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"AAAAAAAAARGH!" Marisa screamed, punching a wall in frustration… and then kept punching it, followed by a few kicks for good measure.
"Hey, Marisa! You'll get your freaking Hakkero back! We gotta get moving!" Natsu told her.
"Oh trust me, Kamek's head will roll by the time I get my Hakkero back."
"Hmm, so I guess the witch is totally powerless without her Hakkero." Gajeel said. "Then again, you got your Spell Cards."
"I know, but I just like unleashing Master Spark on the thing." Marisa muttered.
"Don't you have another weapon you can use?" Reimu asked. "I remember back in the day when we first met, you used a wand on me."
"A wand?" Marisa asked as it dawned on her. "Oh!" She dug in her pocket and pulled it out. "I actually forgot about this."
With Kamek…
"Ugh…" Kamek shivered. "Why do I feel Marisa's copying me all of a sudden?" He wondered as he was also tinkering with the Hakkero.
Back with the others…
"Alright, let's-a go." Mario said as they took off.
It's been a while though… hope I'm not too rusty with it. Marisa thought as they took off to the Dozing Sands.
BGM: Dozing Sand Secrets (Mario and Luigi: Dream Team)
"Phew! It's a little hot out here!" Luigi said, wiping his forehead.
"It's not too bad." Mario said.
"Wait… isn't one of us wearing dark clothing?" Lucy wondered as all eyes looked at Marisa.
"What?" Marisa asked.
"Um, doesn't dark clothing like absorb the heat from the sun or something?" Happy wondered.
"It does. Come to think of it, I think Gajeel's affected too." Carla said.
"Hmph! Said the cats with the fur!"
"Ah! We're totally gonna die from this heat!" Happy exclaimed in a panic.
"No, we're not. It's not actually that bad out here." Lily said.
"I think the major concern is Marisa." Reimu said.
"Oh please, it's not too bad out here. It's not like I'm in some other desert with, I don't know, some ruins that some thieves are trying to rob from without thinking about its traps." Marisa said. "Or trying to figure out spell cards that Kamek flipped around on me while dying from the heat."
"What about finding a living sandcastle?" Happy asked.
"If it were a sandcastle, it would be in a beach." Marisa pointed out.
"Would a living sandcastle even exist?" Wendy wondered.
"I doubt it." Natsu said. "…Then again…" He scratched his chin in thought. "Nah, I'm going crazy."
"When haven't you?" Gray asked as they walked forward through the Dozing Sands, taking care of some Flounderflages and Sandoons. Marisa attempted to use her wand to fire a small laser, but it split it up into several tiny lasers that left some Sandoons unharmed.
"Agh… what was that spell again?" Marisa wondered as she quickly waved her wand around to fire Danmaku, but it was simple round orbs and then Sakuya managed to destroy the Sandoons when the Danmaku didn't even hit them.
"I think you need some practice on that." Sakuya said.
"Gee, you think?" Marisa muttered as they walked forward, where they heard something.
"WAAAAAH!" A Shelltop yelled and slid down a slippery slope… well, if you count running sand as slippery. "Ah geez!"
"Ha! Good luck climbing back up here! Just wait until Britta hears about this!"
"Oh no no no! I don't wanna be fired!"
"I don't even want to know." Meiling said as they walked forward, and then spotted a pillow in the distance. "Hey!"
"Oh yeah! Time to rescue another Pi'illo!" Natsu grinned as they walked forward, but were stopped by two Shelltops.
Pause BGM
"Hold it! Before you can go any farther!" One of them stopped them as they turned to them.
BGM: Have a Nice Talk (Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
"We want to see if you have hammers."
"Um… why…?" Lucy wondered as Mario and Luigi brought out theirs.
"Oh, just showing you something neat." One of the Shelltops said. "I know y'all can hammer, but we want to show ya something."
"What is it?" Luigi asked.
"Well, you can basically hammer someone into the ground! Like so!" The Shelltop hammered his fellow worker into the soft sand, burying him instantly… and he hopped back up. "And if you're on a hard surface, THIS will happen!" He said, hammering him to squish his fellow Shelltop. "Give it a try… and if you hammer him again, he'll pop back to normal!"
The Mario Bros hesitantly looked at each other. "You… want to give it a go?" Mario asked.
