Post by bobsnicket on Sept 2, 2008 20:09:01 GMT -5
Chapter 15: The Other Laboratory
{5} Gadd vs. Reeka
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Reeka blasted higher and higher with his jetpack, the flames blazing from the device leaving a trail of black smoke. He reached the highest story and then, cackling, veered into a narrow octagonal opening which glowed with a modern blue radiance. Several seconds later, Gadd gave chase by following his rival into the opening on the Poltergust 5000. He had to persevere now, or else risk allowing his dangerous cousin to escape. But he had no idea where Reeka was leading him, and with the speed of this pursuit, he would have to be extremely careful.
The narrow tunnel gave the Poltergust a couple yards of leeway in each direction, but one wrong turn or jerk and it would all be over. The professor navigated quickly but cautiously through the passageway lit by more rings of fluorescent light, colored blue. Multicolored patches of red, green, and yellow flashed in and out, beeping faintly against the continuously sounding warning siren. Along the top and sides were also mechanical pulleys and magnetic conveyer belts moving in the same direction as him, bearing metal boxes and other obscurer shapes. As the tunnel curved up, down, left, and right, Reeka was usually not even in sight, although along straighter sections Gadd caught a brief glimpse of him before he turned another corner.
Finally, the passage sloped steeply downwards and then became a straight plummet. E. Gadd had to duck suddenly lower when a U-turning pulley above him bore a suspended mass of tangled metal pipes and wires around the bend at the same time the professor was curving down into the drop. The strange moving object brushed the gray tuft of hair on his head as he continued down, stabling out.
As he looked down, he saw the two jets of fire indicating U. Reeka’s jetpack flaring further down the tunnel. Desiring to stop his nemesis’ rampage as soon as possible, he fervently pressed a trigger on the right handle of his prototype, firing two beams of green lasers in the direction of his enemy. Unfortunately, at that moment, Reeka leveled out, swerving in a direction perpendicular to his current orientation, disappearing around the corner and proceeding forward. The green lasers burned uselessly into the curving floor below, leaving black scorch marks.
The Poltergust rumbled as at last it reached bottom, which (as has been mentioned) curved steeply back to horizontality, but also appeared to open up to a much larger room, ending the blue-lit tunnel. The good-willed scientist maneuvered his vehicle in a right angle accordingly and entered the expansive chamber beyond.
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Machines of all shapes, sizes, and functions made a huge amount of noise, even above that of the alarm. This was evidently the primary factory facility of the base, for all sorts of conveyor belts with assembly machines putting together all sorts of contraptions sloped up, down, and across the room. The ceiling was at least as high as the previous area. Along the vast walls were the dark circular windows which could be seen from the exterior. Finished products were grouped together in corners: several of the flying robotic cages from Chapter 4, the small hovering robots used to feed the spawning pods, and many, many other complicated machines which Gadd had never seen the like of before. All the black smoke went into a vent in the ceiling where it was discharged out of the spires on the roof of the black building. However, the fumes from all the gaseous smoke coming out of the huge assembly machines still made the air taste and smell horrid; in fact, one would likely faint from the toxicity if he were to remained in the factory for much more than an hour.
The professor saw his nemesis zoom across an active assembly line and curve upwards once more. Gadd followed carefully, barely able to see Reeka through the smoky air. He fired three more green laser beams as they ascended; two missed and ricocheted around the room until causing a machine to explode, and the third finally hit its mark. The right side of the jetpack ceased to function and simply smoked while the other side continued to run. The two relatives leveled out, but were now at least a hundred feet above the ground far below. Only the tallest and greatest of the producing machines rose all the way up to where they were or higher.
“Argh!” Professor U. Reeka seethed as his flight pattern was knocked out of proportion. He began to lurch this way and that, jerking suddenly and rapidly like a jinxed flying broomstick. E. Gadd had to try hard to follow and avoid colliding with him. As his jetpack sped up spasmodically, the evil scientist turned back to his cousin and fired several more jets of blue lightning from his watch.
