Note: Fire Brother Combo was renamed Firebrand Combo in the previous chapter.
Chapter 12
Heading for the Third Round
"I'm going to f---ing kill you all and prove to you that AP Flums are the f---ing best and that you should never f---ing come against us!" Aohige said angrily as he pointed the gun at the good guys.
"Please… Don't shoot…" Luigi cried.
"Don't think you can scare us just because you have a gun!" Franky said. "And bullets don't work on me too!"
"Ha! That's the f---ing stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Aohige said. "You'll see who's laughing in the end once I pulled the trigger!"
He was ready to pull the trigger when suddenly the floor between the good guys and him burst open and Bob came jumping out in an uppercut position, much to everyone's surprise. Bob spun gracefully in the air like a ballerina and then landed onto solid floor with a cool pose. He stood up and stretched out his arms and said with delight, "At last! I made it to the top! Why didn't I think of simply creating a way upward in the first place? Right, Obb?" Bob turned to his left hand to talk to his puppet, but noticed it wasn't on his hand anymore. "Obb? Where are you, Obb? Obb? Hello!"
He looked in every direction for his puppet and everyone gave him strange looks. Bob eventually saw where his puppet was; it was right next to Aohige's foot. "Oh there you are!" Bob said. "You shouldn't be running away like that, Obb! Or maybe you fell off when I jumped up? Sorry about that if it is the case!" He stretched his hand out to Aohige and said, "Excuse me, kind sir. Would you please bring Obb to me?"
"Eh?" Aohige looked down at the puppet next to his foot, but then a wicked smile appeared on his face and he stepped on the puppet and grinded it underneath his shoe, much to Bob's horror.
"What are you doing to Obb?!" he shouted with shock. "Don't hurt him!"
"I can do whatever the hell I want! Nyahahaha!" Aohige laughed mockingly. "Try and stop me, s---head!"
"How dare you try to kill Obb?! You're making me angry! You will get what you deserve!" Bob said angrily.
"Yahahah! Tell the gods to punish me then! Muahahaha! What kind of a grown man plays with puppets? Yahahaha!" Aohige continued to laugh at Bob while trampling the puppet over and over, and then he realized that Bob was swinging his fist right at him.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!
Bob delivered an incredibly powerful skull-shattering punch into Aohige's face. With a sickening crack, his face was bent inward, his neck twisted to the side and teeth flew all over the place, leaving behind trails of blood. Bob reached forward and grabbed Aohige again before he flew off the edge and gripped him tightly by the neck. "You inhumane beast! You have no mercy on my child! You must die for your sins!!!!"
"Whoa man! That guy is mad!" Franky said.
"I think that guy was one of the Negativities, wasn't he?" Luigi asked.
"Yeah, I rememba him," Mario said.
Bob lifted Aohige up into the air and then brought him down onto his back with such a force that his backbone was broken. As the AP Flum member screamed with agony, Bob grabbed him by the head and spun him vertically several times before hurling him towards the trees in the distant. Aohige shoot through the trees and crashed through several branches before falling into a swamp.
SPLASH!!!
Bob was still fuming angrily after throwing Aohige to his doom below, but then he started to calm down and the good guys were shocked at how brutal he was. "That… was… scary…" Luigi commented.
When Bob finally calmed down, he turned and went to the puppet, picked it up and dusted it, and placed it back onto his left hand. "Hey Obb, you all right?"
"Ouch! That hurts! But I'm all right now! Actually I can't feel pain because I am a puppet!" Obb said.
"That's good to hear! Thanks goodness you're all right! I thought I was going to lost you forever!"
"Don't worry; nobody can ever break our bond! We will stay with each other until the end of the world!"
The two of them talked with each happily and laughed, and Samus said, "Well… As strange as he is, we have to thanks him for saving us the trouble to deal with that guy."
"Yeah, I was starting to run out of cola power already," Franky said. "Though it probably won't be any issue dealing with that blue eyebrows anyway."
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After a few more hours had passed, it was finally four o'clock in the evening, and the participants were all warped back to the garage of Wonder Town.
