When Blossom, Bubbles and Mario get to Luigi's dream, they look around and nothing out of the ordinary is happening... until some creepy organ music is heard and a bunch of boos were coming out of nowhere. Haunted screams, especially Luigi's screams, are also heard over the scary organ playing.
Both of the girls were really scared at the sight of the whole thing... considering it is Luigi's nightmare and all. Mario knew how they felt: he'd been kidnapped by ghosts and turned into a painting three times now and Luigi had to save him from King Boo.
"Alright, I know you girls are scared but everything's gonna be okay. We're just looking for Luigi and if either of you get really scared, you can just hang onto me, okay?" Mario said.
"O-okay," Bubbles said, already clutching Mario's arm.
As the trio walks around, the creepy organ music is still playing while desperate pleas are heard around the area. Especially one that sounds so familiar.
"Heeeeeeeeellllllllllllp meeeeeeeeeeeeee..." the frightened voice called out. "I've been traaaaaaaaapped..."
It sounded like Luigi's voice! He must be in trouble. The heroes walk closer to find the source of Luigi's voice, expecting to find him trapped in a painting and getting himself out with his Poltergust 5000, but he's not in said painting. Instead, we find him standing still and his back turned to us... was he okay?
"Luigi...?" Blossom floated towards Luigi and tapped him on the shoulder only to see him turn around and... HE'S A GHOST?!
"AHHHH THANK GOD YOU'RE HERE! ANTASMA TOOK MY SOUL AND NOW I CAN'T FIND MY BODY!" Luigi shouted.
The girls scream in fright while Luigi also screams. I'm just completely stunned on the sight of this. If Luigi had been turned into a ghost, then that must mean... Antasma literally must have scared him to death AND he has his body!
"OH NO! LUIGI'S DEAAAAAD!" Bubbles cried.
"Bubbles, it's okay! He's not dead!" Blossom reassured her. "He just... had his soul taken away from Antasma."
"Uh... yeah, he's fine! We just have to find his body," Mario added. "Speaking of which, Luigi, where is your body?"
"Oh. About that... I think Antasma escaped with it before I could even get to him. Since I had said soul taken away and all." Luigi shrugged.
Bubbles looked at him quizzically. Blossom gave him an unamused expression. Mario smacked his forehead. Is Luigi really that dumb?
The group looked around everywhere for Luigi's body for the longest time but with no success. They even had to go through a maze with a lot of boos around: It was not very pretty... After a while, Mario was about to tell the girls and Luigi that they needed to give up, until-
"Hey, do you guys hear that?" Bubbles asked. The others leaned forward.
"It kinda sounds like..." Luigi began. "Organ playing!"
"I think we might be getting closer to Antasma! If we hurry now, we'll make sure we get Luigi's body back," Mario explained.
As the four of the heroes got towards to the source of the noise, the music got louder and louder until they found Antasma, sitting at the edge of his seat playing the organ as loud as he could.
"NOT SO FAST ANTASMA!" the heroes shouted, causing the bat king to stop his playing.
"Huh? Aw damn it, you interrupted my master playing at Bach's Toccata and Fugue!" Antasma exclaimed.
"No one cares about your organ playing skills," Mario said rolling his eyes. "Now TELL US WHERE YOU PUT LUIGI'S BODY!"
"Never! I will not tell you that I hid Luigi's body secretly behind the organ!"
The heroes took a look behind the organ and sure enough, Luigi's corpse is directly behind the back of the organ.
"Uh, we can see it you dum dum," Bubbles said.
"Wait what? Uh..." He opened the lid and tried to stuff Luigi's corpse into the organ but no avail. "You didn't see anything! Hahahaha..."
Mario gave him an unamused look. Does he seriously think he can get away with all of this?
"Let's get him!" Luigi shouted.
