Chapter Thirteen: Dinosaurs!?
YEAR STAR STAR: MONTH MOON: DAY 30
"Hmm… Master Hand should be here right now… I wonder where he could be." Ike ponders. It's been a whole two hours since the incident at Princess Peach's Castle. All of the members were in the guild hall, awaiting Master Hand's arrival.
"I still think Master Hand's a big, floating hand. That'd be awesome!" Adelenn squeals. Lupo merely sighs at this. "You know, if you paid attention to all of the pictures around this place, you'd know that by now." She says. When Adelenn looks around, she can see multiple pictures of a giant, white floating hand standing beside all of the guild members. "I KNEW IT!" Adelenn exclaims! "I knew it from the start!" She lets out a big smile with determined eyes.
"Maybe he's just waiting for someone to open the door for him." Link states. He gets up from his seat and casually walks towards the door. He opens the two giant doors right in front of him with little effort.
When he does though, a giant white fist greets him, and hits him directly. WHAM! "Eek!" Vivian shrieks, and latches on to Mario's arm by impulse. "Mama Mia!" Mario jumps up. The moment that he sees Link get hit makes him nervous.
Fortunately, Link didn't even budge, he just took the hit. The giant hand also stops dead in its tracks once it made contact with Link. "Hi, Master Hand." Link cheerfully exclaims. "Welcome back to Super Smash Bros."
Mario's friends took a moment to gaze at the Master Hand. He was indeed a white hand that appeared to be a long-sleeved glove. It disappears near the wrist area, though. He was one of the two founders of the Super Smash Brothers Guild Hall. The other being his brother, Crazy Hand. His name fits his personality perfectly; he's crazy.
"Where's Glaee? Where's the award ceremony? Why are you twelve just sitting around here, doing NOTHING?" Master Hand asks quite angrily. "I've literally been trying to get my brother to stop destroying abandoned houses for about three days, and you guys haven't done a thing? How disappointing." He assumes.
Link disagrees with him, however. "Well, that's not exactly true, Master Hand. We had just finished the tourney." He says. "Mario, come and do the honors of explaining what happened." He tells Mario. "Okey-dokey." Mario exclaims.
LATER…
It only takes Mario a couple of minutes to explain everything that happened. He told Master Hand everything; including how they captured RAWR and locked him up in the basement, and about how Glaee was a murderous Death of Insanity, and his plot to kill Captain Falcon, Link and himself. There was no champion at the end, so they decided to have a little party.
"Hmm… It all makes sense now." Master Hand says. "Why did I ever trust that fool to ensure the safety of my guild? That was completely senseless and rushed of me to do. I ended up putting the entire guild at risk, especially you three. Just because my brother was being stupid." He points towards Captain Falcon, Link and Mario.
"Next time I have to go away, I'll ensure that one of US is in charge, not some random hooligan. But thank you for not letting the guild get destroyed by that maniac." He compliments. "No problem!" Mario replies with a bright smile. Master Hand also gives him a thumbs-up.
Minutes later, everyone (especially Adelenn) was eating gourmet food and drinking some exotic and rare drinks. It was paired with lots of singing, and dancing as well. It was a small, but enjoyable party between Mario's friends. Even Adelenn was enjoying watching people dance. "Wow, these people like to move in a really weird way." Adelenn points at the people dancing. "It's called dancing, Adelenn." Geno replies. "It's something that people usually do in pairs. They do it for fun."
"You mean… something like this?" Adelenn gets up and starts to move her feet in a pattern. "Am I dancing yet?" She asks. "Yeah, something like that. Try moving faster." Geno replies.
Not only did she move to the beat faster, she also stomped harder. Her footsteps were powerful enough to dent the floor with each step. Luckily, nobody but Geno and Lupo took notice of this. "Oh my goodness, Adelenn." Lupo buries her face into her hands. "Keep going, Adelenn!" Geno cheers on Adelenn, and so she continues.
That is, until she stepped on her hair and slipped. Twice she flips forward into the air. Her face was the first thing to collide with the floor. The rest of her body followed shortly behind. Mario's eleven friends at Smash Bros. also notice this happening. "Uh oh." Vivian mutters.
