"This looks so s-scary..." Bubbles whispers with a scared voice.

"I know, Bubbles," Mario says, "but it'll be okay. We'll just walk in the pyramid and hopefully there will be nothing in here."

"Yeah, it's not like there's gonna be a bunch of dead bodies or mummies or a giant moving pyramid like creature," Buttercup chimes in.

Blossom, Luigi, and Mario give her a glare.

"Whaaaaat? I'm just saying!" Buttercup says.

"Yeahhhh that's not really helping any matters, BC," Luigi replies. BC is what Buttercup is called occasionally.

The group steps inside the pyramid to find a bunch of mummified Thwomps and goombas, Spindels, and a Dry Mummy Mummy Guy. Bubbles and Buttercup start screaming at the sight of the enemies. And here I thought Buttercup was the tough one.

"Oh please, it's just a stupid mummy," Luigi dismissed arrogantly. "What's the harm it could-" He stops mid sentence and shrieks and holds onto his big brother when a mummified goomba steps towards him.

"Wow, what a great role model," Mario says sarcastically. Am I the only one who's not scared? Mario thought.

"It's not my fault! I'm scared of mummies!" Luigi said.

"Ha ha, don't worry about it. It won't hurt you... it's only a goomba." Mario pats Luigi's head tenderly just to reassure him that the said goomba won't kill them. It's not like it's gonna use its bandages to steal the blueprint of Mojo Jojo's weapon that he still had in his pocket... or was it?

The girls and the Mario Bros defeat the mummified enemies while trying to find their way out of the giant pyramid. A few of them they had to use their powers -Laser eyes, ice breath, fire powers- eventually they reach a maze, along with a P switch. Mario jumps on the switch and out comes the coins. Tons of blue colored coins.

"Woah... look at that, a maze!" Blossom exclaimed.

"And there's so many coins to guide us!" Buttercup added.

"Yeah!" Luigi agreed. "Let's go!"

The group start running towards the maze, figuring out which way they should go, which way is a dead end and which one is not. Halfway through the maze, the boos start chasing them and suddenly the pyramid starts rumbling.

"Hey... does anyone feel the ground shaking?" Mario asked.

"Yeah," Luigi says. "I can also feel as if the sand's falling down on us." A pebble starts to fall on Luigi's head.

As if on cue, the earthquake started up again. Mario felt tons of sand fall on the group and a sand pile drops down.

"OH NO!" Mario exclaimed.

"What?!" Luigi said.

"I think we'd better run. We're gonna be trapped any minute!"

"Wait, what about the maze?" Blossom asks.

"Forget the maze! Survival's more important!"

The group splits up to avoid drown, and as Mario and Luigi start to go in the rightful path with an exit, they heard a maniacal laughter followed by a creepy voice. The maze starts to have more obstacles and more sand begins to drop in.

"Mwe he he he he..." a deep demonic voice cackled. "It's no use. You're trapped here forever."

"What... what do you mean?!" Mario asked. "Who's there?!"

Rocks then start to topple over.

"SHOW YOURSELF!" Luigi exclaims.

"Hohohoho... I'm afraid I can't do that. You see, the people who have crossed this pyramid never get out because of a certain moving pyramid object. And his name was Eyerok," the voice goes on.

Eyerok? That sounds so familiar... Mario thought. The name reminded him of the fight he had at the desert paintings in Princess Peach's castle.

"And those who dare cross past Eyerok... do not get the chance to get past him and they get squashed by Eyerok because he hates trespassers," the voice said. "AND THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU."

Mario and Luigi both had widened eyes as chills got sent to their spines.

"YOU MUST SUFFER YOUR FATE!" the eerie voice screams.

Then two pairs of Boo arms grab the brothers and knock them out with the rocks. Before Mario could protest, his consciousness starts to fade and the last thing he hears is Luigi screaming, desperate to be saved.


Meanwhile, after hours upon searching for her missing sisters, Blossom finds Bubbles and Buttercup clearly terrified at the sight of the falling sand and toppling rocks, afraid to die. And the two villains accompanied the two girls are two ghosts about to kidnap them. Before each of the ghosts could lay a hand on them, in came Blossom.

"Leave my sisters alone!" Blossom shouted. She attempts to punch the ghosts but they just dodge the attack.

"HA! You think you can beat US Boos?" the ghost scoffs.

Those are called Boos? What an odd name, Blossom thought.

"Well, guess what? You can't. We're invisible little girl."