Blossom, Bubbles and the red plumber nodded at the statement. Antasma's eyes widened as they all charged at him with their special attacks. Bubbles had stunned him with her super sonic scream, Blossom used her laser eyes aimed at Antasma's stomach and Luigi and Mario opened the lid of the organ and took Luigi's corpse out and laid it gently on the ground.
As Luigi's soul goes back to his body, he comes back to life, sits up and gasps for air. Finally he starts touching his face, grabs his brother's shoulders and starts asking, "Am... am I brought back to life?"
"Yes," Mario said, grabbing his arm. "Yes you are."
Luigi sighed of relief.
Some time later, Bubbles and Blossom finished beating Antasma to a pulp and the bat king fell to the ground. After a moment he got up and retreated someplace else.
"OH YOU ARE SO DEAD, YOU STUPID HEROES!" he yelled.
Blossom let out a small sigh. This bat king will never give up, will he...? Blossom thought.
"Hey girls, look who's brought back to life!" Mario said. The girls turned around and noticed Luigi got his soul back! They both heaved a sigh of relief. He waved at them sheepishly while Bubbles squealed of delight.
"Luigi!" Bubbles exclaimed, rushing over to hug him tightly. "Thank goodness you're back!"
"Haha, I'm glad to be back too," Luigi said, hugging her back. He let her go after a few seconds.
"Now the only person left to save is Buttercup."
"From all the nightmares that we've faced, I think we've totally got this," Mario said.
"Yeah... yeah, we do, don't we?" Blossom added.
"Well, wherever she is, we gotta go save her. Let's go," Luigi said.
The heroes went down to the very last warp pipe, hoping to save Buttercup from her darkest fears. They wandered around the dark place and saw a bunch of gigantic spiders crawling all over. One tiny spider even got on Bubbles' head and she let out a yelp and smacked it off of her head.
It kept going on for a while until Buttercup's screams of agony and Him's evil cackling were heard. Part of the conversation the heroes could hear was Buttercup denying that she was scared and Him taunting her about the spiders.
"Let's get her out of here," Mario said.
The others nodded and they ran through, killing all of the spiders that get in their way until they noticed Buttercup being grabbed by Him, who has now seemingly transformed into a gigantic spider. He turned to look at them with an evil grin.
"Oh look, the whole gang is here!" Him exclaimed. "Well, minus Buttercup here since I will be killing her scaredy cat self soon.~"
"I'm NOT afraid of anything!" Buttercup shouted, clearly flustered and still denying her fears.
"Oh but on the contrary!" He dropped her on the ground. "You've been afraid of spiders and conquered it last time with your sisters... so why not now?" As he cackles, Buttercup has a look of complete terror, realizing that Him may be right.
"Wow... I've never seen you that afraid before, Buttercup," Mario said.
"He's... he's right! What if the last time I faced my fears, I never really conquered them? And those spiders are all still in my head? Am I going insane?!" the poor girl questioned. All of a sudden, Mario had an idea.
"So... what you're telling me is that there were spiders everywhere," he begins and points to the spider formed Him who waves tauntingly. "and you can't fight this little thing?"
"LITTLE?! That guy's huge!" Buttercup exclaimed. Him puts a claw on his spider chest and puts on an offended look.
"Oh? Are you scared?"
"What- no! I'm not scared, I just-"
"Your face says otherwise."
"I am not!"
"I know you are."
Bubbles, Luigi and Blossom looked back and forth between the two of them bickering. Bubbles had a concerned face while Luigi and Blossom were amused.
"OH REALLY? You want me to prove to ya that I'm NOT?" Buttercup said.
"Yeah, I'd like to see you try," Mario challenged as he shrugs. "Come at me. I dare you."
"Oh yeah?!"
"Yeah!"
Buttercup let out a war cry as she charged towards Him. Mario threw a mega mushroom towards her way and when it hits the green clad, she grows gigantic. More gigantic than Him even. As she picked the devil spider up, Him looked at her with fear in his eyes, not knowing what she was going to do to him. He shook his head vigorously, practically begging her not to do what he thought she was going to do.