But suddenly, Adelenn jumps up and starts laughing. Her wing also extends and relaxes at a fast rate. "WOAH, DANCING REALLY IS FUN!" She yells aloud. She then continues to 'dance' as if nothing had happened. "Wow, she can take a LOT of heavy abuse." Vivian wonders. "Rawr." RAWR agrees, but Vivian didn't know that.
After an hour of partying, the heroes had to leave; they needed to open that Thousand-Year Door to see what's inside. "Alright, guys. We have to go now." Mario says with disappointment. "We have a job to do, so we hope to see you all later!" Vivian waves. "Yeah! Call us if you want happy fun times!" Adelenn also waves. "She means goodbye." Geno says in response. "Rawwr!" RAWR growls happily. "See ya guys later!" Lupo shouts.
Mario's other eleven friends waved him goodbye. Link, Samus, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Jigglypuff, Ness, Fox, Pikachu, Luigi, Captain Falcon and Kirby all wave back at him, with the inclusion of Patricia.
"Go and get 'em, Mario! Don't let Bowser ruin your day!" Link gives him a thumbs up. Mario returns the favor and gives Link a thumbs up as well. The six heroes gather around the Platinum Exit Pipe. One by one, the heroes jump in.
A few seconds after, Link looks around. "Alright guys, I'm gonna be doing my usual thing. Just wander around and probably help Mario. I'll be in the Mushroom Kingdom for a while." He explains to his friends. "Hey, we're not going anywhere but home, ya hear? It's been a long day." Patricia stares at Link. He stares back.
"Come on, sweetheart. Let's go." Link suddenly grabs Patricia and places her on his back. "Hey! Let go of me, you! I'm not even ready to go anywhere yet!" She starts yelling at Link. "Then why do you have your police uniform on?" Link questions Patricia. "…No comment." Patricia replies. Link walks up towards the Platinum Exit Pipe, and stands on it while still holding Patricia.
"I am so gonna hurt you for this." Patricia growls. "Yeah, okay. You go ahead and do that." Link smirks in response. Then, he jumps in, following the heroes.
"I hope he'll be alright." Captain Falcon wonders. "Sure he'll be alright! He's Link! There's almost nothing Link can't handle." Ike replies. "Well, except that girl that he's with. And maybe his cousin, too." He laughs.
MINUTES LATER…
One by one, the heroes are shot right out of the Platinum Exit Pipe and onto Sky Sanctum. The place looked untouched, which was fortunate of them. Adelenn was the first to exit, and Geno the last. "So we're here again!" Adelenn says. "And everything looks as good as new! No bad guys or nothing, and lots of clouds to-"
Suddenly, Adelenn spots something. Something green. Something really SPIKY and green. "Hey, who's that over there?" Adelenn points right at the Thousand-Year Door. All of them turn around to see what she was talking about. "Uh oh." Mario groans. "That looks like… Bowser!"
Vivian and Lupo gasp. "Great, JUST great. How many times do we have to deal with this guy before he gets off our backs?" She mutters angrily. "Wait, who's Bowser?" Adelenn asks. Geno looks at her to answer. "Big, Green Koopa. Spiky. Deadly. Mean. King of all Koopas." Geno quickly explains. He gets into his fighting stance immediately after. "I'm gonna go say hi to him!" Adelenn states, completely ignorant of what Geno just said. "No, stop!" Geno commands, but is useless. Adelenn ran at immense speed to greet the King Koopa.
When she gets there, she stops. She puts her hands behind her back and tries to find a way to greet the Koopa. The Koopa was… a little small to be Bowser, though. He was nowhere near as big as she was. She bends down to the Koopa's height. While his back was turned, Adelenn began to speak.
"Hi!" She happily states.
She was greeted by the Koopa's fist. It was indeed VERY powerful, much more powerful than a normal Koopa could produce. It hit her right in her voided eye. "Get lost! I don' need anyone following me! I gotta do something for my papa, so get out of here before I hurt ya! The Koopa says.
It wasn't strong enough to make Adelenn budge, though. She didn't even flinch. "How are ya doing? It looks like you're REALLY mad." Adelenn says. "I'm Adelenn! What's your name?"
The Koopa dared not to move when this happens. "I-I'm Junior. Bowser Jr. Hi…?" He replies. Adelenn notices that he has a bib on; the bib has a menacing shark mouth on it. It looks as if a small child drew it.
