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Joey's eyes snapped open.

At first he thought he was still dreaming - it was so dark it was almost exactly like the black void in his mind, but light coming out of the bottom of a door a few feet away told him otherwise.

He sat up quickly, flinching as he remembered he slept on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed. But when no bottom of a top bunk hit him, he stopped.

"What. The heck." He whispered.

He climbed out of the bed he was in ("Uhhhh...?" was his response to that) and walked over to the door. After a moment of feeling around to find the handle, he pulled it open.

He was greeted by a red carpeted hallway. Multiple doors ran down either wall each with a logo or... icon, or... something. For some reason, though, he couldn't see them properly - he realized he didn't have his contacts in.

He sighed. "Forget it. I'll deal with this later..." He muttered, going back in his room and lying back in the bed he woke in.

But, just as before he drifted back in to unconsciousness, something outside the door jarred him back up. But, of course, he ignored it - you would, too, if you had been knocked unconscious by an explosive.

Then it slowly opened.

Joey adjusted himself just barely so he could see the door, but before he could see who opened it, they were gone. He only caught a glimpse of a green, sock-like hat before the door was closed.

(The Next Morning...)

(Seven AM)

Gray stretched.

"A new day." He said, rubbing his eyes. He reached over to his left and patted a snoring Theo on the shoulder. "Dude, get up!" He shouted.

Thwap!

"No." Theo said. "I'm sleeping."

Then the snoring continued.

Gray rubbed his reddened cheek. "Well, jeez." He said, walking out of the door. Once more, the red carpeted hallway full of doors greeted him.

"Alrighty..." He whispered over the growling of his stomach. "Just gotta..."

He tentatively put a foot out - the floor in his house creaked, so he was prepared for this one to creak as well.

No creaking.

"Huh." He said, relaxing.

One step after another, he tiptoed down the hall, inching closer and closer to the elevator. Finally, he was in front of it.

Of course, it was ridiculously confusing.

It didn't look like there was a call button, just a little box on the wall. Gray poked it, pulled it, tapped it, punched it, even spoke to it, but nothing happened.

Then he pried the doors open.

Inside was a couch. And a TV. And a mini-fridge.

"It's for long trips, like from the top to the bottom."

Gray whirled around and saw Link wearing Triforce pajamas.

"Uh... hi, Link." Gray stammered.

"Morning." Link greeted, walking into the elevator and sitting down. He patted the cushion next to him.

Gray sat down next to him, surprised.

"First Floor." Link said.

Suddenly, the doors closed and the elevator started moving.

"You know, I never expected you to be an early bird. You seem more like someone who sleeps until noon." Link commented.

"Naw." Gray said. "I like to be up in the early morning so that I have as much time as possible to do what I want."

"I feel the same way." Link agreed. He reached over and pulled the mini-fridge open. "Thirsty?"

"Is there OJ in there?"

"Oh, yeah."

"Yes. Yes-I-want-OJ-immediately." Gray almost shouted.

"You like Oj, I gather." Link noted.

"Well, our parents never bought it. Money and just the fact that they had 5 kids sort of prevented us from getting some. Now, we weren't poor!" Gray added, seeing the look on Link's face. "If we can afford a $4,000 (or was it $40,000? I can never remember) pool and get pizza the same day, we are not poor! The pool has heating and a diving board and takes up half our yard, too! It's just that a carton of orange juice costs like twenty bucks, and we'll drain it in an hour. It's just not worth it." Gray finished.

Link handed him a glass full of orange juice, which he took and drank a huge swig of it. "Oh man, it's been so long since I've some of this."

First Floor.

The two stood up and walked out of the elevator into the main room.

"So... which door was it again?" Gray asked.

Link pointed to the door on the far left.

"Alrighty..." Gray said, strolling over to the door.

"Wait!" Link interrupted him.

"What?" Gray asked over the now-louder roaring of his stomach.

"Let me see if anyone's in there." Link said, pulling the door open and peeking in. "All clear." He said. "Come on."

"Woah." Gray whispered. "And I thought this chapter would be boring."

Inside the dinning room/kitchen was a huge golden snake.

Well, more description is probably desired. It was, indeed, a huge golden snake, but it's body was split into large rocks with silver wire-like textures in between. Apparently a large table had been in the center of the blue carpeted, ornate room, as wood chips were scattered all around the room.

"Woah! Gray, have you got your sword?" Link said, drawing his out of... his pockets.

"Um... maybe. Let me try... this..." Gray said, reaching over his shoulder. He found himself grabbing the handle of his sword. "Huh. Could've sworn I took it off when I went to bed." He paused before noticing that he was also wearing his normal clothes - SMB T-shirt, jeans, Converse and all. "Wait, wasn't I just wearing my Rainbow Dash pajamas?" He looked over and found Link back in his tunic. "Wha- weren't you just in Triforce pajamas?"

"Don't question it and get slashing!" Link said, dashing at the golden snake.

"O-okay!" Gray shouted, running after Link.

(Mario's Room...)

Luigi's eyes snapped open.

After going to six haunted mansions in which you're scared silly, you tend to be a light sleeper, and smashing and yelling a floor below is usually enough to wake you up.

"What is that-a...?" He whispered. "M-Mario?" He said nudging his heavy-sleeper brother.

"Calm-a down, Luigi." Mario said, not opening his eyes. "You-a got rid of all of the-a ghosts last game..."

"M-Mario, I-a don't think it'sa ghost."

"It'sa probably just-a Bowser accidentaly bumping all of the-a chairs."

"Then go if you're-a so curious." Mario muttered, turning away from Luigi.

"Uh... Okay then..." Luigi said, grabbing his Poltergust 5000 out of a chest nearby before tiptoeing out of the room.

(The Dining Room/Kitchen...)

Link and Gray stood infront of the giant snake, all three of them panting. It was definitely going to be hard to finish this battle -

Vroooom...

Suddenly the snake was sucked into a familiar green-dressed plumber's ghost catching vacuum.

"Oh. Hi, Luigi!" Link said, quickly pulling Gray behind his back. "What's up?"

"Uh... well, we-a just beat a big golden snake..." Luigi began.

"Gray." Link whispered.

"What?"

"Climb into my back pocket." Link said.

"What?!"

"TRUST ME." He Link whispered.

"Okay..." Gray said, sticking a hand in the back pocket of Link's tunic. Suddenly, he was thrown forward Dumbledore's Pensieve style.

He found himself on top of the cork of a potion bottle.

A huge one, at that.

"Woah." Gray said. "Hammerspace pocket dimension magic."

Of course, what else was there to do but explore? Which he'll do nnnnnnn-

-nnnnnext time, in A Smashing Adventure!

So... yeah.

Next time.