Deciding that she had enough, Buttercup threw him towards the ground as hard as she could and stomped on him as flat as a pancake. The stomping went on for two minutes and as she shrunk, she screamed, "I AM NOT SCARED!"
"Okay okay! You proved your point! Just stay away from me!" Him exclaimed as he retreated one last time.
The heroes sighed of relief, glad that their nightmares were finally over... the whole ordeal was a complete nightmare. Literally. Buttercup dropped to her knees and cried tears of relief as she hugged Blossom tightly. "It's over... it's FINALLY over!" she cried.
"Yes it is, Buttercup..." Blossom said as she hugged back. "We won't have to see our... horrible nightmares again."
"At least we finally did it," Mario added, "and we faced our fears together."
The moment was interrupted by Antasma's cackling from thin air; startled, Buttercup and Blossom broke out of their embrace. What was Antasma up to this time...?
"You stupid bat king! YOU'RE responsible for this?!" Buttercup asked. "No, let me guess. You brainwashed Blossom, tortured Mario with a stylus, attempted to choke Bubbles, took Luigi's soul and tried to have Him scare me with a SPIDER?"
"Oh you couldn't be more right, Buttercup!" Antasma exclaimed as he teleported in front of them.
"You damn bastard... you WON'T get away with this!" Mario shouted.
"Oh won't I? We'll see about that... after I sing you a little song." Antasma snapped his fingers and in just seconds, the heroes fell down to an unknown place. Him could be heard saying his goodbyes in a taunting manner.
They landed on the ground with a crash... bones started to fly everywhere and scatter to the ground. With a groan, the group got up to examine the place. After further examination, they noticed they landed in a graveyard.
The graveyard is filled with a bunch of bones and tombstones everywhere- something you would see from a typical graveyard. The wind gives out a chilling breeze among the dark atmosphere and it gave Bubbles a chill down her spine. Suddenly a skull landed on Luigi's head: He let out a yelp but screamed louder as Bubbles pointed out that a skull was on his head.
He ran around for a minute until he bumped into Buttercup who screamed and pushed the skull out of his head as it shatters down to the floor: Luigi lets out a sigh of relief.
"Well well, Mario Bros... and Powerpuff Girls... are you ready?" A familiar voice startles us and Antasma appears again.
"If it's anything from a musical, I will literally kill you," Buttercup said in a calm voice.
"Oh it's something much more than that! TAKE IT AWAY BOYS!" He snapped his fingers and suddenly the skeletons came to life and danced as the music plays. And then they started singing their song...
"A is for Antasma, the greatest bat king of all time
B is for the triplets, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, who stop crime!
C is for curse, for which the mummy had
D is for death, which you will be facing soon, might I add
E is for Eyerok, Mario's old foe!
F is for Fuzzy, who exlaims "GET OFFA MY PROPERTAH!"
G is for giant, humiliation of a spoiled brat named Morbucks
H is for humiliation, which deserves a yuk yuk yuk!"
The skeletons surrounded the heroes in a circle. Mario held his arm out to block the girls and Luigi from harm.
"Gaaaame over, gaaaame over,
everyone's games end eventually
Gaaaame over, gaaaame over,
let's count all the ways from A to Z!
I is for ignorance, for which it is bliss
J is for Jigglypuff, whose song is hit and miss
K is for kill, for which Mario was almost a victim of
L is for Luigi, Mario's younger brother whom is almost never loved
M is for Mario, hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, loved by all!
N is for nightmare, which Antasma had a ball
O is for Octi, Bubbles' precious stuffed doll
P is for Princess Peach, who desperately needs some saving!
Gaaaame over, gaaaame over,
everyone's games end eventually
Gaaaame over, gaaaame over,
let's count all the ways from A to Z!
Q is for quality, which it is not poor
R is for rage, watch out for Bubbles Kong!
