Now begins DCC #8 in my revamped fanfic series, and while it was originally a spinoff fic that focused entirely on Arctic Bomber's so-called quest to riches, there may be some changes in comparison to what I posted on DeviantART (well, for those who did read my fic there), though it hardly matters now. As usual, here's the prologue!
DISCLAIMER: Bomberman is owned by Hudson Soft despite the company being absorbed unto Konami as of March 2012; WarioWare and Mario are properties of Nintendo. Contra belongs to Konami; Final Fantasy is a property of Square-Enix; Double Dragon was formerly owned by Technos Japan but nowadays is in Million's hands.
-Legend of the Mushroom Stones-
Prologue
ARCTIC BOMBER'S P.O.V.
Y'know...after my recent time-travel with Cheerful White and Cute Pink to restore world history's space-time continuum to its rightful condition, as well as 9-Volt's family by saving his mom (on our way back to the present, of course), I began looking up some interesting things about ancient history - mostly Egyptian. I still held my suspicions about Queen Cleopatra, but here's something I found. A story about the three Sacred Stones of Egypt told of a strange old woman, known as Hiruko, who came to the famed Double Dragons: Billy and Jimmy Lee, and told them about the stones along with the sudden disappearance of Marian, Billy's girlfriend. They began their journey to get the three stones, while coming across two guardians (Chin Seimei of China, and Yagyu Ranzou of Japan) along the way. When they finally arrived in Egypt, Hiruko revealed her true intentions, in which she wanted all the stones to gather power from Egypt to control the world. But, she made a mistake by carrying less than all four stones, which cost her her life by disintegrating her body into dust. Marian showed up, but was strangely possessed by Cleopatra's spirit. I don't know how exactly that happened, but the Lee brothers managed to free her.
Anyhoo, enough about the story. I've just found something similar: legend in Sarasaland, Princess Daisy's desert-themed kingdom located on the outskirts of the Mushroom Kingdom, foretells of five Mushroom Stones which held the key to unknown power within a pyramid. Apparently, nobody knows what power is sealed within, but they feared it would be dangerous if it fell into the hands of evil, so they simply scattered the stones out of the kingdom, and into the real world (our home planet Earth, if you will) in five different continents. Yeah yeah, I know, kinda corny at first glance, but maybe there's a chance for me to restore my winter-themed crystal castle that was destroyed last year during World War III! I've just gotta take the risk...
And on top of that, I can't let anyone in Diamond City find out about this; not Yuffie Kisaragi, not even my five fellow Contras - Aaron, Ami, Bill Rizer, Lance Bean, and/or Blaze Bomber - nobody but myself. Don't get me wrong: I've already learned my lesson and turned good several months ago. It's just that I don't want them or any of our WarioWare friends to be driven by greed like I once was.
END P.O.V.