Chapter 7: Capricorn bros.
When Samus, captain Falcon, Yoshi and Marth went through the door with Ziddler's mocking face, they found themselves where they left in the first place, the only difference that Samus was now holding her power suit in her arm instead of wearing it.
Marth saw his oportunity, and he limped forward, trying to ignore the strain and pain, however, he saw Samus performing a karate chop making him fall into unconsciousness.
"What was that for?!" asked captain Falcon shocked.
"So he won't run off, again" said Samus taking her suit in her arms again.
Yoshi just ran happily towards unconscious Marth, picked up him up, mounted him on his back and continued following Samus and Falcon and the four of them were heading back to the mansion.
"Ok, Mario said that we need to get back" said Snake, putting back his communication device into his pocket.
"Should we wake Ike up?" asked Fox.
"I think we should" said Snake.
"Should do what?" asked Ike, rubbing his eyes, sitting up.
"Good, you're awake; Mario said we need to go back to the mansion"
"But what about Link?" asked Ike.
"Mario said we'll talk about this later".
"No way, we're not ditching Link!" protested Ike, still sleepy.
"We're not ditching Link, we'll be back for him soon, but now we need to get back to the mansion, and you need a proper bed, you've reached the limits of your energy as it would seem" explained Snake.
"You promise we'll come back for Link?" asked Ike.
"I do" said Snake.
At that they started on their way towards the mansion.
***
Peach was looking for toon Link, not neglecting any door in her way, she passed next to an open room and she could see toon Link's back, he was sitting on the floor.
"Oh dear Toon" said Peach walking to toon and sitting in front of him on the floor.
"So Link isn't going to come back?" asked toon with sorrow in his voice.
"Don't be silly, Link will be back I promise" said Peach smiling at Link's childish version.
"You think so?" asked toon his eyes shining in hope.
"Of course I do" said Peach with a wide smile.
Suddenly toon hugged Peach, making her quite shocked, but the shock went away very soon and she patted toon on the head.
"Thank you Mrs. Peach" said toon.
"You're welcome anytime toon" smiled Peach.
"So shall we go back? I promise to be with you, I won't let that big mean Ganondorf harm you again"
"You promise?"
"Of course I do"
"Then yes, let's go" replied toon happily.
So then they went back to the auditorium, peach holding toon's hand as she started suddenly to think of how it would be to have children of her own.
"Mrs. Peach! There is no one in the auditorium" said toon pointing at the deserted auditorium.
Peach noticed that, the auditorium was indeed empty, and she noticed another thing in the room, Ziddler's icon was on one of the walls.
"Where have they gone?" asked toon walking around the deserted room and examining it.
"I think they have been kidnapped as well" said Peach, staring at Ziddler's icon.
"Why do you think so?" asked toon.
Peach just pointed towards the icon on the wall, which indicated that Ziddler has been in this place.
After a short amount of time they heard several foot steps, and they turned towards the entrance of the auditorium with hope in their eyes.
Samus, captain Falcon and Yoshi with Marth mounted on his back, unconscious, entered the auditorium.
"Where is everyone else?" asked Samus in shock, dropping her power suit on the floor.
"I don't know, me and toon just left for a several minutes and when we came back all of them were gone and this cursed thing was here" said Peach pointing at the mocking icon on the wall.
Yoshi left to take the unconscious Marth to back to his room so he could rest again.
"What happened?" asked Peach looking at Marth.
"Oh he tried to run away again after we found him, so… I made sure he won't run away" said Samus flatly.
"I'll be right back" said Samus as she headed towards the kitchen.
"So what do you think happened here?" asked captain Falcon, after Samus left the room.
"We think they were kidnapped by the mustache meany-face!" suddenly said toon Link.
"Mustache meany-what?"
"He meant Ziddler"
"Oh" said captain Falcon.
Samus quickly came from the kitchen with a bottle of vodka with Russian words on it.
"What are you doing?" asked Peach in shock, seeing Samus with the vodka bottle.
"What? You can't blame a girl for thinking better with alcohol in her blood stream" said Samus flatly, opening the bottle of vodka.
"Snake, Fox and Ike should be here soon enough" remembered Peach.
"Bloody good" said Samus taking a seat and starting to drink the vodka from the neck of the bottle.
"So I think we'll wait for them to come and then talk about a plan" said Falcon.
So they waited a while in which, Yoshi came back from Marth's room, Samus ended the bottle, they took seats and talked about what happened since Samus and the others left.
Snake, Fox and Ike came to the auditorium.
"Where is everyone?" asked Snake in shock.
"Probably been kidnapped by that Ziddler" said Samus, turning the empty bottle of Russian vodka around and around.
"Any plan?" asked Snake, taking a seat.
"What happened to your face?" asked Peach in shock looking at Snake's face that was covered with dry blood.
"Link was a bit… let's put it this way, violent" said Fox, taking a seat as well.
"If you don't mind, I'll retire to my room" said Ike, as he walked slowly towards his room.
