Post by bobsnicket on Nov 24, 2007 15:42:11 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,300]Book 2: The Great
Fourside City[/glow]
Fourside City[/glow]
Chapter 6: Reunion
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Fox, Samus, Roy, and Young Link were searching desperately for the trail when they heard someone crying. They all followed the sound to the backside of an old barren oak tree, in which there was a gaping hole that was just large enough for the small weeping figure huddled inside.
It was none other than Toad, Peach’s loyal servant.
“What’s wrong?” asked Fox, pretending to be concerned. Toad looked up.
“Who are you? I hope you didn’t go near that scary mansion that Mario got lost in last year. Anyway, Toadette and I were exploring when a purple hand appeared out of the ground and took her! I’ve been here ever since, wondering what to do. Can you help me?”
“On one condition,” said Fox, “if you can get us out of this forest, we’ll let you come with us. There have been disappearances from our lands as well, so maybe there is a connection.”
Toad jumped up and down happily, saying, “Yippee! You’ve made my dark and stormy night! Now, about getting out of the Spooky Forest, I believe we need to travel a bit south, then go west.”
So they followed the Toad’s directions, unaware of what challenges lay ahead.
Mario woke up outside of Master Hand’s stronghold. Luckily, he had not fallen off the table, but he was barely alive. All of his clothes and his lush mustache were scorched. He was hidden by the protective branches of the plastic forest.
Too weak to stand up, Mario lay there for many hours, maybe days. The model forest was completely silent, except for his own breathing.
Suddenly, out of the strangely actual-dirt ground popped a goggle-eyed mole that really needed to lose some weight.
“Are you okay?” the strange rodent asked. Mario groaned. “I’ll take that as a no. Here, let me take you to my underground hideout. There we can nurse you back to full health. By the way, my name is Bottles, and I am a member of the Resistance, that is, I want to help defeat Master Hand.”
What the mole was saying was interesting, but Mario dozed off anyway.
After a day and a half of tiring walking, the weary travelers finally exited the Spooky Forest. They were nearing the famous Pokefloats, which many regard as a fantastic place, full of huge inflated Pokemon and towering buildings. But as they neared Saffron City, there was not a single float in the air to be found.
Everyone wondered what had happened to the place. But when they got closer, it all became clear.
An army of Wire Frames were marching through the city, bordered by a couple of metal characters. The entire city was in peril, and the city hall was burning. The few Pokemon brave enough to rebel were knocked out.
“Jigglypuff!” Jigglypuff cried, which meant something along the lines of, “We’ve got to do something about this!”
“We can’t,” Popo said sadly, “there’s way too many of them. We should go around the city and continue before we are spotted.”
The Pokemon were still waiting for a hopeful twist that would bend the plot of the story in their favor and make them happy. As it turned out, that’s exactly what they received.
A smooth blue bomb bowled right into the middle of the Wire Frame army and detonated, large enough to wipe out the majority of the grouped enemies, but too small to damage any buildings.
Out of the smoke stepped Bomberman, a determined look on his mouthless face, and another bomb in one hand. The small remainder of the army fled (including Metal Luigi and Marth), and the city (most of it) was saved.
Luigi and friends had a right to feel satisfied after the deed they had done for Beanbean Castle Town. But everyone, especially Luigi, instead was overcome with worry and dread. Progress was agonizingly slow for them, and Luigi didn’t know how much more of it he could stand without a hot bowl of mushroom soup. Of course, Queen Bean had equipped them with all the food and supplies they could carry, but frankly, he was burned out on beans. Luigi thought there must be some way to move faster before Master Hand did something terrible to Mario and the Princess. Perhaps he already had.
They were still walking through the Beanbean Kingdom, and no doubt there were others who had had similarly terrifying experiences, and were on their way to Master Hand’s room as well. Kirby had the most experience with Master Hand, so they had to be the first to get there.
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That’s when Prince Peasley, from his cloud, saw an approaching figure in the sky.
“What’s that?” Peasley exclaimed. Everyone looked up at the unidentified flying object, and Luigi, with plenty of time to visit other kingdoms due to a lack of adventures, was the first to recognize it.
“The Great Fox!” Luigi called out to the craft that was now flying right over them. Everyone else did the same, and eventually the Great Fox came to a landing in a nearby clearing.
The door slid open, and out came the familiar faces of Slippy Toad and Peppy Hare. Slippy stepped towards them. “I heard you guys needed to get somewhere faster?”