"Boy, that was quite an experience we had," Luigi said, getting off the Brothers Roadster.
"Eet sure eez," Mario said.
ROB approached them and said, "Greetings. Have you fared well in the second round?"
"We went through a lot, but I'm not sure if we did manage to calculate enough points to pass," Luigi replied.
"I am sure that with your skills, passing it not an issue. Have confident in yourself and you will surely pass. Did they not say optimism will bring you to a bright future?"
"Thanks for da word of encouragement!" Mario said.
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Sonic and Tails were walking down the street together, talking about random stuff. "So where shall we have dinner tonight?" Sonic asked.
"Shouldn't we go meet up with Amy first?" Tails asked.
"I wouldn't care less about her."
Then the chairman of the tournament, Willis, came walking up to them and said to them, "Sonic and Tails."
"Oh hi, Mr. Chairman!" Tails said as he bowed down politely.
"Hey, what's up?" Sonic asked, waving hello.
"I have something to question you about, but please come with me first," Willis said to them, and then he led the way for the two animals.
He brought them inside a building that was like a museum as there were several displays of vehicles and machines set up around the place. "This is the museum of technology, right?" Tails asked.
"Yes, this museum displays technology throughout the history," Willis said. "All that you want to know about the evolution of technology can be learned here. It is a great place for people who want to expand their knowledge."
"This place sure interests me!"
"So why did you bring us here? Just to give us to a tour?" Sonic asked Willis.
"Actually, there is one thing I want to show you," Willis replied. He led them into a room and showed them one of the displays there.
Sonic and Tails were both surprised to see what the display was. Inside a glass container there were three large diamonds of three different colors. "These… are the Chaos Emeralds!" Tails said in surprise.
"What are they doing here?" Sonic asked.
"I believe that you found another one within the pyramid of the jungle, right?" Willis asked.
"Yeah, we did," Tails told him. "And we also have another one with us all along. They're both placed in the item compartment of our Land Tornado."
"I see… As for the question on where these three come from: They were here when I first came to this island to build Wonder Town."
"You found these three here on this island?" Sonic asked. "That is something…"
"I believe that these emeralds hold special powers, am I right?" Willis asked.
"Yeah! I used it to transform into my super form and fight evil several times! It feels really good too!"
"It can also be used to power up machines to its max potential," Tails added. "Because of this, Eggman always tries to get his hands on these emeralds for his own evil purposes."
"I see… I displayed these here because of its ability to power up machines, therefore it is considered a part of technology," Willis said.
"With the two that we already have at hand and the three here, that makes five emeralds together," Sonic said. "So do you plan to gather all seven of them and put them on display?"
"That wouldn't be necessary. I fear that if all seven of them are brought together, it will be easy for evil people to get their hands on them all at once," Willis said. "You can go ahead and keep the two that you already have."
"Yeah, I think it's better that way," Tails said. "We'll be keeping the two that we have then."
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Fox, Falco, and Captain Falcon were dining together at the dining area of their hotel. "This round was pretty boring," Falco said. "We got no mention at all throughout the chapters…"
"At least everything went fine," Fox told him. "I'm sure we can pass this round with ease."
"So what are you guys planning to do for the third round?" CF asked. "If I read the manual right, the next round involves water."
"Yeah, we are supposed to built a water-based vehicle for the third round," Falco said.
"We can just modify the Master Arwing to make it travel on and underwater," Fox said.
-
At another café, the Mario characters were all seated together dining and chatting. Lucario and Kirby are there too, and you should know by know that Kirby tags around with Yoshi all the time since they are close friends and rival in glutton.
"Wet Watery World?" Luigi said curiously.
"Yeah, that's what the next world is located at," Yoshi told him in between mouthfuls.
"Wow! I really want to go there!" Peach said. "That's the world's biggest and fanciest water theme park!"
"I always dreamed of going to that place with you!" Bowser said to Peach. "This is our perfect opportunity to have a date in that place!"