S is for sand, which almost consumed Luigi, that's just wrong
T is for Tanooki, Mario and Luigi's power suits
U is for underwater, where Bubbles got kidnapped, what a hoot
V is for villains, koopas, goombas and criminals everywhere
W is for Water Fortress, a place Princess' daddy bought
X is for X... the Chemical which made the Powerpuff Girls
Y is for Yoshi, Mario's right hand man!
Z is for Zelda, the main princess in The Legend of Zelda!
Gaaaame over, gaaaame over,
everyone has their own A B C's
Gaaaame over, gaaaame over,
next time, won't you sing with me?"
The song ends with the skeleton walking up to the elevator, bowing to the group and saying, "Thank you, thank you very much." Then he gets in the elevator and it goes up. The other skeletons disperse to their designated places.
"...what the heck was that about?" Buttercup asked in confusion. Mario shrugged with a confused look himself.
"Do it again! I loved it!" Bubbles squealed.
All of a sudden, Antasma and Him appeared once more.
"Oh, what a delightful song!" Him said in his usual eerie high pitched voice. "What I would give to make this into an album. I don't really get the Legend of Zelda bit though."
"Uh... I visited Hyrule?" Antasma replied sheepishly. "Bah, no matter. Him, you were useless."
"WHAT?! HOW DARE-"
"So we should fuse! How bout it? You will finally be useful then."
"...okay, whatever."
Him and Antasma touched hands, and a white light surrounded them for a moment. Suddenly... the form gave away a purple crab like demon with Him's legs, Antasma's eyes and grin with a cape around his neck. The claws are even sharper than normal.
"Now you vill FACE the almighty... HIMTASMA!" a distorted voice combined with Him and Antasma's voices shouted.
First Himtasma summoned multiple demon spiders all at once and they scattered everywhere they go. Buttercup, being afraid of spiders, screams in fear and shoots her eye beams at the said spiders. Mario swung his hammer at the spiders which formed a giant fist, preparing to charge but got hit by the hammer. Bubbles swung Luigi around three times and threw him towards the spiders, to which he performed a somersault and successfully stomped on the demon spiders. Blossom used her electricity volt to stun some of the spiders.
Himtasma fought back firing mutliple lasers all at once and the pink clad blew ice breath at the lasers. The others threw them at Himtasma and he dodged all except one. He got back up and let out a loud batty screech, sending out shock waves. It was so loud that the heroes plugged their ears because the screech sounded like finger nails on a chalk board. When he was done, he released an energy ball and threw it at the heroes, knocking them out. Buttercup coughed up blood while the others got up with a groan. "Is that all you got, stupid Himtasma?!" Buttercup shouted.
The demon only laughed. "You may have dodged our attacks for now..." he begins, "but here's a little song that might seem familiar to the MARIO BROS! All who listen to this shall sleep!"
Just then, Himtasma grabbed a microphone and Mario and Luigi looked utterly terrified at the sight of it. The girls only looked confused, wondering what Himtasma was going to do with it.
"Is he going to...?" Luigi said.
"I think he's gonna sing to the sound of the dream beats!" Mario exclaimed.
"Wait a minute, dream beats? They don't really sound that harmless," Buttercup claims.
"Yeah but these dream beats are so powerful that it puts you in a deep sleep. You can even hear it from a mile away and still sleep," Mario explained.
"And that's why... we'd suggest you plug your ears before it's TOO LATE!" Luigi exclaimed as he puts earplugs on.
"OH my god why didn't I think of earplugs before?!" Mario pulls earplugs out of his pockets and gives them to the girls. "Quick, put these on before it's too late!"
"Wait, we don't have any-!" Buttercup is interrupted by Mario.
"JUST TRUST ME ON THIS ONE!"
