t see that one coming, as most of the time he had no trouble teleporting his catch to Master Hand’s fortress to be transformed into trophies, and focusing on communicating mentally his usual taunting lecture didn’t help the metal cat either. Before you could say “lullaby,” the practically uncontrollable Pokemon fell asleep, releasing his grip on the frightened characters. Several hours later, it would wake to rage over its first failure to accomplish Master Hand’s requests.
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Waluigi and Wario sprinted towards the dark alley ahead of them. There were lots of alleys in the Great Fourside City. But they had been running around the city performing tasks that their dark employer required of them.
“Hey, wait up!” Wario panted. He was very obese and couldn’t keep up with Waluigi’s long legs. Waluigi stopped for a couple seconds, and then together they entered the narrow alley.
“Is everything ready?” A figure emerged from the pitch blackness but it was still too difficult to make out any features. Wario and Waluigi nodded their heads vigorously.
“Excellent. Here is your reward. I will give you the remaining 2,000 coins when you have completed your assignments.” The figure tossed a small bag of coins to them, and slipped away while they fought over it. Finally, they thought, weeks of countless preparations are finally paying off! Or so they thought. [glow=green,2,300](stop music)[/glow]
END OF BOOK 1
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Character Locations
Beanbean Castle: Luigi, Kirby, Mr. Game and Watch, Prince PeasleySpooky Forest: Young Link, Roy, Fox, SamusSouth Spooky Forest: Pichu, Jigglypuff, Yoshi, PopoMaster Hand's Fortress: Marth, Ness
Outside Master Hand's Fortress: MarioBattlefields: Zelda, Link, Falco, Nana, Goombario, Shadow SirensVenom: Ganondorf, Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Tiny Kong, Lanky Kong, Chunky Kong, Bowser
Trophy: Pikachu, Princess Peach
??: GoombellaCredits Music: gh.ffshrine.org/song/2643/19
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Hope you liked it! Comments greatly appreciated!
It should get better because my writing skills improved dramatically during the process of writing this story (or so I think). I will have credits at the end of each book, each with better music than the last.