"So da third round will take-a place there," Mario said. "That-a means we will need-a to have vehicles that-a can travel in water."
"Is that possible?" Luigi asked.
"We can ask-a those who know about-a vehicles better than uz to help-a."
"Also, this round will start three days later on morning ten o'clock," Yoshi added. "And apparently it only lasts until evening 6 o'clock."
"That's pretty short…" Luigi commented.
"It does make sense if you think of it," Kirby said. "That place opens at ten in the morning and closes at six in the evening."
"That means we do not have time to relax in that place. We will have to do our best to rack up as many points as we can. Aye, I was hoping to actually go and have fun there."
"I'm sure you'll have fun doing job objectives there," Peach told him.
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The lights turned on and Ogre Gazm held his arm up over his eye to prevent getting blinded. "What the?!"
He saw Master Bate standing at the entrance of the room and the superhero said to him, "Put down that tablet at once, Ogre Gazm! That is an important artifact of this museum!"
"You will not stop me this time, Master Bate!" Ogre Gazm said. "You may have stopped me from using the Pedo File, but this time you're not going to stop me from reviving the legendary demon king, Dark Kum! With this tablet, I will know how to revive him!"
"Not as long as I am around!" Master Bate said, charging at the supervillain.
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Ness and Pit were busy watching the show in their room while Young Link was sitting nearby talking to his cell phone. "You call yourself lucky, eh?" he said. "Guess what, we're going to that same place and on the same day you're going too! Now you got anything to boast about? Anyway, hope to see you and Aryll over there soon! Bye!" After he hung up the phone, he turned to those two and said, "Toon Link said he is going to Wet Watery World with grandma and Aryll. He thought it was something to boast about until I told him that we are going there on the same day too."
"On the same day as the third round, right?" Ness asked.
"Yeah, and then he kept quiet afterwards."
"I'm looking forward to have a fun time over there with him!"
"Master Bate! Don't let him escape!" Pit shouted with excitement. He was watching the show with great enthusiasm and even punched the air as if he was fighting the bad guys.
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The next day…
"Mario! Mario! The results are out, and our name is on there!" Luigi shouted with excitement as he rushed into the bathroom where Mario was just pulling up his pants from using the toilet.
"Really?" Mario said. He quickly rushed to the balcony without washing his hands and looked at the blimp hovering in the air. "Yes! I see eet! Our name eez there! We passed da second round!"
"All right! I knew we would make it! I never thought we could make it this far!" Luigi said excitedly
-
Soon afterwards, they were at a cafeteria eating breakfast.
"Congratulations!" DK said to Mario, patting him on the shoulder.
"You guys rock totally!" Diddy said.
"Let's give you guys a cheer for this!" Yoshi said, holding up a cup of orange juice.
"Yay! Cheers!" Kirby said, also holding up his cup.
"May the aura be with you," Lucario said, holding up his cup.
"Thank you so much, everyone!" Mario said. "Now we are pumped up-a for da third round! We will try our best-a to win da third round too!"
As they talked with each other happily, Peach came over to their table with a tray of food and took her seat in between Mario and Bowser. "The Hanagumi got disqualified," she said.
"They are? Well, too bad for them," Bowser said.
"I gave them words of comfort already and they are feeling better. They are looking forward to have a fun time at Wet Watery World though."
"I'm looking forward to go to that place too! I saw it on the TV commercial a few times and it looks exciting!" Diddy said.
"I think all the other Smashers are going too," Kirby said.
"No surprise," Yoshi said while biting sausage. "Who would want to pass out this opportunity to visit Wet Watery World for free?"
"Actually, it's not free," Peach said. "Whether you are going there to create jobs or not, you still need to pay a fee. Of course, there is a special discount, so the price is cheaper. Still, it's definitely something I wouldn't want to pass out. I always wanted to go there to beat the heat and good thing the weather is somewhat humid around these days. It would be nice to visit the aquarium too!"
"I'm sure we'll have a great time there, my Peach!" Bowser said to her.
