I'm REALLY sorry for not updating this for a while you guys. I've been having a rough week so far so it's kind of keeping me away from fic writing. Also, school for me has started so I'll be updating less frequently than before.

Knuckles, Rouge, Toad and Toadette all carefully got up from the ground, after having been knocked over from the grenade explosion.

"Ugh...you guys all right?" Rouge said, wiping the dirt off her clothes.

"Yeah, I'm fine, but who the heck threw that grenade? That thing seriously came out of nowhere!" Toad said.

"I don't know but it's probably someone who's been stalking us and is good at laying low. We need to be more aware of our surroundings from now on." Knuckles said.

"Hey, where are the others at?" Toadette asked.

"I dunno. I guess they must have all ran away from the explosion or something..." Rouge sighed.

"I know that we should look for them but we do need to get a move on because this area isn't safe. Shadow might come over here or that idiot who threw the grenade might strike again. Come on!" Knuckles leaded and the group went back into the forest.

"So guys, what's it like living in a world full of talking mushrooms, koopas, monkeys and sea-shelled creatures?" Rouge asked.

"Oh, it's nothing special unlike what so many other people think. The only times when it gets exciting are when Bowser kidnaps Peach, birthday parties are thrown or events are being held. Other than that, our world is pretty boring, except from a foreigners point of view. What about you guys?" Toad asked.

"Pretty much the same as you guys. Fighting crime and hunting for jewels is not the same as it use to be in the old days. I'd rather live in your guys' world for a long time." Rouge said.

"Wow. That's how we feel too. I guess we think alike despite the conflicts we've had in the past." Toadette said, smiling a little bit.

Knuckles stopped walking.

"What's wrong Knuckles?" Rouge asked, getting nervous.

"I could've sworn I heard something." Knuckles said, squinting at his surroundings.

"Get your bat out, Toad." Toadette whispered. Toad follow her directions and got out his metal bat.

"I don't hear anything. I think you're just being overly-cautious, Knuckles..." Rouge said. Knuckles rolled his eyes.

"I'm telling you, I heard something! I'm not moving from this spot until I determine what it is." Knuckles worriedly said, getting out his machete.

"Here, I'll use my binoculars to see if someone's around." Rouge said, getting them out. She peered into and looked all around at the area. Nothing. Wait, hold on a second...she spotted something in the tree a few feet away from them.

"RIGHT THERE! THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE TREE OVER THERE!" Rouge screamed and pointed to it. They all stood in a ready position.

"What is it? Who is it?" Toad quickly asked.

"It's...someone, I think. I'm not sure. This thing looks like a blue blob, too many branches and leaves are in the way to get a better look." Rouge explained.

Suddenly, a whirring sound was heard. A knife was thrown into Toad's head so fast, that nobody saw it coming.

Toad stumbled around for a minute then fell down.

"NOOOOO! TOAD!" Toadette cried, going over to his body. She checked his pulse...dead. She leaned her head over his body and started crying her eyes out.

BOY #9: TOAD - DEAD

43 TO GO

"Oh my god..." Rouge said, covering her mouth.

"WATCH OUT!" Knuckles yelled, pushing Rouge out the way. Another knife was thrown at them.

"I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE!" Toadette cried and ran away from the two.

"NO WAIT! COME BACK! YOU'RE NOT SAFE ALONE!" Rouge screamed. Toadette ignored her and kept on running.

"Forget her, we need to go now!" Knuckles said and ran to the right instead of straight, into where the trees and bushes crowded everything.

Jojora looked at the scene from the branch of a tree. She laughed.

"1 down. Whatever number there is to go." Jojora said, cracking her knuckles. She leapt off the branch, onto the ground and walked down where Toadette ran.

Bean The Dynamite was walking by his lonesome and found his way to a warehouse that was different than the one Amy was staying at.

"Perfect. This is just what I need." Bean said, then ran inside.

The ground level had just junk lying everywhere. It smelled dirty too. There was a stairs that led to a second floor. He ran up it.

"FREEZE!" Wario yelled, aiming his handgun right at Bean.

"WOAH! What's going on here?" Bean asked.

"Get out right now. We don't trust the likes of you, and we're not saying that just cause you're an animal. We don't want to have any trouble here so leave now before I blast yo brains out, bitch!" Wario threatened, trying to cool and/or evil, but failed.