"What are you doing for your papa, Bowser Junior?" Adelenn asks Bowser Jr. He then notices Mario and friends were right behind her. "If I told you, my papa would get upset. So I can't." He replies. "Probably some bad guy stuff that he wants to do to Mario. I don't know why he even wants to beat up Mario. He just tries to, and I'm usually involved."
"Well, if you say so. There's nothing over here, so you should probably go somewhere else. I heard that there was something sparkly and shiny over at the red building over there." She points towards a market. "It has this sun-shaped thingy in it. It looks like only bad guys can get in. You should go get your papa and go in there, okay?" Adelenn pats Bowser Jr. on the head. "Oh… okay." Bowser Jr. replies sadly. Then, he walks away, sneezing. His arms start to flail, then he stops. He gets on a Koopa Clown Kart and heads down from the Sky Sanctum.
"Well, that was easy." Mario compliments Adelenn. "Wait, we were trying to make him go away?" Adelenn asks. "OOOOOOOOH."
"Anyway, we should see if the Sun Door will activate with this White Crystal Sun." Lupo exclaims. The heroes listen, and begin to walk towards the Sun Door. When they reach it, they still become amazed by its size. They always have the urge to look up when they see it.
"Alright Mario," Vivian says. "Do your thing." Mario takes this cue and pulls out the Crystal Sun Avalanche. He holds it skyward, and points it at the Sun Door. "Come on… open!" Mario wishes.
A few seconds afterward, it makes the sound of a lock becoming unhinged from a door. Then, both of the doors open. "Awesome." Geno smiles. The heroes walk through the massive doors, and continue their journey through Sky Sanctum.
This time, they come across a room that was similar to the last. Only that there are several writings around the room. Some legible. Others illegible. "Great, more hieroglyphics for me to decode." Geno mumbles. "Raaaawr." RAWR growls, looking at Adelenn. "Yeah, you can go with him." Adelenn pats RAWR on the head and kisses his head, as well. "Raaaaaawr." RAWR replies, and starts to dash towards Geno.
"Rawr." RAWR stands on his hind legs and points at one of the Hieroglyphs. "Good eye, RAWR." Geno compliments. Geno takes a look at the Hieroglyphs carefully, studying them with precision and tons of effort.
"Huh… A race for power… a necessity for greed… a lust for godly powers… and the taste for souls…" he reads. "The Ten prophesized will kill whatever stands in their path to gain the ultimate powers of old. The Ten of Light will attempt to stop this act…" He tries to read the rest, but he cannot. They were completely illegible. "Ugh, stupid Heiroglyphs." Geno mutters angrily as he walks back to his friends.
"What did you find, Geno?" Mario asks. "Not much… we're looking at the possibility that there's another source of ultimate power behind this door. Something about… greed, and souls… That part I can't piece together." He replies.
"I think we may find more Hieroglyphics once we start getting Crystal Suns. Look at that over there." Vivian points at the middle of the room, in which the heroes find five identical pedestals sitting. They were all different colors as well. "This one's white." Lupo explains. "Maybe you should put the Crystal Sun we just got over here."
Mario instinctively thought the same thing, seeing how colors associate with a LOT of things in the Mushroom Kingdom. "Alright, here goes nothing."
As soon as he places it, a beam from the Crystal Sun shoots itself. "Oooh, shiny." Adelenn whispers to herself. The beam was concentrated, and condensed. It looks as if it might come back downward. "Vivian, Magical Map, please!" Mario asks. "You got it." She replies. She pulls out the Magical Map from her Tattle Log and throws it to Mario, who catches it flawlessly.
He unfolds the map and also holds it skyward. Soon enough, the beam of light hits the Magical Map as well. The map starts to glow, and then pulsate at a steady beat. Finally, light surrounds the entire room.
At the last moment, the light died down, allowing Mario to read the contents of the Map. Where would the next Crystal Sun be located? This is what the heroes find in the Magical Map.
The Crystal Sun was an emerald green, and it was cut almost exactly like the others. Its location on the map was on a remote island, isolated from the Mushroom Kingdom. There were some pictures of extinct animals near the island, indicating that it could have been inhabited by animals of long ago.