"You go play in the water yourself…"
-
In a blink of an eye, three days had already passed and all the participants who were promoted to the third round were once again gathered at the garage.
The big screen appeared as usual and displayed Willis on it. "Greetings, everyone! I hope you had a good sleep! It's early morning, but this is the best time we can start the third round. The third round will take place in the world's biggest water theme park, Wet Watery World!"
Then the screen changed to showing sceneries of the theme park. There were large swimming pools that came in lots of variety and towering slides and various other water-related attractions. Pictures of an aquarium as well as a shopping center were also shown.
"Wet Watery World is a water theme park built out at sea and goes down to the seabed. The dome-like architecture protects it from weather effects outside while at the same time providing sunlight through its glass encasing. Above sea level is the main attraction, the public swimming pool. There are pools of various kind as well as various other attractions all for enjoying water to the maximum. It definitely is a place for water lovers and the perfect place to beat the heat! Down in the sea level is the shopping center that sells water and sea related souvenirs, but the main attraction down there is the underwater aquarium. You will be able to view sea creatures swimming around in their natural habitat through the glass walls. There is also a submarine ride that takes you on a tour out in the sea and you can experience scuba diving firsthand too! Without doubt, it is the best water theme park in the world!
"Now let me move on to the main point. This round will only end at six in the evening as that is the time when the theme park closes, so you will have to get busy if you want to move on the fourth round. Don't worry; you will only need to have at least 320 points for this round. I'm sure many of you have racked up more than 250 in the previous round, so it should be easy for the most of you.
"Since water is the main theme here, your vehicles and inventions must all be waterproof. If you are planning to travel around on your vehicle, please take care as there are tourists all over the place and it can get crowded at times. I recommend that you travel on foot as much as possible and only use your vehicles for objectives that require them.
"Without further delay, let us begin the third round of the Tournament of Wonderful and Great Inventions! Good luck and hope that you have a great time there!"
Like always, a beam of light came out from the big screen to shine on the participants, and each of them disintegrated into particles and went into the big screen.
TO BE CONTINUED
Nothing big really happened here because I can't think of anything but moving on to the next round right away. The next round will be somewhat casual compared to the previous two, but I'm sure you'll still enjoy it.
Also, I never meant for there to be an actual fight with Aohige, so deal with it.
PROFILE OF WONDERFUL AND GREAT INVENTORS
Bob Iamanidiot
Age: 46
Favorite food: Pie
Likes: Being dumb
Dislikes: Smart people
Description: A man covered from head to toe in dark blue armor. The helmet is dome-shaped with a small slit serving as eyeholes and there is a short pair of bullhorns on top of the helmet.
Bio: Born in the country of Foolurene, Bob is like all other Fools, very dumb and being proud of it. He married a woman from another country and she plans to make Foolurene a better place by offering education. Though not pleased with this idea entirely, he still respected her opinion. However, the government learned about this and because education is a taboo in Foolurene, his wife and his children, who are not pure-blooded Fools, were proclaimed guilty and sentenced to death. This was a huge loss for Bob and he started to believe that if everybody in the world were very dumb to begin with, this would never have happened. He formed the organization called PURISTS (Painful and Unbelievably Racial Idiots of Stupidity's Terror) and went around committing crime, but his attempts were brought to an end by the Smashers. He escaped from jail however and joined the Negativities to take over the world, but with the fall of the evil organization under the Smashers' hands, he was defeated once again.
Obb
Age: Made two months ago prior to this story
Favorite: Puppets don't eat
Likes: Puppets don't have likes
Dislikes: Puppets don't have dislikes
Description: A puppet made in the likeliness of Bob.
Bio: A puppet made by Bob to give himself someone to talk too, 'nuff said.
Bobmaster
Description: A large blue tank with a futuristic design. Instead of being controlled from the inside, the driver's seat and controls are on the top just behind the turret.
Features: Shoot using the turret, traveling over any kind of terrain with ease, short-period hovering, a secret transformation
Trivia: Bob is never seen without his armor and what he actually looks like is a complete mystery.