Waluigi got up from his 'bed'.

"What's going on brother? Is this guy trying to kill us?" Waluigi asked.

"No! I'm not here to kill you guys! I'm just looking for a place to stay for the night. That's all. I don't even have a threatening weapon!" Bean zipped open his bag and got out a steel pipe.

"How can we trust you, though? Sorry, but it's kinda hard to trust you Sonic guys cause we have gotten into fights with you in the past." Wario said.

"Sigh...how about this then?" Bean asked. He threw his steel pipe to the ground level. "There. So even if I WANT to attack you, I'll have to steal your weapons...which I won't."

Wario lowered his gun. "Grrrr, fine. But I'm keeping my eye on you, ducky!"

Marina Liteyears walked over to the guys.

"Oh! Looks like we have a visitor! Is he a friend or foe?" She asked the Wario Bros.

"Friend...for now." Wario answered.

"Splendid. The more friends, the merrier!" She cheered.

"Woah hold on here, you got MARINA LITEYEARS to stay with you guys?" Bean excitedly asked.

"Yeah. So?" Wario asked, scratching his head with his gun.

"Sorry if I sound like a fanboy here, but I am in IN LOVE with your video game, Mischief Makers! I've gotten every gold gem on each stage and I've had the game ever since it was released!" Bean squealed.

"Oh, that's great! Nice to see I still have some fans left around." Marina smiled.

"Are you two lovebirds done? Cause I wanna get back to sleep, and if I don't get any sleep then I'll get super cranky!" Wario complained.

"Right. Sorry. So I CAN stay here, right?" Bean asked.

"Yeah yeah, just as long as you don't get too close to me when we're sleeping." Wario warned.

"Cool." Bean replied, then notice something near the back of the room. "What the? Is that a laptop on top of that box?" He went over to it.

"Yeah it is. We found it here but we can't get on to the internet to contact someone to get us out." Waluigi said.

Bean stared at the laptop screen. It looked like your typical Windows desktop. He then looked at the wires. The wires connected to the laptop ran outside of the building as well.

"Hmm, this is good actually. I think it's possible that I could hack the programs those drug-addicts are using back in that building." Bean said.

"Wh-what? YOU CAN? Well for star's sake, get on with it!" Wario rushed.

"Hold on, hold on! I can't do it right now because one, I'm too tired and two, we need a lot of equipment for this. We'll start it first thing tomorrow morning." Bean said.

"Grrr! Fine! But if we die, then I'm putting the blame on you!" Wario angrily said.

"Don't listen to him, he's cranky...well, more cranky than usual." Waluigi said.

"It's kay." Bean said.

"YES! Thank you so much Bean! You're my hero!" Marina cheered and kissed Bean on the cheek.

"Oh...my..." Bean said, totally blown away by the kiss. He smiled then happily fainted to the ground.

"So Diddy, I'm guessing you heard that Tiny died...?" Dixie awkwardly asked. She met him on the rocks of the beach.

"Yeah. Just wish I could've done something." Diddy said, emotion-less.

"Well there's not much point in dwelling on it forever I suppose. So, where do you suppose we should sleep at?" Dixie asked.

"Over there. In that lighthouse." Diddy said, pointing to it. The lighthouse looked like your typical...lighthouse.

"What the? I never even saw that there! Is it even open though? Well, we might as well go check it out. Come on." Dixie said, starting to walk to it, but Diddy stopper her for a second.

"Dixie! I just wanted to tell you that...I love you no matter what will happen." Diddy said in a caring way. Dixie swooned and kissed him.

"Oh Diddy, I love you too. Just promise me you'll stick with me all the way?" She asked him. He nodded.

At that point, both of them completely forgot about the game. True love conquers all.

Kirby and Ribbon were walking in the forest of the island, carefully watching their step as it was dark.

"K-Kirby? Are you sure we should still be walking out here? It's really dark and I can barely see anything..." Ribbon said, scared.

"Don't worry Ribbon. I'll protect you in case anything bad happens!" Kirby confidently said, holding his hatchet high. Ribbon smiled in relief.

"Thanks Kirby. You know, I've always kind of preferred you over Metaknight. I mean, I don't know mean I dislike Metaknight or anything but I always found you more trustworthy and loyal...and kind." Ribbon shyly said.