Except… They're still there today. "Dinosaur Land?" Mario asks. "Why would it be here?"
Dinosaur Land. Mario went there on vacation a time ago (yes, he likes to go outside a lot during his free time). The rumors about it were true; Dinosaurs still exist there. It's usually why nobody goes there. The most common dinosaur living in Dinosaur Land are the Yoshis. Yoshi's Island is a part of Dinosaur Land. Bowser once made a base of operations there, but Mario still triumphed over him.
"Cool. That's a neat little island to go to." Says a voice right in front of Mario.
"I know! It has all of these cool dinosaurs. This is gonna be the next place we g-"
He recognizes the voice. "L-Link?" Mario looks up. In front of him is a happy, smiling Link with very bright teeth. Also in front of him is a grumpy, frowning Patricia Wagon, ready to smack somebody. "Hi!" Link waves happily. "Hi." Patricia groans angrily.
"You… you followed us here… why?" Mario asks. "Just doing my own thing, so I decided to tag along. Is that okay?" Link asks. His happy, innocent smile really put Mario on the spot. 'Oh, Mama Mia! I hate rejecting requests from my close friends.' He thinks to himself.
"Sure, Link. You're always welcome to tag along!" Mario smiles back. "Cool, thanks! If you don't mind, I also brought Ms. Grumpy-Pants Wagon with me. She's really nice when she's not upset." Link pokes Patricia in the cheek twice. "You'll lose that finger, honeybunch." She growls. Link stops immediately.
"That's great! I've never had so many friends traveling with me before." Lupo exclaims. "It's nice for a change." Since Lupo didn't really have friends, all she really had was family that had forgotten about her, or never knew her existence.
"So, we gotta take care of the first problem. How do we get there?" Geno brings up. "We're going to need a vehicle of sorts; there are NO Warp Pipes in the Mushroom Kingdom that connect to Dinosaur Land. It's not possible to make one, either. It has its own Warp Pipe system, and interfering with it is… pretty chaotic." Mario says. "Even though Dinosaur Land isn't that far from the Mushroom Kingdom, we're not just gonna SWIM there."
"How about… we use a Banzai Bill Blaster?" Vivian asks them. "Rosalina has one."
"A Banzai what?" Patricia looks up, and no longer upset, but confused. "A Banzai Bill Blaster in our world is a huge cannon meant to shoot Banzai Bills, but can also launch people safely. It can shoot us at a pretty fast speed. If we aimed it at Dinosaur Island, we'll be there in no time.
"AWESOME!" Link shouts. "I've done something like that before. So, what about getting back?" He asks the red plumber.
"Same way. There's also a Banzai Bill Blaster on Yoshi's Island." Mario answers. "It's extremely heavy, so I'm gonna need your help to pick it up." He points at the Fountain Dome. "That's where it is."
"You hear that, Adelenn?" Geno glares behind him to try and speak to Adelenn. "We're gonna go to Dinosaur L-"
When Geno looks behind him, he sees a sleeping Adelenn on the floor, with her body completely extended, including her wing. Fortunately, she wasn't snoring. Geno then looks up at the sky, and notices that it was sunset. "Well, that explains one thing." He says to himself.
"…Maybe we should sleep for the night." Patricia states while looking at Adelenn. "Maybe? I WANNA sleep." Link replies. "You're the strongest person ever, but you're also the laziest person ever. How do you even function like that?" Patricia angrily knocks on Link's head. "I function because… milk gives me strong bones?" He tries to respond. Mario snickers quietly for a moment.
"Anyway, Link's right. We should probably sleep. Remember, Bandits have a habit of doing terrible things at night, especially around these parts." Geno says. Lupo and some of the others yawn when he says this. Today was comfortably warm, so they decided to get out some sleeping bags and sleep on the grass in the observatory. Geno picks up Adelenn and takes her to the Bedroom. He tucks her in and leaves without making a sound as to not disturb her. RAWR also walks inside the Bedroom to sleep right next to Adelenn.