"You mean that Link attacked you?" asked Peach in complete shock.
"I'm not sure it WAS Link, he had a mask, and his sword's blade was purple" said Snake.
And so they exchanged stories about how were their expeditions and such.
"So we'll look for a way to find the others?" asked Snake.
"I think we should do it tomorrow" said Peach.
"Yes" said Samus "I need to charge my power suit for the night"
"And we need to wait for Marth for coming to and for Ike to rest" added Snake.
"But Marth is in no condition to travel, and I'm not talking about fight" said Peach.
"I agree, but if we leave without him, he might run out again, searching for us and damage his leg even more" said Snake calmly.
"So it's settled, tomorrow, now if you'll excuse me, I'll going to put my power suit in the charger" said Samus picking up her power suit and going to her room.
"It's sad to say, but we don't have any lead on this" said Snake tiredly.
***
Ziddler stood in a room full of big transparent glass containers that were connected to a bit computer, each of them containing a pink almost-transparent liquid and a living organism, Ziddler however stood in front of a container something that didn't look like a living being at all.
"What are you doing here?" asked a demonic voice behind Ziddler.
"Just looking at this peculiar specimen, dear brother" said Ziddler not turning his gaze from the container.
"I seriously don't understand your interest in either those specimen of yours or the princess you kidnapped" said Ziddler's brother.
"Well dear Jingo, as you might know from the two of us I've gotten the brains whilst you got the raw strength" said Ziddler.
"Damn straight you are!" said Jingo.
"Remarkable, this specimen might seem like a mere toy for us, but it radiates great power, a power I'm intending to use" said Ziddler.
"You and your bloody plans, so what is our status so far?" asked Jingo.
"The mushroom kingdom and Bowser's domain are both ours, since their true leaders were gone away and I've crowned new rulers" said Ziddler.
"Couldn't we just have invaded, raided and took over those stupid territories, it worked just fine for me in the darned Yoshi island" said Jingo.
"Oh, now that you mention it, we DO rule Yoshi island now, however, raiding alone won't conquer lands" said Ziddler.
"So how did I conquer it genius?" asked Jingo mocking.
"Conquering a primitive island creatures is much easier then conquering a civilized kingdom" explained Ziddler.
"Whatever, so what is our next plan?" Jingo asked boringly.
"Our next targets are the Bean-Bean kingdom and the land of Hyrule" said Ziddler.
"And how are we going to do that genius?" asked Jingo.
"You'll invade the Bean-Bean kingdom with Bowser's army, while I'll make our dear princess give me control over Hyrule, her land" said Ziddler.
"At last! You have given me some good exciting job! Wait a second… how am I going to get to Bowser's castle?" said Jingo.
"I've made special portals to all of the castles in all the lands we conquered, because I know you can't teleport by yourself" said Ziddler.
"I'll be heading to Bowser's castle then" said Jingo going out of the room.
"Little brothers, you just have to love them" said Ziddler to himself, with a slight smirk.
***
Zelda's train of thought was interupted as Glorab entered the room again.
"Princess not like food Glorab bring?" asked Glorab, a bit shocked, looking at the full plates.
"No, it's just that I'm not too hungry, thank you Glorab" said Zelda.
"Its okay" said Glorab with a smile as he picked up the tray with the plates and prepared to go out.
"Wait! You don't mind staying with me here a bit for a short conversation do you?" asked Zelda.
"Sure, Glorab can stay and talk" said Glorab as he put back the tray on the table.
"Say, Glorab, does Ziddler have more servants?" asked Zelda curiously.
"Yes, but Glorab not to think they're nice, especially Vaati, he's like a proud peacock" said Glorab, not taking a seat.
The name Vaati gave Zelda memories she rather not remember, and she was pretty sure that was Vaati was dead, but it didn't care at all.
"Why don't you sit on the chair over there?"
"Glorab can?"
"Of course you can"
"Thank you nice lady" said Glorab with a smile as he jumped to the chair.
"What is your connection to Ziddler?" asked Zelda curiously.
"Master Ziddler adopted me when I was small, and saved me from a burning village" said Glorab with a wide smile on his face.
"So do you have a mother?" asked Zelda, trying (unsuccessfully) to imagine a female version of Ziddler.
"No" said Glorab "but I have an uncle, Uncle Jingo"
Zelda couldn't believe it, Ziddler actually had a brother! And it was quite weird how different was Glorab from his adopting father.
"Do you have any hobbies?" asked Zelda.
"Glorab like gardening, Glorab good with scythe-job!" said Glorab, making Zelda wonder how a 2feet tall goblin could use a scythe.
"Nice to hear" said Zelda.
Ziddler entered the room suddenly.
"Hello princess I'd like to discuss with you about something"
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A/N: What are the remaining Smashers are going to do? Who's Jingo? And what was Ziddler observing in the container room? Will I ask even dumber questions? Why pink? This and more in the next chapter (well except of the pink part, nothing personal, really)
