The second chapter is here! So how was the previous chapter? Very good compared to the original, right? Now how about this?
Chapter 2: The Hole on the Wall and Reed's ExamOriginal title: The Hole on the Wall
In Room 010, a college student name Reed A. Buke lives there. "The final exam is coming up 5 days later," Reed reminds himself. "I must pass it no matter what! Now I will dedicate myself into hard studying! That is the only way to pass the exam!" So he sits in front of his desk and begins studying.
Shortly after he begun, he hears a knocking on the wall. "Hey! Be quiet back there! Don't hit the wall!
Falco is behind the wall, hammering a nail on it. "Can't I hang a picture?"
"You're disturbing me! Do it next time, okay?"
So the hammering stops, and Reed is able to concentrate once again. But a few minutes later, there was more knocking on the wall. "Doh! I told you to stop knocking!"
"Can you just let me hang this picture?" Falco shouts back, annoyed.
"I told you to do it next time! You're annoying me!"
"Oh yeah? A simple knocking like this is annoying you? How about this?" Falco pounds the wall rapidly, making several loud noises against it.
"Stop it! I have enough!" Reed angrily throws a plastic cup at the wall. When hit, a crack appears on the wall! "Oh no! What have I done!"
A small part of the wall falls off and Falco looks through it. "This has nothing to do with me."
"It's also part of your fault! You shouldn't have hit the wall!"
"Well, you're the one who made the crack in the first place!"
"Argh! Forget it! We must seal the wall fast!" Reed got some tape and put all the wall fragments back up and tapes it. "Now we will push from both sides so that the fragments will stick!"
"Got it!" replies Falco, so the two push from their own rooms, trying to make the wall stick together. Unfortunately, Falco has much more strength than Reed, and he ends up pushing right through the wall, creating a hole about the size of an average car tire.
"NOOOOO!" screams Reed. "You pushed too hard!"
"You shouldn't push to light either!" protests Falco.
"Now what do we do! There is a hole on the wall and the landlord won't be happy to see this!"
Shortly after this event, the rest of Room 009's residents come in. When they ask about the hole on the wall, Falco tells them Reed did it.
"You're also involved in it!" Reed says to Falco.
"All right, don't argue now," says Fox. "It's useless arguing over this. We have to decide what to do with this hole."
"What can we do?" asks Luigi. "Should we tell the landlord?"
"Better not!" Reed warns him. "The landlord will force us all out if she sees this! It is better to hide it from her."
"Now that we finally found a place to stay in, we do not want to get kicked out!" says G&W. "I agree we should hide it from her."
"How?" asks Dr. Mario.
Mario got a cloth and covers it over the hole. "There! We do not-a have to worry about-a eet. In fact, I think-a theez hole is also good. Eet makes da rooms connect-a together and there will be plenty of space."
"Mario has a point," says Luigi.
Reed drops to his knees and cries. "No… How can I ever concentrate on my exam study when there is a big hole here to worry about…"
"Don't worry, I can help you," Fox tells him. "I am the smartest of the Smashers and have graduated from one of the best colleges. I can help you with your studies."
"Fox is right," Falco tells Reed. "Study with him and you're instantly the next Einstein."
So Fox crawls through the hole and into Reed's room. "Let me see your textbook." Reed lends him his textbook and Fox reads through it. "This is all too easy! I can make you understand it in a jiffy!"
So Fox begins teaching Reed about the subject. "First, you use the equation and the theory of this and that…"
This kept on going and going for about an hour. Reed eventually fell asleep due to the long and boring lecture. "And to conclude them all, the chicken will cross the road!" says Fox, ending the lesson. "Hey, are you listening to me?"
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This kept on going until the exam day is coming tomorrow…
Reed is in his room worrying about the exam. "The exam day is tomorrow… I'm afraid I can't pass it! Thinking of it makes my head hurts!"
G&W pokes his head through the hole and into his room. "Reed, come dine with us tonight! You'll feel better that way." Reed happily accepts the offer and goes to their room through the door, because he is too fat to fit through the hole.
They all sit down in Room 009 and have a fun time eating and chatting. Fox raises his cup and says, "Let us give cheers to Reed and hope that he passes his exam tomorrow!"
"Cheers!" say the others as they raise their cup too.
"You guys are so nice," says Reed happily. "I have never met someone as helpful as you!"
"Sure! Eet eez important to help-a people in need!" says Mario.
"So what college do you go to?" G&W asks Reed.
"COE," replies Reed.
Upon hearing this, the Smashers are shocked and at the same time amazed. "COE!" they all exclaim, and then their minds begin to wander.
"COE, that's the College of Eagleland!" thought Fox. "It is ranked as one of the world's top 3 colleges!"
"If he studies in COE, then that means he has a bright future ahead of him!" thought Falco.
"If he passes the exam, then he will become a great character!" thought G&W.
"What wonderful talents he has to enter this college!" thought Dr. Mario.
"If he becomes a great person from passing this exam, then he will surely reward us greatly!" wonders Luigi. He imagines Reed awarding them with lots of moneys and wonderful things.