"Um… sure…" Luigi nodded as he closed his eyes. "I'm ready… do it…!" He said as Mario closed his eyes, and hammered Luigi on the head… but instead of burying him into the sand… "YAAAAAAAAAGH!" Luigi yelled, lying on his back and holding onto his head, complete with a goose egg. "OW OW OW OW OOOOOW!"
"Sorry, bro!" Mario sweatdropped as they reached the hard surface, as Luigi closed his eyes and did the same to Mario, but instead of shrinking him… "OOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Mario yelled, lying on his stomach and reeling in pain, holding on to his head and having a goose egg as well.
"MARIO!" Luigi yelled, completely panicked.
"…Huh… this worked with us…" A Shelltop said.
"Maybe they're doing it wrong." Natsu said as he took Mario's hammer and hammered Gray on the head.
"OW!" Gray yelled in pain. "Oh you asked for it!" He growled, taking Luigi's hammer and hammered Natsu.
You can probably guess where this will lead to.
You guessed right; Natsu and Gray on the floor with lumps on their heads.
"…That…probably won't work for them…" The same Shelltop said.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS, SOME KIND OF VIDEO GAME OR CARTOON?!" Lucy yelled.
"Uh… what do you mean?" The other asked.
"I think Mario has a concussion! Don't go into the light, man!" Happy said, shaking the plumber. "Someone get Eirin or something!"
"I can heal them." Patchouli said as she walked over to them, pulling out her book and concentrating. "Cura Magica Healra!" She said, as green auras surrounded the plumbers and wizards, healing them as Mario was no longer reeling in pain.
"Ow…" Mario muttered. "Thanks."
"No problem." Patchouli softly smiled and put her book away.
"Soooo… round two?" The Shelltop asked, as the Mario Bros and wizards glared at them darkly before hammering them, or punching in Gray and Natsu's case, into the dirt and stormed off as the others followed. "Mmph…! Take that as a no!"
"Bro, I could use some help…!"
End BGM
"So, where were we?" Remilia asked as she grabbed the pillow off of a cactus as they put it down as Luigi and Meiling put themselves on the pillow and fell asleep, as they all hopped in.
BGM: Dreamy Sandstorm (Mario and Luigi: Dream Team)
As they landed, they were greeted by Dreamy Luigi and Dreamy Meiling and off they went, taking care of some Dreamy Sandloons, Lob-ombs and Skipdrills, and as they went forward, Dreambert sensed a Nightmare Chunk close by but couldn't reach it and as they climbed higher, they saw quite the site.
"Whoa, that's a lot!" Luigi exclaimed, seeing tons of Dreamy Sandloons and Skipdrills as they charged them as some of them tried to hold them off, but more kept coming, forcing them to retreat and got to higher ground.
"Phew, glad they can't jump." Natsu said.
"Can I just destroy them all?" Flandre asked.
"There'd be too many for you." Reimu said.
"Oh please, you're forgetting who I am." Flandre grinned, but they still went on ahead, going forward as they saw two constellations in the sky, resembling Luigi and Meiling.
"Hmm, I wonder what that does?" Dreambert asked as Dreamy Luigi and Dreamy Meiling hopped in there… and about a few seconds later, they reappeared as if nothing happened, causing them to anime fall.
"Well, THAT was a waste of time." Reimu said… but then another Luigi and Meiling appeared… and then another… and another… and ANOTHER… until there was a whole army of Luigis and Meilings.
"WHAT THE…?!" Levy yelled.
"Please tell me I'm not hallucinating…" Gray said as Juvia playfully splashed water on his face, causing him to spit out water. "Nope… definitely not." He said, unaware of outside, Luigi was laughing and Meiling was smiling, as Starlow wondered what they were dreaming about.
"Sooooo, what can an army of you guys do?" Dreambert wondered as the Luigis formed into a stack for Mario to hop on, as for Meiling… well, the Meilings formed into a monster truck.
"…Okay, that's just overkill!" Carla said.
"No, one guy taking on an army of monster bugs is overkill." Natsu said. "This is awesome!"
"Forget that! How about a giant lizard getting its jaws ripped in half by a giant monkey!" Happy exclaimed.
"Now that's just crazy talk." Natsu said.
"So uh, who's driving that?" Reimu wondered, not realizing that Flandre hopped in.
"Let's see… how do you drive this thing?" She wondered as she attempted to shift into drive, but went reverse and crashed into the back wall. "OOOF!"
"Ow! That hurt!"
"Yeah, I'm gonna feel that one for a while!"