Everyone was devastated and temporarily stunned after the terrible event that had just occurred, especially Goombario. But now they were sure of what their mission was: to warn the world about the swiftly-growing threat of Master Hand and the Shadow Queen (so they thought), and to help put a stop to it.
At first glance the Battlefields don’t appear as such a vast and threatening place. But most who are familiar with the Battlefields describe it as deceiving, dangerous, cursed, enchanted, bewitched, strange, monstrous, weird, purple, etc (not to mention seemingly endless, unpleasant, undesirable, flashing, legendary, fiendish, or occupied by unusual beings).
There was no doubt that they were lost. With no clue as to their whereabouts or in what direction they were traveling, they continued in what they guessed to be forward.
It looked as if no other living thing existed in the Battlefields, but only because its inhabitants have found so many clever ways to conceal themselves from the naked eye.
“Hey, I think I see something!” Falco exclaimed. They all gazed at the dazzling city lights in the distance.
“Yeah, but it’s at the top of that large hill!” Nana pointed out.
“Who cares? We’ve finally reached the end of this seemingly endless Battlefield! Everyone, let’s go!”
So everyone started sprinting and running towards the distant city. And for hours they went up the hill, but for some odd reason, the city never got any closer. Three more hours and they were wearily trudging up the hill.
“This is getting us nowhere!” Zelda said while catching her breath. “We must have missed a sign or something that warned us about this.”
“Wait a second,” Nana recalled, “I think I did see a sign of some kind.” So they climbed the oddly short distance back down the hill, and saw the billboard posted a few feet away. Nana read its contents aloud:
WARNING: ALL WHO WISH TO EXIT THE
BATTLEFIELDS MUST RETRIEVE THIS KEY:
AND INSERT IT INTO THIS KEYHOLE: (keyhole here)
“And then the paper attached to it reads, ‘P.S. Look for it thoroughly, for it is hidden somewhere in the Battlefields. Good luck!’” Nana finished.
Everyone knows that monkeys, turtles, F-Zero racers, and evil lords don’t have the slightest ability to read. This is why none of them paid attention to the sign reading, “Onett” above the arched portal on the planet Venom.
So they all flew through the arch/portal, and came out on the other side in the midst of a bright, sunny sky, zooming cars, and kids with psychic powers.
In fact, the only reason why they weren’t hit by an incoming semi-truck was because DK saw a banana down the street right before it was flattened by rubber tires.
Tension was growing throughout the Great Fourside City. Noble or wicked, every resident or visitor had the distinct feeling that something was going to happen soon that would change the world for better or for worse (or possibly both?). As usual, the city gates and entrances were guarded, but that did not prevent worry from flowing rapidly throughout the enormous city. All anyone could do was sit and wait, but still, many were now loosely considering the possibility of relocating to the Mushroom Kingdom.
The Great Fourside City in the Nintendo World was only created from the images in Super Smash Bros. Melee, so there were many features and events in this city that did not occur in its original Earthbound city. In fact, this city wasn’t even related, just carried the same name because the author felt a need to use this setting without knowing a thing about it. Among its most distinguishing features were Master Snifit’s Grande Hotel, in which thousands of interesting and dull visitors stayed in every night, the famous Fourside Colosseum in which amazing sixty-four-participant tournaments were held each year and were highly anticipated by a large percentage of Fourside City’s residents (which happened to be only a week or so away at this point in the story), and even a mysterious lobby with two constantly locked doors, one of which was rumored to lead to a different dimension, neither of which anyone has been known to enter.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Character Locations
Great Fox: Luigi, Kirby, Mr. Game and Watch, Prince Peasley, Slippy Toad, Peppy HareSpooky Forest: Young Link, Roy, Fox, Samus,ToadSaffron City: Pichu, Jigglypuff, Yoshi, Popo, BombermanMaster Hand's Fortress: Marth, Ness
Outside Master Hand's Fortress: MarioBattlefields: Zelda, Link, Falco, Nana, Goombario, Shadow SirensOnett: Ganondorf, Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Tiny Kong, Lanky Kong, Chunky Kong, Bowser
Trophy: Pikachu, Princess Peach
??: Goombella, Toadette-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Okay, so this chapter isn't exactly better than the last one, but trust me, it WILL get better! The plot thickens in chapters 7 and 8, so just be patient! Table of Contents updated!
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