"Really? Well, what if I do..." Blossom pulls out a scary mask with HIM's creepy smile and puts it on her face, "THIS?"

The ghosts shriek in fright.

"AAAAAAA! IT'S THE DEVIL! Let's get outta here, man!" Boo one exclaimed.

"YAH I AGREE! This thing's creepy! I am never scaring little girls again!" Boo two said.

Now feeling threatened, the boos fly away. After a sigh of relief from Blossom, her sisters are utterly delighted to see her and hug her tightly.

"Blossom! You're okay!" They both shout gleefully.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Blossom said, happy to see them. "What the heck happened there?"

"Those two ghosts were telling a story how some people never get past Eyerok because he's impossible to defeat," Bubbles begins.

"And they said the same thing was gonna happen to us, too!" Buttercup finishes. "But luckily you came in just in time because they were about to kidnap us."

"Well, come on, let's find our way out of this-" Blossom was interrupted by Luigi's desperate screaming for help.

"HELP! SOMEONE HELP US! WE'VE BEEN- MPPHH!" Luigi's voice started but was quickly cut off.

The girls gasp in horror.

"Oh no! It sounds like Mario and Luigi are kidnapped!" Bubbles cried.

"No kidding. I could hear it from a mile away," Buttercup said.

"Wait a minute... it sounds like it's coming from over there!" Blossom exclaimed, pointing to the end of the maze. It shows a huge switch which may lead the girls to the boss. Maybe THEY have Mario and Luigi!

"Yeah! And there's a switch nearby too!" Buttercup exclaimed.

"Let's press it!" Bubbles says.

The trio runs to the switch and presses the blue colored switch. Out comes Eyerok, each hand has one eye and he looks rather creepy. And there's Mario and Luigi, knocked out and tied up to the wall with the mummy tape right to Eyerok. "Who dares disturb my slumber?! Who broke the seal of the ancient ones?" The hand roars.

"Um... we heard you have Mario and Luigi... so GIVE THEM BACK!" Blossom exclaimed.

"HA HA! That's a laugh. Of course I'll give them back... after you battle me... HAND TO HAND! We don't like intruders!"

"Bring it on, two hands!" Buttercup shouts.

The battle begins with Buttercup standing on the tomb Eyerok slamming his fists to the ground. Buttercup dodges the attack and punches the left hand and eye. Bubbles and Blossom help by doing a double fist to the right hand. Eyerok gets angry and tries to push them off but the girls try to resist it by pushing back. However, Eyerok successfully pushes Bubbles away.

"It's no use!" Bubbles said, getting up. "Pushing the hand won't do anything!"

"Well what are we supposed to do?! Punch the hands?" Blossom asked.

"That's exactly what we're supposed to do!" Buttercup exclaimed.

"Wha-?"

"I read this legend where if you punch Eyerok's eyes on each palm three times, then he'll be defeated. And then an ancient being comes out and that's the final phase."

"So... since you already punched the left and Bubbles and I punched the right, then that means... Two more punches to go on each hand!" Blossom concluded. Bubbles was the only one skeptical about this but believed the lime clad anyway.

"Yes! Let's get to punching!" Buttercup said.

"Ok! Bubbles, you and Buttercup take the left hand! I'll take the right!"

And so we start punching the eyes as hard as we could. Buttercup and Bubbles have already finished off the left hand and assist me with the right hand. We finish off with one last punch to the eye. Eyerok starts to fall apart and we stare at him for a brief second.

"Did we beat him...?" Bubbles asked.

"HA! Did you really think that you could beat ME?!" An ancient mummy being comes out of Eyerok. The mummy being had red eyes and looked like a ghost from the past. All bandaged up, part of his decaying face showed.

Dang, Buttercup was right after all, Bubbles thought.

"Who are you?!" Blossom asked.

"I am the mystical mummy being that has possessed Eyerok for quite some time now... I thought he would be of use to me but apparently he's too weak fpr me. But this isn't over yet! I shall turn him into a head and he and I will destroy you!" the ancient spirit claimed.

He then starts to form the two hands into a big statue head. This statue head starts spewing sand from his mouth and shoots laser eyes.

"Oh please, we can do that," Buttercup said, fighting back with laser eyes.

The statue head dodges the girls' eye beams and tries to bury them with the sand he spits out. They respond by blowing the sand back at the statue head's face. He's not able to see so this gives them a chance to come up with a counter attack. Bubbles uses her thunder clap to stun the statue head while Buttercup throws her fire ball at the head.