Gadd cried out in shock and pain as the jets both electrocuted him fiercely and struck the Poltergust, causing it to explode. The force sent him flying sideways into the metal side of one of the largest machines, and his desperate fingers barely clung on to the top edge while currents of blue electricity still seared with agony through his body. Fortunately, the rays of lightning were not lethal because they had not had enough time to fully charge since their last use. But the professor’s fingers were beginning to slip because of weakness and the moisture of the air lessening the adhesiveness of his hands on the metal edge. Below, not only was there a one hundred foot drop, but an enormous cauldron-like container filled with a sickly, bubbling green liquid which was sure to be boiling hot.
Gadd built up a combination of strong will and determination, and pulled himself up as hard as he could while Reeka continued to flail uncontrollably in the air. He strenuously lifted himself onto the metal surface above. The only problem was, it was moving, for he was now on a narrow assembly line with a conveyor belt for a path. He looked up and rolled out of the way just in time before a giant steaming square stamped onto the spot where he had just been. The pull of the belt as he shakily stood up drew him back towards the now-rising stamping machine, so instead of running away from it, he dashed forward and ducked below it before it stamped again, looking at the rest of the assembly line in front of him. There were mechanical arms handling glowing, almost molten metal and pounding each piece into certain shapes. And at the end of the belt, the pieces dropped into what looked suspiciously like a furnace…
The professor looked down the side of the sheer metal wall to see Reeka still struggling for control over his malfunctioning jetpack, flying in jittering circles almost directly below. Gadd looked back at the mechanical arms and the furnace, and determined there was only one means of escape with even the slightest chance of survival--even if that chance was miniscule. After a brief hesitation, Gadd leaped off the conveyer belt, aiming with his body for the form of his enemy. He was successful, and even though both were sent tumbling down the shaft-like gap between machines, Professor U. Reeka had broken the fall, giving Gadd something to help lessen the force of the landing. Still, there was yet another issue: they were heading straight towards the cauldron of boiling green liquid, and the edges were several yards away on each side. But with the remains of the jetpack’s energy, Reeka caused them to accelerate just far enough to avoid dropping into the liquid, and instead they conveniently fell into a hole leading into a sloped tunnel which continued forward and slightly downward. They slid smoothly into the circular tunnel, reducing the consequences of the fall to almost nothing.
After a matter of seconds of sliding down the smooth metal chute, Reeka in front, they popped out in what appeared to be an underground division. And judging by the content of this area, it was where U. Reeka practiced his most secret, dangerous, and horrible experiments.
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What Gadd first noticed were the tall glass containers in which bubbled liquids ranging from green to red to blue. And also within these large tubes were submerged figures; some were curled up or shadowy and impossible to identify, while others could actually be recognized. For instance, the professor could not mistake the floating Goomba, Waddle Dee, Wolfos, Starman (the Earthbound one, not the bouncing golden star with eyes), Banana Fairy, Metroid, Aparoid, and Magnemite inside each of the domed tubes. There was even a muscular-looking man from the F-Zero Grand Prix with round black glasses and a yellow vest, and in the last tube was another man with a shock of blue hair, a headband, a cape, boots, and gloves. This, Gadd thought, reminded him in many ways for some reason of Marth. Each figure floated up and down inside one of the domes, which were arranged in rows and columns throughout the small cavern. This underground lair had rock walls, floor, and ceiling, with small stalactites pointing down from above. At the far end was a large flat metal table on which there were various straps used to attach things (most likely limbs), and connected to it by several thick wires was a large rectangular machine positioned against the rock wall with dials, buttons, levers, switches, keypads, and a small screen in the middle. Beside this machine where the rest of the rock wall would have been was instead a glass wall behind which was a small enclosed area completely barren of any sort of object. It was similar to the room from Donkey Kong 64 in which King K. Rool used to listen to his minions babble about why they had failed to defeat the Kongs. On the left wall was a single heavily bolted door from which strange sounds could be heard; Gadd did not like to think about what was behind it. Finally, near the right wall was something very familiar, but the familiarity did not lift the professor’s spirits much, for it was yet another of the fancy mechanisms used to transform things into trophies; and of course, near the machine itself was a stack of trophy stands and a chair with chains on it. It was very quiet except for a low humming sound coming from the machines and the frightening noises resounding from behind the steel door. The whole room was lit well by bright white lights from the ceiling, and the air was kept in circulation by fans and vents in the ceiling, but this did not take away from the intense fear E. Gadd felt as he entered the lair of his evil cousin’s darkest designs.