"Thank you Ribbon. That's probably the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me...uhh, but yeah. I'm actually surprised Metaknight wasn't invited to come. He is pretty popular so that doesn't really make sense." Kirby said, scratching his head.

"Yeah that is kind of weird..." Ribbon uncomfortably said.

Kirby stopped.

"WOAH! Did you hear that?" Kirby shrieked. Ribbon immediately got scared.

"I think so! Who was that?" She asked. Kirby held up his hatchet.

The sound of rustling through the bushes got closer to him.

"AH! KIRBY!" Ribbon screamed, floating down to him.

"Stand back. This could be someone trying to pull a trick on us." Kirby warned.

The sound of rustling was next to him.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Kirby screamed, swinging his hatchet at none other than Knuckles.

"WOAH! DUDE, WHAT THE HELL?" Knuckles yelled, pushing Kirby away.

"GET AWAY FROM US!" Kirby yelled, still swinging his hatchet but Knuckles swiftly avoided all his moves. Kirby got more angry so he tackled Knuckles and they both fell down the small hill.

"Knuckles!" Rouge yelled, carefully stepping down there.

"Oh god no!" Ribbon shrieked.

"So Tooty, what does it feel like not appearing in Banjo-Tooie? I mean for crying out loud, you appeared in the first game but all you get is a stupid CAMEO in the second? Those producers are stupid!" Birdo yelled.

"Umm, Birdo, I don't think you should ask that..." Yoshi suggested.

"It's fine. Yeah, I was disappointed I didn't appear but at the same time, I was doing a lot of traveling so it was just fine." Tooty said.

"Oh. Ok then. But I'm really sorry your friends killed each other. I know I could never do that to one of my friends." Yoshi said.

"It's alright I suppose. Just wish we could've been there to stop it." Banjo sighed.

"Hey Yoshi, since we're in a deadly situation right now and we have a good chance of dying, I need to say this, I have 10 plushies of you in my room, I am a moderator of yoshiartdotcom and I've always thought you were the cutest mario character. There, I said it. Sorry, but I had to let it out somehow." Kazooie confessed. Tooty raised her eyebrows.

"Umm...thanks?" Yoshi asked. He wasn't sure how to respond to that.

"Stalker alert." Birdo whispered.

"Uhh new subject! If you guys wanna know what it's like living in Spiral Mountain, I'll give ya one word; boring." Banjo said.

"Well, except when we're out chasing after Grunty the Bitch- I mean witch." Kazooie said. They all couldn't help but laugh. Kazooie was always the life of the party so she managed to brighten things up a bit.

As the group got near a small hill, they saw two familiar characters rolling down it together.

"Oh my god!" Tooty shrieked and stood behind Banjo.

The two characters landed on the ground finally...but something bad had happened.

Knuckles stood up and backed away from Kirby and gasped, realizing what he had done.

Kirby's own hatchet was axed right in his head. Kirby struggled to get up as blood was pouring down his face.

"Oh god, Kirby, I didn't mean to do that, I swear!" Knuckles said.

"N-no...it's...fine...I'm fine...it's okay..." Kirby stuttered through the pain. He couldn't take it anymore and fell to the ground.

Boy #23: KIRBY - DEAD

42 TO GO

Ribbon watched the scene with tears in her scenes. She ran away as fast as she could.

"You...you killed Kirby! How could you do that?" Tooty asked.

"I didn't mean to! He lunged at me and then..." Knuckles started to explain, but couldn't find the right words.

"Knuckles, are you okay?" Rouge asked, heading over to him. She looked in disgust at Kirby's dead body.

"Hey, where were you guys headed to?" Yoshi asked.

"Why should we tell you? We don't necessarily trust you guys, considering we've gotten into fights in the past." Knuckles said with an attitude.

"Oh shut up. This is life or death right here and all you can do is act like a jackass? Get over yourself!" Kazooie spat.

It was silent for a moment.

"FREEZE!" Someone yelled.

"AH! WHO'S THERE?" Tooty jumped.

"It's me. Midna." She said, coming out of the bushes, holding her sub-machine in her hands. She gave everyone a death glare. She went to Kirby's body and pulled the hatchet out of his head.

"What weapons you guys got?" Midna asked, pointing her gun at all of them. They all got out their weapons.

"I just got binoculars." Rouge said.

"I got a machete." Knuckles said.