"G'night, guys." Link says. "Good night." Everyone else says. And with this, the heroes all fall asleep…
YEAR STAR STAR: MONTH TWINK: DAY 1
Geno was the first to wake. Along with being the first to wake, he was also the first to be hungry. His stomach growled in seventeen different ways, signifying that he needed to eat. He looks around to see his other friends fast asleep, but they could wake at any moment. He takes this opportunity to see what he can do in the Kitchen.
There, he finds Rosalina, cooking something. She then turns around to see Geno standing at the entrance. He immediately bows. "Hello, Lady Rosalina." He says. "I apologize for taking advantage of your Observatory. We had nowhere else to stay."
"Why, it's alright with me, Geno. I knew of your presence, and your reasons. I assure you that you've done nothing wrong." She smiles. "In fact, I have been committing some time into cooking a meal for you and your friends. Something that is called… soup." Rosalina takes a large spoon and takes a sip of the soup. "It's ready. Why don't you kindly awaken your friends, so that they may eat?" She kindly asks the Star Road Guardian.
"I will, Lady Rosalina." He replies. He walks outside the Kitchen and goes up to the heroes that are still outside sleeping. Fortunately for him, he didn't have to wake them up. The smell of the soup woke them up.
"Mama Mia, that smells tasty." A drowsy Mario says, rubbing his sleepy eyes. Lupo and Vivian are also awoken by the smell. "Mmm, food." Lupo mutters. "Wow, I'm hungry." Vivian also mutters.
Suddenly, Link bounced up high in the air. "FOOD!" He cries aloud. He looks around to see where the smell is coming from. "Oooh, it smells like soup! I'm gonna go get myself some." He says as he walks towards the Kitchen.
Patricia wakes because of Link's chatter. "I think someone lied to me when they said you were a quiet individual." She says drowsily. She folds up her sleeping bag and gives it to Mario. "So, where's Adelenn?" She asks towards Geno. "Gee, I love how you assume that I know where she is." Geno glares at her. "Anyway, she's in the Bedroom. I couldn't just leave her lying on the floor. I'll go wake her up so that she can-"
"IT'S A LITTLE BABY!" The distant sound of Adelenn screams happily. "Oh please don't tell me she's suffocating a poor Luma." Geno says nervously. Mario laughs heartily. Geno runs to the Bedroom, and surely enough, Adelenn is hugging a Luma.
"Look, Geno! It's a floating star baby! He says his name is Lum." Adelenn says to him. 'Oh my lord.' Geno thinks to himself. "Adelenn, put him down carefully, please. You can't just be hugging every cute thing you see. And besides, food is ready. We're having soup." Geno says.
Geno also notices that Adelenn is wearing different clothes. Instead of her purple dress, she was wearing a small, yellow shirt and denim shorts. Her purpled dress was seen washing inside of a glass bowl filled with water. On her stomach and back, larger, and darker scars could be seen. It looked pretty gruesome.
When she heard the word "food," she put down the Green Luma almost immediately. "FOOD? WHERE?" Adelenn says in shock. She takes only the tiniest whiff to know where it was coming from. "It's at the red house, isn't it?" She asks. Geno simply nods, and she runs out of the Bedroom and into the Kitchen.
Later, all seven of the heroes, RAWR and Rosalina were eating delicious soup. It was full of exquisite flavor, and was overall enjoyable. It also had some healing qualities, which in turn allows the soup to double as medicine.
"Adelenn, who changed your clothes?" Patricia asks. "Hmm…" Adelenn pauses for a moment. "I think it was the Princess of Time and Space." Adelenn says, but she was completely asleep when she was changed; she had no idea. The others glare at her. "Uh… there's a Goddess of Time. Not so sure about a Princess of Time." Link says before slurping up the noodles in his soup.
"So, about that Banzai Bill Blaster…" Patricia begins. She's almost interrupted by the sound of Adelenn loudly slurping up her soup. "When do you want to start moving it?"
"No need to." Rosalina replies, as she gets Adelenn another bowl of soup. "Thank you!" Adelenn says aloud. Rosalina kindly smiles in return. "Young Lupo and I took care of that when you were asleep. It's ready for use." She looks at Lupo, who smiles in response. "Yup. Mario was right, though. It really was heavy." Lupo smirks, and scratches her head.
The others were quite happy about this turn of events. "Awesome. Now we can get that Crystal Sun in no time." Link says happily. He finishes his bowl of soup and washes it. "Remember, Link. We still have to find it IN Dinosaur Land. It's not going to be as easy as that." Vivian explains.