"Mmmph! Can't… breathe!"
"Does she have a license?" Dreambert asked.
"Yeah, a license for the mentally insane." Happy muttered as they walked forward while Mario hopped up to get some floating coins and met up with the Meilings as they reformed and they both hopped down, although Flandre had to floor it to squeeze through the tight spot and they turned to the wall of enemies as they looked on in sheer horror as they took off, but they were easily ran over by the two of them… but unlike the Luigis, Flan was still going.
"Um, now would be a good time to brake!"
"Which one is it?!" Flandre asked, as she slammed on another petal, braking… but she was still going fast enough to make a head on collision with the wall, knocking down the Meilings and Flandre. "Ow…"
"Well, that was… ow… painful…" One of them said as the Luigis and Meilings disappeared as they went back into one… and they noticed there was a Pi'illo that was freed because of Flandre's driving.
"Thanks for… saving me… I guess…" The Pi'illo groaned.
"Well, that's one way to save him…" Dreambert rubbed the back of his head as they were taken out of the dream world.
End BGM
Resume Dozing Sands Secrets BGM
As soon as they popped back out in the real world, Luigi and Meiling popped back up and then the Pi'illo woke up. "Mmm…! That was some nap! …A little brutal, but I'm okay."
Do I even need to know? Starlow wondered.
"Do you know where the Dream Stone is at?" Dreambert asked the Pi'illo.
"Yes, I'm sensing it over to the Northeast, way over there." He said, pointing in the direction. "Also, why are those two struggling in the sand?"
"It's a long story." Luigi said a little grumpily.
"Oh, let me help you get up on that hill." He said, as a stone appeared above him. "Dozite… go forth!" He requested as the Dozite floated towards a Zeekeeper statue, as platforms rose above the sand.
"YES!" A Shelltop yelled and happily jumped up.
"Aww… I mean, yay, you're safe!" The other smiled as the others jumped on up.
"Would've been simpler if we flew." Gajeel said.
"And miss out on all the fun?" Natsu chuckled and they went up where they met with a female Brock.
"PUT YOUR BACKS INTO IT! I DON'T PAY YOU FOR PETTING THE ROCKS!"
"Yes ma'am! Don't hurt me, Britta!"
Oh, she's nice… Reimu, Lucy, Levy, Carla and Wendy all thought as they walked forward and then Britta spotted them.
"Hold it!" She said and took a good look at them all. "Hmm, hmm! Yes… y'all look like you can be put to work nicely!" She said and looked at Luigi. "…Well… most of you." She said as Luigi's eyes widened in disbelief and he was about to tell her that he sucks up ghosts for a living, but she immediately cut him off. "Yep, you're hired. Now get to work!"
"Whoa whoa whoa, hold on lady! What do you mean by that?" Gray asked.
"I'm saying that you can get to work by hammering rocks!"
"Hammering… rocks?" Flandre asked. That sounds boring…
"DID I STUTTER?!" She yelled at the vampire, while Flandre gave her a 'yell at me again, and you'll immediately regret it' look, but Britta didn't care for the look and turned around. "NOW GET TO WORK!"
"Right away!" Happy said as he took off, but Reimu grabbed his tail. "OW OW OW! WATCH THE TAIL!"
"We're not here for work, lady." Reimu said.
Britta blinked in disbelief. "Come again?"
"We're looking for something called the Dream Stone." Mario explained.
"Dream… Stone?" Britta rubbed her… uh… square chin in thought. "Hmm, can't say I've heard of it, but if you're not looking for work, then get out of here!" She ordered… but immediately after that… "Actually, as long as you don't interfere with us working, then go ahead and look for whatever." She said and turned to the top of the hill. "Have to say though, never been up there before... I wonder if there's some kind of treasure… but anyway, have fun… if you can."
"Well, that was easy." Starlow said and they all took off once more and then finding a machine as the bros hopped on and then a Shelltop spotted them.
"Whoa whoa whoa, Britta will KILL ME if I let you on there! …But uh… just for a quick lesson…" He said and then explained the mechanics and the buttons on the railway and the cart itself, as Mario pressed the button with the hammer, drilling into a rock… and needless to say, some of them were fascinated by the bros doing it…
And some of them were bored… one of them was the mentally unstable vampire.
"Nnngh…" She growled, watching the rock be destroyed, wanting to destroy it by clenching her fists and just using her Lavatein to destroy the damn thing so they can move on, and eventually, the bros got it done and they moved on.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT JUST A MINUTE!" A voice yelled as they saw Britta running over to them. "I changed my mind! If y'all are here, then you are to work!"