Reeka immediately walked forward with his hands together behind his back. He gazed at each of the sleeping figures suspended in liquid. Then, when he reach the end of the rows of glass domes where the metal table was near the glass wall, he turned around and smiled wickedly at Gadd, showing off his disturbingly pointy teeth.
“This is where it all ends, Elvin,” he said. “After all the effort you’ve gone through just to vanquish me, this is where you will finally come to realize it has all been in vain. For look around you!” Reeka gestured with his hands to his many corrupt inventions and experiments. “Even a mind such as yours does not understand the full wonder of what I have achieved, and will yet achieve. I have been able to mass-produce Master Hand’s armies; I have created a machine to convert a living being into an immobilized state; and I have discovered the secret to combine and transmogrify two creatures into one new, superior slave. In the future, perhaps, we shall do away with these trophy machines and come up with a smaller, wieldable gun model instead. But for now, this is the epitome of technology; none of your fireworks or vacuums will ever amount to what I will accomplish!” Then his insane grin changed suddenly to a hateful grimace. “But you do not deserve any recognition. You should be obliterated into nothingness and cease to exist even as a faint memory. So I have now devised the perfect method in which to dispose of you forever in the most humiliating, ludicrous, and regrettable way possible. You probably didn’t expect me to have…this…” With gusto, Professor U. Reeka dramatically drew out a Poltergust, handheld like Luigi’s. “Yes, I have come into possession of one of your own useless trinkets; I won’t even bother telling you how. Only this trinket, it so happens, I have modified to actually make it useful, so instead of simply sucking up pathetic ghosts or dust bunnies, this one does the reverse: it vacuums living beings--such as yourself. So prepare, Elvin, to be devoured by your own creation, mutated into a hideously unrecognizable monster, and then sent back into the Battlefields where you will be slain by your own followers…” The mad scientist now laughed so loudly and maliciously that he would almost match one of Bowser’s roars, and prepared to turn the Poltergust on, watching his cousin’s expression in lunatical amusement.
But to his utter surprise, Gadd only smiled back toothily. “You never did have the respect to use a professor’s full title, Ulysses.” Professor Ulysses Reeka twitched in anger at the use of his embarrassing first name. “And luckily for me,” Elvin continued, “I happen to have another trick up my sleeve as well…no pun intended.” And indeed, the professor reached into the right sleeve of his lab coat and pulled out a rod-like object which he held up like a wand. But at the end of the rod was a circle with a familiar insignia upon it and a brush colored with mixed hues and dripping a magical goopy substance. “I have also come into possession of something of yours, Ulysses. This magic brush…which you gave to Bowser’s son a couple years ago so he could terrorize the inhabitants of Delfino Island and attempt to execute revenge on Mario. You even spread the rumor that I made the brush myself, and that Bowser Jr. had stolen it from me, in order to hurt my reputation for inventing safe, useful products. Well, now, my bad cousin, it will be you meeting your end via your own dastardly devices. That is, unless you accept my final offer of unconditional surrender and swear to cease your experimenting which has caused--and is currently causing--so much death and pain. Despite your treachery, I do not wish to kill you, Ulysses…I will only do what I must to ensure the victory and protection of the free Nintendo World…”
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“You will try,” Reeka jeered as he switched on the modified Poltergust. But instead of a moderately sized area of vacuuming, the machine reached across the entire room, pulling all the way to the other end, which included E. Gadd. However, since everything else on Gadd’s side of the lair was bolted firmly to the ground, nothing else seemed to be affected by the pull except a small, worn picture frame which image the professor did not have time to see before being subjected to the force of the pull himself. So great was the pull that he was nearly lifted airborne as he was forced towards the nozzle of the vacuum. As he was forcibly pulled forward, Gadd grasped hold of the side of one of the glass containers and pushed himself behind it to where he would hopefully be safe from the blast. But the round glass precluded him from remaining still, for the air rushing past him caused him to begin slipping either one way or the other.