"I'm sure we'll find some clues, though. A Crystal Sun can never move without leaving a trace." Says Mario. "RAWR! Rawrwwrawr." RAWR happily growls at Adelenn. "Oh yeah! RAWR wants to see dinosaurs! The closest thing he's seen to dinosaurs are some dinosaur Pokémon." Adelenn translates for RAWR.
Minutes later, they are all finished eating. Almost all of them felt full (not Adelenn or Link, though). "Aaaah, that was good." Link smiles. "Now, let's go try us some cannons!" He tense up with excitement and his smile gets bigger. As the heroes walk to the cannon, Patricia drags him by the ear so that he would move. They hang around near the middle of the Observatory.
"So… where's the cannon?" Vivian puts her hands on her hips, as she sees nothing before her eyes. Clearly, she was disappointed. "Don't worry, don't worry." Lupo exclaims. "It's hidden under the ground." Lupo takes out a remote control, with a giant red button (how cliché) in the center. When she presses it, two giant, metal trapdoors open. Then, a platform from beneath the trapdoor rises. It contained the Banzai Bill Blaster.
It was enormous. It was a giant, black cannon that could easily fit a Banzai Bill. Holding up the cannon are large, steel girders that are also colored in black. There was a ladder on the side of the girder that allowed anyone to climb up to and down from the Banzai Bill Blaster.
"Whoa. It's biiiiig." Adelenn says. "You can say that again." Patricia responds. "Big looks like an understatement." Link says.
"So, this is what we're gonna be using to get to Dinosaur Land, huh?" Vivian looks up and down, studying the Banzai Bill Blaster. "…Is this safe?" She questions.
"Of COURSE it's not safe!" Link says happily. "That's what makes it so fun!" Patricia looks at Link with disappointment. "No wonder you're such a daredevil of a hero." Patricia mumbles. "No wonder you're such a tank of a cop." Link replies with sarcastic annoyance.
The heroes all climb up the Banzai Bill Blaster's girders and reach the cannon. Rosalina slowly flies up to watch them. She must be there to instruct the heroes.
"Friends, in order to use the Banzai Bill Blaster, you must be one with the cannon and press the button on the inside. There, you will become one with the cannon, and will be sent off to Dinosaur Land." Rosalina instructs. The heroes listen carefully.
There was indeed a button on the inside of the cannon. Mario leads everyone inside of the cannon, and they all huddle tightly. Once inside, Mario pushes the button. For a few seconds, nothing happens.
"Huh… nothing happened." Mario notices. He tries again. Nothing.
"Oh!" Rosalina remembers something. "The cannon is quite slow. It may be some time before it-"
Suddenly, the Cannon aims right at Dinosaur Land. It moves so quickly and suddenly that it shifts the heroes off balance. Then, it coils. "Uh oh." Lupo lets out.
Next, the Banzai Bill Blaster shoots out all of the heroes at an incredible speed, and right at their destination, as well.
Dinosaur Island.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN END
But wait! Something evil was afoot. In a base not far from the Cosmic Observatory, two Koopas of royal blood were eavesdropping on everything related to Dinosaur Land.
"Did you catch all of that, papa? They're going to Dinosaur Land." Says Bowser Jr. "Why would Mario want to go back over there?" Bowser Jr. was indeed very confused. He doesn't know what the relevance of the Crystal Suns were.
"Don't worry, son. You'll find out soon enough! BWAHAHA!" Bowser laughs. Bowser Jr. looks disappointed as this happens. 'Oh, papa, you're so obsessed with finding and destroying Mario! It's not like he's done anything to you.' He thinks to himself.
"Junior, go get Ludwig and Roy. They'll be assisting me in getting that Crystal Sun." He commands his son. "Yes, papa." Bowser Jr. says, and leaves the room immediately.
"When I get my hands on a Crystal Sun, I WILL beat him. No excuses! It's PERFECT!" He starts talking to himself, and he laughs evilly. This doesn't bode well for the heroes. Now, Bowser will be following them! Mario will have to be quick, or else Bowser may foil HIS plans!
CHAPTER THIRTEEN REALLY END