NINTENDO WORLD
A/N: Here's Chapter 2, which features the introduction of the lovable character Samus Aran, the third member of Team Nintendo. Anyway, enjoy!
Chapter 2
Samus Aran, the New Member Arrives
Samus Aran, a young woman with blonde hair in a ponytail, and dressed in blue armour, was walking in World 1, with her blaster under her arm just in case disaster struck and she needed to use it on something. She checked the note that Toadsworth, the elderly Toad that assisted Princess Peach, had handed to her. 'Hmm... according to this note...' Samus thought to herself, 'Mario and Link should be somewhere in World 1.' She looked ahead of herself, and saw strange green pipes and small monsters crawling about. "What a strange land this is..." Samus stated to herself.
Samus had left for Mario's world the night before, but only reached the world in her spaceship the next day, at noon. She had thought to herself that Mario and Link had probably got quite far by now. She decided to sit down for a break, seeing as she had just walked for an entire hour non-stop. She sat on a pipe, and got some sandwiches. She ate them slowly, taking as long as she could due to the fact that she should enjoy a well deserved break. She spotted a strange creature coming out of a pipe; it was green, and had big, sharp teeth, and strange gaping eyes.
"What the hell is that?" Samus asked herself, as the creature, a Piranha Plant, spotted the young woman, and then licked its lips, desperately seeking some delicious prey. The creature opened its mouth, and shot out a blazing fireball at Samus. Fortunately, she dodged the attack, and then grabbed her blaster in fright. The Piranha Plant shot out another fireball, and Samus then decided to put her blaster to good use, by shooting the evil creature down. The dead monster slithered down into the pipe to some underground lair. Samus peeked down the pipe, but all she could see was darkness.
"What a bizzare creature..." Samus said, as she got up from the pipe she was sitting on, and decided to start walking again, hopping over the pipe that the Piranha Plant was in so that there was no danger of an accident occuring. She spotted a block with a question mark on it; curiously, she stood underneath, and shot upwards at the item. The block blew apart, but a strange mushroom emerged from it; the same kind that Mario had eaten earlier that day. To avoid being hurt, she left the mushroom alone, and kept on walking. She eventually reached a flagpole; she jumped onto it, and then she ran off again.
Meanwhile, Mario and Link were traveling through a strange fortress. It was made with grey bricks, and was very tall yet not very wide. Link noticed a strange skeletal being, which, to him, seemed like an undead skeleton of a Koopa Troopa. He grabbed his sword, and slashed the creature several times, the bones from the creature all scattering over the floor. Link stepped over the bones, but to his amazement, the bones reassembled, creating the original creature again. "What the heck?" Link said, as he looked for Mario, seeking some explanation.
"That creature was called-a Dry Bones." He explained, as the pair looked at the emotionless creature walk back and forth. "There are very few ways of killing them-a, you see. Slashing them with a sword, sadly, is not one of them." The duo walked off again, noticing a bottomless pit, with a platform next to it. "I think we will have to jump over the pit-a." Mario said, as he walked back a little bit to create enough space for a run-up, and then jumped over the pit, fortunately reaching the other side. "Ah, that was easy. Now it is your turn, Link."
Link reached over the pit, and handed his sword to Mario so that he wouldn't drop it down the pit. Then, he jumped over to the other side, and barely got there, hanging onto the edge for his life. "I could have a little help, y'know..." Link said, as Mario reached down, holding Link's forearm and pulling Link back onto the floor on his knees. Mario handed the sword back to Link, who held it carefully, and then stood up. "Thanks, Mario. You saved my life, y'know." He stated, as the pair started walking again. Eventually, they found a big red pair of doors.
Mario grasped one of the handles, and Link grasped the other, and they both pulled their respective doors open. When they looked through, they noticed a long corridor leading to a room. They both walked down the corridor, the sound of their footsteps loudly echoing throughout the passage way. Mario could hear strange laughter coming from the room at the end of the corridor. "Uh... what is that-a?" Mario asked, as the two slowly tiptoed down the corridor, and reached the room at the bottom. He noticed a spiked turtle with a bizzare blue hairstyle. "Oh no! Not you again!"
"Hey, look what the cat dragged in... Mario, isn't it?" The turtle giggled, as it ran over to Mario at a high speed. "I don't think I've ever told you my name, have I? I'm Larry Koopa! The youngest of the Koopalings!" Larry stated, waving his wand with a ruby at the end around. "Well, not counting Daddy's newest kid, Bowser Jr... I hate how he treats him better than us seven..." He scowled, his blue hairstyle waving about. "You're not gonna cause any harm, are you? Because Daddy's annoyed with how you treat us guys. He thinks you're very mean."