Finally, determining that he would have to go on the offensive, Gadd took Reeka’s magic paintbrush and smacked it into the glass dome, shattering it and causing the shards to fly towards Reeka. And along the way, the shards cracked and split open other glass tubes as well and created a chain reaction, resulting in the breaking open of just about every glass container. And of course, this resulted in the pouring out of the various liquids in which the figures were submerged onto the ground, drenching Gadd’s boots and the bottom of his coat. The figures themselves collapsed onto the bottom of the domes, where the remaining glass shielded them from being sucked up. The positive effect of this strategy was that the shards, while for the most part absorbing into the vacuum, now and then strayed off and struck the scientist behind it, necessitating him to duck for cover behind the metal table.
This also gave Gadd time to paint a colorful circular portal in front of him, jump hastily through it, and then appear behind the confused maniac. Reeka, unable to see Gadd’s position because he was so close to the ground, continued to hold the Poltergust in position, awaiting his cousin’s imminent defeat. He cackled as the old picture of Professor E. Gadd vanished into the vacuum. But when he was beginning to wonder where Elvin could be and how he could have remained hidden so long, he heard a monstrous earsplitting roar behind him. Slowly, Reeka turned around to face the source of the sound (while still holding the vacuum in the other direction).
A dripping, flowing pool of thick, goopy red liquid served as the home of the vicious Piranha Plant swaying above, made entirely of shimmering paint. It bellowed again in rage, Gadd standing grimly next to the puddle with the paintbrush still in hand.
“You have no place in this world, cousin,” was the last thing Ulysses Reeka heard before he was engulfed by a goopy mouth and was no more.
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The pile of goop, at Gadd’s will, disintegrated into nothing along with the Piranha Plant and Professor U. Reeka. The exhausted professor wiped his forehead with tiredness, and looked at the nearby screen on the rectangular machine. He noticed several pictures of pairs of two creatures and double-sided arrows in between them. The Shadow Queen and Floormaster…Petey Piranha and Gohma…Mr. Patch and Giant Dragonfly... There were more, but then a blaring female intercom voice could be heard even from belowground.
“SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE INITIATED. COMMENCEMENT WILL BEGIN IN ONE MINUTE. 59…58…”
Gadd smiled faintly. Well, done, R.O.B.’s, he thought. They have fulfilled what I programmed them to do…but this is no place for a sane scientist… He looked at the previously unconscious figures from the glass domes which were beginning to wake up and rise in confusion. Nor for any of these poor beings, either…
Without delay, E. Gadd set to work painting an enormous portal across the glass wall until it was one great colorful shimmering rectangle. “Fellows!” the professor shouted to the freed specimens. “This place will soon explode. You must all help each other to escape through this portal, and then, if you have the strength, join with the Great Nintendo Army in defeating Master Hand’s remaining forces. Can you do this? For I must leave.”
Samurai Goroh and Lord Ike, the strongest of the bizarre group, looked at each other and nodded wearily but firmly. They began to assist others who were in worse condition than they (the Metroid and Aparoid, thankfully, was dead).
“Good! Farewell, then. You must have been through a terrible ordeal, but have patience and all will be satisfied.” With that, Professor E. Gadd jumped through the paint and came out a good distance away from the black lab, from which R.O.B.’s were still fleeing. Now he had no living relatives remaining.