"Wait, what?" Luigi asked, but before anymore questions were asked, Britta grabbed the Bros and hopped onto the drill machine as the three of them took off.
"…Why do I feel as if she's going to be teaching all of us how to do that?" Gajeel asked.
"We're gonna be here for a while…" Marisa sighed.
"So, anyone got any playing cards?" Happy asked, all of them unaware that Flandre was folding her arms, tapping her foot impatiently.
She silently thanked Patchy for conjuring up a spell to make an invisible protective barrier on the two vampires so they wouldn't be totally weakened by the sun… but that's not what got her so aggravated right now.
Oh no, it was that lady that's taking her sweet time with the Mario Bros, wasting their time on how to destroy rocks properly and blah blah blah… She knew that they had better things to do like getting to the Dream Stone before Bowser and Antasma did, and getting Marisa's Hakkero back.
It soon grew to five minutes, and Britta was still yammering to the Mario Bros as everyone was relaxing… but Flandre still had her arms folded, growling impatiently and tapping her foot repeatedly on the soft sand.
The more impatient she got… the more angrier she got… and we all know what happens when she gets pissed off.
"So, do you have any Fantasy Orbs?" Happy asked, sitting down as they were actually using spell cards for playing cards, and was going against Marisa, Reimu, Patchouli, Meiling, Natsu, Levy, Gray, Erza and Starlow.
"Nope." Reimu said. "Do any of you happen to have a Phantomic Killer in Night Mist?"
"ARGH! I was hoping you wouldn't say that!" Meiling groaned, tossing it to Reimu.
"Hehehe…"
"How about a Lava Cromlech?" Patchouli asked.
"NOOOO! That was my best one!" Natsu complained.
"How about a Colorful Ultimate Mountain Breaker?" Gray asked.
"Fare thee well…" Erza sighed sadly.
"Mmph…" Flandre growled, getting all the more impatient… and then finally, Britta returned with the Mario Bros.
"And there you have it. Alright, to complete this lesson, hit that rock." Britta said as Luigi did so, and out came a pillow. "Oh! What do you know, there's a pillow." Britta said. "Alright, next two!" She ordered and looked around. "You two!" She pointed to Lucy and Levy.
"Us?!" Lucy and Levy exclaimed.
"Come on! Let's go!"
It was at this point… when Flandre had enough. "AAAAAAAAH! I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" Flandre screamed as she suddenly flew up in the air.
"What in the hell is she doing?" Britta asked.
"You might wanna stand back… she's lost it." Koakuma said.
Sakuya sighed. "I was about to go insane too…"
"TO HELL WITH THESE ROCKS!" Flandre screamed, unleashing her Four of a Kind Spell Card and activating their Lavateins… and they proceeded to go to town on the rocks.
"My precious rocks! What is she doing?!" Britta asked.
"Hooray!" All the Shelltops exclaimed, as there small stones flying everywhere.
"Do you have a Jack the Ludo Bile, Levy?" Happy asked as they were still playing.
"Nope. But do you have a Fantasy Seal?"
"Which one?"
"Divine Spirit."
Happy sighed with relief. "No."
"Aww…"
"Do any of you have a Sungrazer?" Marisa asked.
"OH COME ON, I JUST DREW THAT!" Natsu yelled as they were still playing… until Flandre was finished, not a single rock remained… and there were three more pillows.
Flandre landed on the ground, as she tossed the pillows on the ground, panting a little but smiling. "There, I feel much better." She giggled… while Britta fainted.
"Well, might as well sleep on all four of these." Luigi said as they proceeded to do so, as in the first one, they came across some drill pillars for Luigi and Meiling to go in to, and they wondered how to do it, Dreambert requested to spin their noses from Luigi's and Meiling's mouths, as Starlow wondered what kind of dream those two are having as they did so, where they destroyed the Nightmare Chunk on the first one.
Three pillows later…
"Alright, we got all the Dozites, let's-a go!" Mario said.
"Hold up! One of my clones found these." Flandre said, handing out ten Attack Pieces and tossing them to Luigi, as they formed into a Fire Flower.
"…Oh, another Fire Flower. How nice, I guess." Luigi said.
"You're welcome!" Flandre giggled and they took off, placing the Dozites on the statues as platforms rose from the sand.