"I just have a...butcher knife?" Yoshi said, shaking his head.

"...I have rope. Wow." Birdo facepalmed.

"Steel pipe. Nice and shiny steel pipe that is." Kazooie said.

"Erm...just a handgun." Banjo said.

"And I got a taser, which I don't even know what it's for." Tooty said.

Midna gave a faint smile.

"If you guys need a place to sleep at, then follow me. It's up to you if you trust me or not." Midna stated then walked off. They all looked at each other then decided to follow Midna. Besides, what other choice did they have?

The intercom came on. It was 10 AM on Sunday.

"Good morning heroes! Here is the list of people who have died since the last announcement: Boy #22, E-123 Omega. Girl #27, Marine the Raccoon. Girl #2, Princess Rosalina. Girl #7, Krystal. Boy #9, Toad. Boy #23, Kirby. Total of 6 people. Come on, you guys can do better than that! Do I need to plant some mines out there or what?" Star Wolf said. He then went to go sit back on the couch in the computer room. The soldiers were doing all the work at the main computer, making sure everything was in check.

Bowser was laying down, eating some Sun Chips.

"Man oh man! I'm so glad we came up with this game. It's so pleasuring to see all those Mario loons kill each other off and go insane. I'm gonna laugh so hard if Mario kills Peach himself." Bowser said.

"I agree. We're definitely the smartest villians out there. Nobody can even DARE to compare!" Calina laughed.

"I would've preferred to actually capture them all, put them in an abandoned building and blow the building up. It's fast, awesome and easy!" Eggman said.

"Yeah but that way is not as fun though! In this game, we get to see and hear them struggle to the extreme and kill their friends. How is that not entertaining?" Grunty cackled.

"Not to sound like a party pooper, but does anyone else kind of...regret doing all of this? I mean, yeah we hate the heroes and all but I feel like we could be doing this in a different way." Wolf said.

"Oh do NOT tell me you're actually feeling sorry for them! Do we have to put your ass in this game too?" Ganondorf intimidatedly asked.

"No! I'm just saying that I...nevermind. Just forget it."

Mario, Luigi, Peach and Pauline all woke up from their uncomfortable sleep. Pauline went to the bathroom.

"Hey Peach, me and Luigi are gonna go look for our friends and see if we can recruit them over here. Do you wanna stay here?" Mario asked.

"Yeah I'll stay here. Please just be careful out there as there are obviously maniacs running about." Peach said.

"Yeah, we know. We'll be back in a while." Mario said and took with Luigi. Luigi was quiet and depressed still, but it was to be expected considering his girlfriend had just died.

Peach grabbed her handgun and waited by the bathroom.

Pauline came out, only to see Peach's gun pointing right at her.

"Oh! Peach! What are you doing?" She asked.

"I know you killed Daisy. I knew it ever since I saw you here last night and Daisy was mysteriously gone." Peach said. Pauline backed away a little bit.

"Wha...I don't know what you're talking about! Why would I kill Daisy?" Pauline asked as innocently as she could.

"Oh don't give me your bullcrap! You were always jealous of Daisy because I remember a while ago you said she didn't deserve all the money she had and that Luigi could do better! Confess already!" Peach demanded. Pauline started to sob.

"No Peach, please just listen to me! Just because I said that about her doesn't mean that I actually WANTED to kill her! I could never do such a thing to someone!" Pauline cried.

"OH PLEASE! I can see right through you, you...WHORE! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Peach screamed. Pauline started to sob more.

"WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS PICK ON ME? Just because I haven't been staying in the limelight for all these years and all these stupid rumors are being made up about me doesn't mean it's true! I've been more hated on than Wario for pete's sake!" Pauline yelled.

"Quit the freaking pity-partying! I've had enough of you. I should've killed you while you were sleeping! BUT NOW YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" Peach screamed and put her finger on the trigger, but not before Pauline grabbed her taser and zapped Peach in the leg. She dropped her gun and Pauline quickly grabbed it and aimed it at Peach.

"Fine, you want the truth? I killed Daisy. Mainly because she was standing in my way so I can get to be with Luigi. But with you out of the way, my chances of being in comfort with a REAL man has doubled!" Pauline said.

"No. DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING TO GET WITH MARIO! HE'LL NEVER BE WITH YOU!" Peach screamed.