“3…2…1…” the mechanized voice spoke distantly before the entire base went up in a huge deafening explosion. However, it seemed that Gadd had underestimated the blast radius; the fiery self-destruction continued to consume ground beyond what he could have ever expected--but then again, this was still Reeka’s work; he should have expected his evil cousin to plan, in the event of his failure, the death of his conqueror at all costs. Now he and the R.O.B.’s would go down with the work of Professor Ulysses Reeka. He closed his eyes as death approached…until a close, echoing, somehow magical voice sounded…
“Eeko Boko Eeko Boko Mo-me-ni-mu, Mo-me-ni-mu, Eeko Boko Eeko Boko Eeko Boko Eek-yo Ob…” Mumbo Jumbo’s voice repeated this foreign phrase over and over again as he, with Humba Wumba beside him, faced the exploding base next to Gadd with his hands raised up in concentration (as well as Humba’s). The two shamans had created a translucent wall of blue energy (not unlike the one in Chapter 14) which, when it came, held back the raging force and protected those beyond its boundaries. The wall encircled the blast, containing it within its defensive limits. Only a few R.O.B.’s were consumed before they crossed the magical barrier into safety. The explosion pounded against the strong walls for some time before finally subsiding.
“Bu-gi-deh,” Mumbo finished with satisfaction as the blast died away and the shamans ceased to hold up their magical barrier. He and Humba came towards Gadd and the specimen escapees smiling triumphantly.
The professor could only smile back; there was no need for words of gratitude now. No way at the moment to fully express his thankfulness for the shamans’ indispensable, lifesaving assistance. Now Gadd’s thoughts, although disturbed by the unavoidable loss of his cousin, turned to the most important thing. He gazed at the ashen lab remains and then to the northeast where the rest of the Alliance continued to fight almost tirelessly. By this point the entire spawning fields had been overtaken, but the thousands of Wire Frames who they had passed by were coming back upon them. Our part is complete, he thought grimly. We can only hope Mario and the others have had equal success…
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Character Locations
NORTHERN BATTLEFIELDS:
Armies: Pokemon, Bowser's Army, Dedede's Army (fled), Mushroom Kingdom, Beanbean Kingdom, Host of Hyrule (minus Hylian Soldiers), Delfinians, Waffle Kingdom, Shy Guys
Heroes: Bowser, Young Link, Ganondorf, Goombario, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Mr. Game & Watch, Prince Peasley, Toad, Lance, Wes, Gary
Villains: (known) King Boo
SOUTHERN BATTLEFIELDS:
Armies: Kongo Jungle, K. Rool's Army, Icicle Mountains, Yoshis, Jinjos
Heroes: Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Lanky Kong, Tiny Kong, Dixie Kong, Professor E. Gadd, Banjo & Kazooie, Mumbo Jumbo, Humba Wumba, Dr. Mario
CENTER FORMATION:
Armies: Fire Emblem, Star Warriors, Hylian Soldiers
Heroes:Kirby, Bomberman, Link, Marth, Ness, Pac-man, Mario, Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Ice Climbers, Roy, Fox, Falco, Slippy, Peppy, Shadow the Hedgehog
Villains: (known)
MISCELLANEOUS/VARYING:
Armies: Cornerian Fleet, Bounty Hunters, Timber's Island, The Great Sea
Heroes: Pit, Wolf, Leon, Panther, Shadow Sirens, Diddy Kong, Rito Postman
[glow=yellow,2,300]Trophy:[/glow] Pikachu, Princess Peach, Samus, Chunky Kong, Sonic, Wario, Waluigi, Captain Falcon[glow=purple,2,300]Captive:[/glow] Goombella, Toadette, Princess Zelda
[glow=gray,2,300]DECEASED:[/glow] The Shadow Hand, Bottles, Orca, 49 Hammer Bro Soldiers, Pigma, Nascour, Darunia, Professor U. Reeka
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