"Uh... Larry? We're in the middle of an investigation-a here, so could you just..." Mario explained, as he turned round and started to back through the corridor again. "Ooh, I know!" Mario said, as he turned round, facing Larry Koopa again. "Do you have any idea what happened to our dear Princess Peach?"
"WHAT! Just because Daddy kidnapped her nine times you think he'll do it again? You're so mean! A hur hur hur..." Larry cried, as Mario tried to calm him down. "What do you think you're doing?" Larry screamed, as he stopped crying and remembered something. "Wait a minute... Daddy said that if anyone was to ever cause trouble, I have to catch them. So, that's what I'll do!" Larry stated, as he stuck two fingers in his mouth and whistled. "Guards! Put these two 'visitors' in a cage. I'll ask them questions later..." Larry ordered the Dry Bones squad that just arrived. "Well, c'mon! Chop chop!"
The three Dry Bones carried Mario and Link away; one led the way, and the other two held the prisoner's arms. They walked through a set of corridors, until they finally reached a prison cell. The Dry Bones threw the prisoners into the cell, and then walked off emotionlessly away. Link sat on the cold floor, Mario sitting next to him. "Oh great. We've been kidnapped because Larry thinks we're gonna hurt him. Now why would we ever hurt him?" He looked at Mario, who just whistled and looked at the corner of the room. "Of course, you've hurt him sometimes..."
Mario sighed, and then jumped up into the air in delight. "I just remembered-a something! Didn't Toadsworth say that Samus, Kirby and Fox are on their way here?" Mario asked, as Link nodded his head. "Well, they will get into this fortress, and they'll be able to get us out of here!" Mario shouted, with a happy look on his face. "Well... hopefully..." Mario sighed, and then sat back down on the floor again. The prison cell was relatively dark and dusky, and there were cobwebs at the corners of the room. There was a small window, which showed the luscious fields of World 1.
Meanwhile, at the foot of the fortress, was Samus Aran. "Hmm... those creatures seem more dangerous now..." She said to herself, as she got her armour out, and dressed herself in it. She had a red helmet with a green triangular visor, and her armour had large circular shaped shoulder pads, and she had a blaster built into the armour's right arm. "Now I'll be able to endure hits more easily..." She said, as she started running through the building. She spotted a Dry Bones doing its patrol, and gleefully ripped it apart with her blaster. She then stepped over the mess, and shot some more Dry Bones on the way.
Samus looked up to the top of the fortress, and she spotted a pair of big red doors at the very top. She tried to think of a way to get up there, and she spotted some platforms going up and down without any kind of reinforcement at all. She jumped on the first platform, and waited patiently for it to float up. Once the platform reached the top, she jumped over to the same piece of floor the doors were on. She got a fright when she saw three Goombas running across the floor sideways. She charged up her blaster, and then completely destroyed the Goombas.
Once she reached the doors, she initially struggled to open them, but after opening them, she walked down the corridor, and reached Larry's room. "Who the heck are you...? Are you with Mario and his friend!" Larry asked in anger, as Samus was left to nod. "I see...Well, three prisoners in one cell is too much! So, I'm gonna deal with ya myself!" Larry shouted, as he opened his mouth, a fireball coming out of it. "Take this!" He shouted, as he grabbed a tennis racket, and let the fireball bounce, and then hit the fireball to Samus with his racket. Fortunately, Samus dodged it. "Grr..." Larry growled angrily.
"Just give in, kid." Samus said, as she turned around, angering Larry. "All I want to know is what you've done with my friends." Samus said, as Larry sniffed, and then pointed at a door which had some steps leading up to a set of corridors. "Thanks. We could have sorted this out a lot easier if you told me in a first place, you know." She stated, as she walked up the steps and towards the corridors. She reached the room that Mario and Link were in, and chuckled to herself. She pulled her armour off, and then shot the door's lock with her blaster. She then walked in. "Well, well. You two."
"Thanks, Samus. We weren't really waiting too long, though." Link said, as he stood up from the cold, hard floor, and then turned to Mario. "So, what now?"
"Oh, we're just continuing our mission-a... Find Princess Peach-a!" Mario said, as he headed for the door, and then faced his fellow teammates. "Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go to World 2!" Mario stated, as he walked down the corridor, his teammates, Samus and Link, following him on the way.
Next Time:
Chapter 3:
The Lovable, Pink Balloon
Mario, Link, and Samus have reached World 2, still seeking out Princess Peach. But when Morton Koopa Jr. fights them with his Dry Bones, how will Team Nintendo escape the danger...?