"He must-a have great intelligence to go to that-a college!" thought Mario. "He must-a want to be a great person like a lawyer or professor in da future!"
G&W snaps to reality and stands in front of Reed as if defending him. "Now Reed needs some sleep so he can take the exam tomorrow!" he says to everyone. "Nobody disturbs him!"
"You too!" Reed tells him.
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After they're all done for the night, Reed goes to bed and tries to get some sleep. He can't sleep, as the exam tomorrow is bothering him greatly. "Man, I can't sleep… Thinking of the exam makes me worry…"
G&W pokes his head out of the hole and suggests that he count sheep. Reed begins counting sheep, "1 sheep, 2 sheep, 3 sheep, 4 sheep… It's useless… I still can't sleep."
"Why not count jets?" suggests Falco.
"1 jet, 2 jets, 3 jets, 4 jets, 5 jets… I still can't…"
"I know! Count beautiful ladies! That'll work!" suggests Luigi.
"1 beauty, 2 beauties, 3 beauties, 4 beauties… AHHHH! I can't take it! The beauties are stripping off their clothes!"
"So good…"
"There's only one thing to do left!" says Falco. "And that is to drink until you're drunk!" He got a bottle of beer and two glass cups and crawls through the hole to Reed's room. "If ever I'm drunk, I fall asleep easily." He pours a cup and hands it to Reed. "Here, drink it. Surely you're in the legal age for drinking."
"I am. Thanks!" Reed accepts the cup. So they both drink and drink and drink… Eventually, Falco got so drunk that he drops onto the floor and falls asleep, but Reed still can't sleep! It's mostly due to Falco's snoring and the smell coming out from his mouth. "I still can't sleep…"
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The next morning…
Reed wakes up with black rings around his eyes. "I couldn't sleep the whole night…"
Mario pokes his head through the hole and says, "Good-a morning! Come eat-a breakfast with us!" So Reed washes himself and goes over to their room to eat breakfast.
After eating breakfast, Reed quickly goes and packs his stuff and then wears his shoes. While tying his shoes, a shoelace snaps off and he is struck deeply. "The shoelace broke!"
G&W quickly calms him. "Don't worry! Breaking a shoelace is part of life! I broke many before but I'm still happy!"
After this, they all leave the apartment to accompany Reed to the college. As they turn around the apartment corner, Reed slips on a banana peel and falls to the ground. "OW!"
Luigi picks up the banana peel and says, "Who threw this here? That person should be fined!"
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In Room 003, Jack and Albert are eating bananas while spying on the condominium across them. "The bananas sure are tasty around these days," says Jack while munching on a banana.
"It's banana season, that's why," replies Albert.
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The group of 7 continues walking until the college is in sight. "I'll have to go alone from here," says Reed.
"Hope you do well!" says Fox.
"Give it all you got!" Falco tells him.
"Good luck!" says G&W.
"Believe in yourself!" Dr. Mario says to him to encourage him.
"You can do it! We're rooting for you!" says Luigi.
"See you later!" says Mario.
So Reed goes into the college and the Smashers return to the apartment.
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That evening, Reed finally returns to his apartment. As soon as he got to the second floor, he is greeted by Captain Falcon. "Reed! You're back!" says CF. "They told me everything already. So how's the exam?"
"I did well, but I'm not sure whether I passed or not. The results will be shown 3 days later," says Reed.
"Don't look down on yourself. If you look on the bright side, miracles will happen!"
As Reed returns to his room, Mario appears from his room and says, "Reed-a! You're back! Come have dinner with us!" So Reed goes to Room 009 for dinner.
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3 days later…
"Oh boy… The results will be shown today!" says Reed anxiously. "I'm so scared to go! What if I failed?"
"Don't say that! You should look forward to it!" says Falco.
"Right. We will go with you," G&W tells him. So Reed goes to tie his shoes, and once again snaps a shoelace. Once again, G&W has to calm him down with encouraging words.
They leave the apartment and as they turn around the corner, a chessboard flies out the window and knocks Reed on the head. "OW!"
"Who threw this?" asks Luigi.
Marth appears from the window above them and says, "Can you give back the chessboard? Roy lose to me 10 times in a row and angrily threw the board out."
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Eventually, they got to the college and enter together. In the front lobby room, there is a large board filled with names of all the people who passed the exam. "I SEE IT! MY NAME IS THERE!" shouts Reed with joy. "I HAVE PASSED THE EXAM! YAHOOO!"
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So they all return to the apartment and have a big celebration over this. "Three cheers to Reed for passing the exam!" says Fox.
"Hip hip hooray!" cheer the others.
"I'm so happy to pass the exam!" says Reed happily.
"Congratulation! You are now a graduate of COE!" says Dr. Mario.
"Yes! I'm so glad to graduate from College of Economics!"
The Smashers stop what they're doing and look at him. "College of… Economics…?" asks Luigi.
"Yeah. I want to take business in the future, so I entered that school. What's wrong?"
The Smashers look at him with strange looks. "You know what?" Falco asks him. "I just figured out that this celebration is of no worth!"
END OF CHAPTER
So that ends another chapter. Sure came fast, right? How do you like it? Review please!