Chapter 12: Lovebirds, Robots, and Paintings, Oh My!

AN: I've received a few questions about the SSS introduced here. Well, it's basically a cloning machine, and each button inserts DNA of an item into the cloner, thus reproducing the item!

"I see you got those plumbers back. Good thing, as this couple was lookin' for 'em." said Jamjars.

"Remember us, Mario? It's Raz and Raini! We've been looking everywhere to thank you for clearing the wedding hall several years ago! We have a special item to give you. It's called a 'Super 'Shroom Storage.' It can make any kind of mushroom, just with the press of a button! Just press a button, and..." Raini pressed one of the buttons, and a Goomba popped out. "...I guess it DOES make any kind of mushroom that's ever existed... Well, anyway, we need to get back to our 192nd honeymoon! See ya later!" They then went back through the time hole back to the Mushroom Kingdom, then reappeared. "Oh, we almost forgot. Have this odd key that we found! Bye!" Then they went back for good.

"I see you're loaded. Care to buy anything?" asked Bottles as he handed them a list of brand new merchandise.

Bottles:

Frog Suit: MLAllows you to swim for an indefinite amount of time 150N

Boom Box: Au? 200N

Mega Hammer: AA Piko Piko Hammer upgrade 200N

Tanooki Suit: MLTurns you into a tanooki 300N

Feather: MLAllows you to fly 300N

Metal Cap: MLTurns you into liquid metal 300N

Dragon Pot: MLTurns you into a dragon for 1 minute each time 500N

Bull Cap: MLTurns you into a bull version of yourself for a minute 500N

Fang: MLTransforms you into a vampire until garlic touches you500N

Garlic Button: MLA button for the Super 'Shroom Storage 500N

Chomp Whistle: EvSummons a Chain Chomp 500N

Koopa Curse: ML? 500N

Translator: EvTranslates every dialogue into English 800N

Jamjars:

Bros Ball: MLAllows you to transform into a ball 500N

Thunderhand: LBasic electric move 500N

Firebrand: MBasic fire move 500N

Bros Cyclone: MLSpin at a very fast speed 500N

Roadkill: Ev? 1000N

"...Well, aren't you ever so popular!" Sonic mentioned to Mario. They had 4420 notes, including those 6 notes THAT WOULD NOT GO AWAY! They purchased the Translator, the boom box, the frog suits, thunderhand and firebrand moves, and the two caps, the fang, the feather, and the button. The boom box vanished, and all its data went to my online music player, which I refuse to name as it's free publicity! (cue E. Gadd theme)

"Hey, fellers!" E. Gadd said. "I have it ready! What, you may ask? Why, it's FLUDD 2.0! It can move in its own now. Here it comes!"

A sleek and shiny robot appeared. "I am FLUDD 2.0. A Flash Liquidizing Ultra Dousing Device, taken to the next level. Watch me pump wat...e...r..." As it tried to pump, it blew its circuits and crashed on the floor.

A sweatdrop appeared on E. Gadd. "Well... Darn it! I'm going to the extreme! See you whippersnappers later!" With that he dashed off.

"...Well, it seems like we need to be elsewhere. Any sign of other artifacts?" asked Tails.

There was a minute of silence, and then... "Kirby! Kirby!" shouted out the pink fluffball.

"...What was that?"

Suddenly, everything in the background as fire replaced it. Suddenly Kirby seemed to grow 5 stories tall with fiery eyes. "KIRBY, KIRBY!" it yelled.

"Wha-OUCH!" Sonic elbowed him.

"Use the censored translator already!"

When Tails put on the headset, Kirby's translated voice came in. "...If you make me say it one more friggin' time, I swear I'm gonna phrase censored"

"... ... ... ...I'm emotionally scarred for life."

"Finally, a breakthrough to that supposed 'genius'! You gotta drop me off at the SUPERHEROES convention, which is coincidentally close to where one of the Holy Table Setting pieces are. ...That look on your face... You've never heard of them have you? If someone were to dine using all the pieces, they would have a full stomach."

"You interrupt us just to get us to recover DISHES AND SILVERWARE?"

"You interrupted me. I was GOING to say they would have a full stomach, AND be invincible until all traces of the food they ate were gone. That's invincibility for a good two days straight at one sitting. Apparently, the meeting's being held in Dry Dry Desert. I remember hearing something about a warp from a castle to there."

"Know of any castles, Mario?"

"Well, there's the Princess's castle. Let's try there."

cue castle theme from PiT

"Oh, Mario! The princess! She's been taken!" yelled Toadsworth.

"By Bowser again, I bet."

"No-by the council of the people!"

"Oh. Would it be for 'spawning evil'?"

"Wait... How do you know?"

"Long story. Toadsworth, have you seen a door that this key might fit in?" He showed the key, which had a Goomba on the end opposite end of the teeth.

"Hmm... Well, there is one door. We've been looking for the key to there for years. We couldn't get in after Bowser took over the castle and was thrown out again. We never found the key. Come with me!" With that, he led them to Princess Peach's chambers, where the infamous 'secret wall switch' was pressed. After going through the fireplace, he directed them through another secret corridor behind a fake wall. "You see, here it is." The door he was pointing at looked like a large Goomba, and it was a pair of doors with a lock in the center. When the key was turned in the lock, the door opened, and there was a room with another door at the far side. This one, and the next one, and the one after that, all had keys in their locks. The second door was of a Toad. The third door was in the shape of a Koopa Shell, and the fourth was a Nomadimouse. There were also large portraits of places. The first was just a black space. The second was of a gloomy-looking wall with a green pipe. The third was of a hammock with a content Koopa lying on it, and the last was a thick curtain.

"What are these for?" Amy asked.

"Well, a few years ago, Bowser took over the castle and made warps to other places through paintings of short descriptions of the place, and in one case, a huge clock, and a hole that lead to a place far above the clouds." answered Mario.

"Well then, let's try to get into these paintings. ...No, let's test them first. I'll poke it and if my finger goes through, then someone can get through it."

"...No, wait. Only one person can get through at a time." Toadsworth mentioned.

"No problem!" Kazooie squawked. "Let's just use the Taxi Pack!"

"Okay, my fingers can get through! Everyone in! You too, Kirby!" Banjo shouted. When everyone got in, the bear leaped into the picture of the Koopa.

Kooper enjoyed his new picture of Princess Peach's castle. He stared at it a lot in his free time, wondering where Mario was. He was probably off on another adventure. Once, he saw a pink finger come out of it, but he thought nothing of it. Then, a minute or two later, a bear burst through it. It threw Kooper into a state of mild shock, but he was even more surprised when he started pulling other things out, which were several animals and two famous plumbers. "Mario! Long time no see!"

"Hey, Kooper. We were just seeing where the picture led, and it brought us here to Koopa Village, I guess."

"You know, I got that odd painting off of a flea market a few weeks ago. It was a little after a creepy shadow spread across town, then vanished about a half-hour later. Was it an evil witch who was easy, yet wasted your time by monologuing?"

"Yeah, that was the Shadow Queen. Well, see ya later. We just wanted to know where it led." After waving goodbye, everyone returned to the castle.

"So, if the door with the Koopa shell led to Koopa Village, then logic would follow that the Goomba was Goomba Village, the Toad was somewhere below Toad Town, and the mouse thing would probably lead to a desert." stated the now-competent Big. Following that logic, they all sprang into the backpack and into the painting towards a new destination...