"Had we know Britta was going to do that to us, we would've flown up here." Mario said.
"That's what I keep telling you guys!" Gajeel said.
"Wait!" Britta ran up, seeming to be back to normal. "Let me go first since you worked so hard on destroying the rocks!" She said as if the trauma from all the rocks the vampire destroyed never happened as she happily hopped on. "La la la~! Going to get treasure~! Gonna buy me an island~!" She sang.
"…How in the world do you buy an island?" Happy asked.
"Uh, I dunno." Natsu shrugged as they walked forward… but as they got on the last step…
"AIYEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Britta yelled as they quickly ran forward to see a giant red monster with a drill for a head was busy chasing Britta around. "I THOUGHT THESE TORKSCREWS WERE A MYTH!" She screamed… and then the Torkscrew ate her whole.
"Welp… I guess we'll have to save her now." Marisa said, pulling out her wand as the Torkscrew spotted them and roared.
End BGM
BGM: Never Let Up! (Mario and Luigi: Dream Team)
The Torkscrew roared and then jumped into the air, looking at someone to drill into and then spotted Luigi as he proceeded to drill into him, but Luigi pulled out his hammer and swung at it, knocking the Torkscrew down on the ground to daze it.
"Alright, here we go!" Marisa said, aiming her wand at the Torkscrew. "Master Spark!" She called out, but it was just a tiny little laser that parted from the wand. "Oh, NOW I fire lasers out of this thing?!" She asked as the laser hit him.
"You gotta figure that thing out." Reimu said.
"It's been a while, alright?!" Marisa exclaimed, unleashing Orrieres Sun at him.
"SKY DRAGON'S ROAR!" Wendy yelled, hitting the Torkscrew as it got back up and drilled underground as they looked around the area, but Lucy had an idea.
"Open! Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!"
"You wish to punish me, princess?" Virgo asked as she appeared.
"What? No! Dig a hole to bring that ugly thing up to the surface!"
"As you wish." She said and dug underground, and when she met the Torkscrew. "Hello." She greeted before kicking him out of the sand as she got out where Natsu and Gajeel jumped into the air.
"FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!"
"IRON DRAGON CLUB!"
Both of these attacks connected to the Torkscrew as he landed back on the ground, and then Gray got ready. "ICE MAKE: HAMMER!" He yelled, hammering the Torkscrew as it got back up and tried to drill into Mario, but he hammered him away where Flandre flew over and slashed through him with her Lavatein and then kicked him over where Remilia threw her Gungnir at him to pierce through him, causing him to fall to the ground.
The Torkscrew got up, growling as it went back underground, only to get kicked out by Virgo again where Erza slashed through him and Juvia unleashed a wave of water at him, then Sakuya launched knives at him.
"Saint Elmo's Pillar." Patchouli said, as a pillar of fire shot Torkscrew up in the air where Meiling jumped up and scissor kicked him down where Reimu fired Fantasy Orbs at him.
"Marisa, go for it!" Reimu said.
"Okay, I think I got it figured out!" Marisa said as she swung her wand repeatedly, firing Danmaku from it as she aimed it directly at him and fired a powerful laser at the Torkscrew to finish it off, as it lit up and exploded right after. "Heh, still got it…. Just not as flashy as the Master Spark, but this'll do for now." She smiled.
End BGM
After Torkscrew exploded, a very injured Britta was lying there… as a few Shelltops ran over to her. "Britta! Britta! Are you okay?!" A Shelltop yelled.
"Nngh… this is it for me… i-I'm putting you in ch-charge of the whole facility… nngh…"
"No… don't go into the light!"
"One request… fire… everyon-…" She closed her eyes.
"NOOOO! DON'T DIE ON US!"
An anime tic mark appeared on Britta's forehead. "I'M NOT DEAD, YOU MORONS! GET ME TO THE HOSPITAL BEFORE I FIRE ALL OF YOU!"
"Right! Go go go go!" One of the Shelltops yelled as they took off while carrying her away, as they all sweatdropped.
"…How dramatic can you get?" Reimu asked.
"She probably lost a coin or two, but I think she'll be alright." Starlow said.
"Now, the Dream Stone awaits us." Dreambert said as they turned around and walked forward to the Dream Stone.
Hmm, does anyone know the schedule for E3?
I just wanna know in case if they pull a fast one on us and put it down on a Sunday like last year. (Looking at you, EA!)