He responds by knocking both Bubbles and Buttercup out with his own laser eyes.

"Bubbles! Buttercup!" Blossom exclaimed. She gives him a death glare and finishes him off with an electricity volt with a combination of her eyebeams. The head explodes and Bubbles and Buttercup start to get up. "It's all taken care of, girls. I defeated the head with my electricity volt."

"It's about time!" Buttercup and Bubbles shout. The trio were about to give each other a high five until...

"BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! You naive three little girls... my creation for Eyerok may have been destroyed, but..." -The ancient being starts to possess Mario's body- "I still have one last trick up my sleeve! You wouldn't hit a person you admire, would you?~" He cackles maniacally as he says this. "Come on, girls... let's get this over with, shall we?" The girls nervously stepped back as Mario's possessed body advanced slowly towards them.

"What... why would you-" Blossom started to say but was interrupted by Luigi's voice.

"You leave my brother alone!"

The three sisters turn around and gasp to see Luigi alert and determined to defeat the mummy.

"LUIGI?!" they exclaimed.

"How did you get out?" Bubbles questioned.

"Eh, it wasn't that hard. I just had to use my fire powers to burn the bandages out," Luigi explains.

"But you're okay!" She hugs Luigi tightly. He starts to hug her back and pats her head.

"Ha ha, yeah I'm fine. Now let's show that mummy what we can do huh?"

The girls nodded at the statement.

Bubbles and Luigi combine their electric attacks to stun the mummy while Buttercup and Blossom combine her laser eyes and Buttercup's blow ability to try and get him out of Mario's body. After a few minutes, the mummy finally decides to get out of Mario's body, with Mario feeling really weary. Bubbles then catches him as he starts to fall from exhaustion.

"Ughh... what happened...?" Mario asked. Bubbles explained the whole situation to Mario from start to finish: The bros getting kidnapped by the Boos, the girls defeating Eyerok from hands to statue head, and then Mario getting possessed by an ancient spirit. Mario seemed really surprised and started to whisper something in her ear. "Remind me never to get possessed again," he said.

Before Luigi and Blossom could do anything, the mummy king uses his glare to turn Buttercup into stone, just like Medusa. The pink clad had known something like this would happen so she packed some elixir before the heroes got to the desert. She proceeds to throw half of the potion towards Buttercup and she turns back to normal again.

"Oh my god, thank you so much!" Buttercup said.

"No problem Buttercup!" Blossom replied. "Now let's finish this thing off with a wrap you guys!"

"Yeah!" Luigi nods.

The three of them unwrap the mummy spirit with all their might while the mummy screams in agony.

"No... NO! I'll have my revenge one day! And you won't be able to stop me!" the mummy shouts.

"Yeah right! It's time for you to go back in TIME," Buttercup says, holding the coffin. Luigi and Blossom push the mummy down.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

And then they slam the coffin shut; it's all over... finally. The second blueprint appears in front of their eyes and Blossom grabs the blueprint and puts it in Mario's pocket. Two down, six more to go!

"You did it!" Mario says. "You guys defeated the mummy! Man, who knew that he'd possessed Eyerok?"

"Yeah... I'm so glad that's over with," Bubbles said.

The pyramid starts to rumble and looks about ready to fall apart.

"Let's get outta here! The pyramid's about to collapse!" Blossom shouts.

The group gets out of the pyramid as soon as they could and the pyramid starts to fall apart. They stare at it for a few seconds until...

"MARIO! Thank god you're okay! I almost thought you died!" Luigi starts crying and hugs Mario.

"There there, my bro. I'm here," Mario soothingly replies, hugging him back. "It's all over now."

"Aww, that's so cute!" Bubbles said.

"Yeah yeah, sorry to interrupt the sappy reunion, but isn't there somewhere we need to go? I'm about to die of heat stroke," Buttercup says.

"Oh yeah! That's right," Mario says. "As a matter a fact, I think a swim in the beach sounds about good."

"Truer words have never been spoken," Blossom

"Yeah, let's go," Luigi said.

They head towards the pipe that leads to the beach and go down the pipe. Let's hope this one will be less hot than before, Blossom thought.


A/N: And that's the end of the hot desert! Two levels down, six to go. Also, it would really help me if you reviewed my story so I know what to do for next time or for future stories. In the mean time, put on some goggles because we are goin to the beach, aka the third level! I hope you all liked it, and stay tuned for the next chapter ^^