"Says who? You don't get to make a comment on this, cause you'll already be dead!" Pauline yelled.

"NOOOO!" Peach screamed and threw her bag at Pauline's face. Peach tried to run out the cabin the other way, but she was too slow as Pauline shot her in the back with her own handgun.

GIRL #16: PRINCESS PEACH - DEAD

41 TO GO

Link and Zelda were walking together in the deep and vast forest of the island. Both of them wanted to hold hands with each other but they felt with the game being so dangerous and pressuring, they felt that it didn't seem right.

"So Link...I know this might seem like the wrong time to talk about this but, is it really true that you were gonna ask to marry me soon?" Zelda asked. Link stopped walking.

"Wh-who told you that?" Link nervously stuttered.

"Nabooru did. It was when you two were having the talk about the Gerudo moving to another desert." Zelda said.

"Ugh. What a blabbermouth..." Link shrugged. Zelda giggled.

"Hey, it's okay. But was she telling the truth though? Please just tell me." Zelda almost begged.

"...Yes." Link hesitated a bit. Zelda smiled brightly.

"Thank you. I wanted you to ask me for a while but I should've made more hints that I wanted it." Zelda said.

"I was actually planning on asking you after we were back from the Video Game Convention. It would be the perfect timing." Link said, smiling also. Zelda stared at him with love in her eyes.

"Oh Link!" Zelda cheered, hugging him back. Link hugged her back. "If both of us make it out alive, will you still propose to me?"

"Of course I will. I'd do anything for you." Link said. Zelda stopped hugging him and looked at his eyes.

"Then I want to you take me now and make love to me." Zelda stated. Link was totally caught off guard.

"Wh-what? Are you saying you want us to...?" Link said, but didn't want to say that certain word cause he felt it would be too awkward.

"Yes. I want us to do this now so I want you to know how much you mean to me. Please." Zelda said, pulling her straps down.

"No...no, I'm sorry. I can't. I just can't." Link said and repeatedly shook his head.

"Why not? Don't you love me?" Zelda asked.

"Of course I do, but...I just can't do this. It doesn't seem right, I'm sorry!" Link nervously said and then ran off. Zelda was speechless. What the heck was Link's problem? She just wanted him to do a favor.

Zelda just sat there on the grass, starting to tear up. She actually felt like killing herself at that point. Things were just getting worse for her.

"Help me!" Cried someone.

"Huh? Who's there?" Zelda called, wiping her eyes.

"Over here! Help!" They cried again. It sounded really close by.

"Where are you at? Hello?" Zelda called out again. She heard a rustling nearby. She walked towards the noise and went behind a large bush. It was Shadow, laying on the ground, holding his knee.

"Please help me! I sprained my ankle and I can't get up!" Shadow pleaded.

"Oh my! You, you're Shadow aren't you? How did you sprain your ankle?" Zelda asked.

"Um...I tripped over some big rocks and kind of twisted my leg. Yeah." Shadow said.

"Oh. Well here, I'll help you up." Zelda said, having Shadow put his arm around Zelda's neck and she lifted up him on his feet.

"Hoo, thank you so much. You're a big help." Shadow thanked.

"No problem! Um, I'm kind of following someone so I guess I'll just take you with me for now until I can find some place where you can be at." Zelda said.

"Hey, you wanna know something?" Shadow asked, shuffling in his bag.

"What?" Asked Zelda.

"I lied." Shadow smirked. He then stabbed Zelda in the chest with a switchblade.

"OH!" Zelda screamed.

"Ha! I can't believe you actually bought into my acting! Man, some of you guys here are so gullible. Maybe I should star in movies now?" Shadow laughed. He stabbed Zelda again, making her scream yet again.

"Too bad your elf-boyfriend can't save you right now. That would've made all of this much harder. Well not really, since I have a sub-machine gun, but I wanted to put my skills to the test." Shadow said.

"You...won't get away...with this..." Zelda struggled to speak.

"That's what you think. But I don't care." Shadow replied, taking the knife out of her body. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some more killing to do." Shadow then wandered off.

Zelda held her bloody wound for a bit and tried to move but the pain got the best of her and she eventually died.

Girl #26: PRINCESS ZELDA - DEAD

40 TO GO

EOC.

The killers and backstabbers are striking again in this chapter. Will karma eventually get to them though?