Everyone put the earplugs in their ears just in time for Himtasma to sing to the beat of his so called "dream beats". The music sounded so exotic, like something you would hear in Egypt. But at the same time it sounded so soothing. Blossom was just about to doze off until-
"Stay awake!" Mario exclaimed, and she shook her head vigorously to stay awake. What was she doing? This was not the time to be sleeping! As the pink clad looked around at her surroundings, everyone else seemed to be staying awake thanks to the earplugs. In the meantime, Bubbles let out her super sonic scream to stop Himtasma from singing his boring song.
Himtasma covered his ears and screamed in agony, practically begging her to stop. She stopped screaming and the heroes took their earplugs out. All of the sudden Him and Antasma defused into their normal forms. Him looked at Antasma in a confused manner.
"What the... Why'd you defuse us?!" Him asked.
"You are SO useless Him! I mean, come on; trying to sing them to sleep?!" Antasma said. "I tried putting EVERYONE to sleep vith the dreambeats but Mario was the only one to resist it! Starlow and Dreambert are spirits so they weren't put to sleep either!"
"Well what do you want me to-"
"And here's another thing... I've been using you the WHOLE TIME."
As Antasma said those words, Him was speechless for a moment. He stuttered and the only words he could get out were, "I-I-... WHAT?!"
"I vas using you to get revenge not only on Bowser for overthrowing me," Antasma explains, "but on the Mario Bros too. And I turned your lair into MY lair. It vas so boring I decided to spice it up."
"HOW DARE YOU?! When I get my hands on you, Antasma, I-"
"Oh there's no need for that! I vas hired by Mojo and Bowser to gather all of Mario Bros and the Powerpuff Girls' villains together for a... team up. Ve came up with a plan during our meeting: ve vould scatter all of the blueprints of shutting down the force field of Bowser and Mojo's location in ALL of eight worlds. And most of it was my idea! I ripped it up so I can interfere with Bowser's plans."
The Mario Bros and Powerpuffs looked at him in a stupefied manner. That was Antasma's plan all along?
"Wait a minute... YOU'VE been scattering the pieces of the blueprints this whole time?!" Mario asked.
"That's correct," Antasma confirmed.
"And you've been using Him for all this?" Luigi said.
"CORRECT! Now Him... let me show you how it's done." Antasma pulled Him in and a white light shines in front of their eyes once more. It was so bright that the heroes turned away from the light. When they looked back up, they had fused once again, except that Antasma had full control of Him and his fusion looked the same except more demon like and taller than before.
"Now then... how about ve do the TANGO, little heros?~" the reformed Himtasma said as he cackled.
"The tango?!" Buttercup exclaimed.
"That's right! I vill end you all for this."
"Not unless we stop you first!" Blossom said. "You're the one that will pay for everything you've done."
Himtasma growled at the heroes and fired the bullets with Him's face on them from his hands. They deflected them by hitting them back towards him and the bullets exploded on him. The demon used his magic to teleport a bonzai bill and throw it towards the heroes. Buttercup unleashed a tornado and flipped it back towards Himtasma, but he dodged it and the said bonzai bill exploded on the wall. It keeps going on until...
"HA! Did you really think that vould vork?!" Himtasma said. "Your mere deflections von't vork against me! Now vould be the perfect time to use my secret weapon, I suppose."
"Oh really? And what would that 'secret weapon' be?" Mario asked.
"The almighty DREAM STONE!" Himtasma held up a rainbow colored stone for what it looks like the dream stone.
"What's the dream stone?" Blossom asked.
"The dream stone is a special stone that grants wishes to anyone who possesses this stone," Mario replied. "From the looks of it, Himtasma's probably gonna wish to teleport us to a portal."
"And that's exactly vhat I'm going to do!" Himtasma exclaimed. "Dream stone? Transport us to the Dream world."
As commanded, the dream stone took everyone to the dream world. It was a normal dream world except everything was really dark. It was merely designed to look like Bowser's castle and there was Himtasma, standing in front of the heroes with a smug look. He let out an evil laugh, knowing well enough the heroes were doomed.
"Just accept your fate you stupid, vorthless heroes. You're finished," Himtasma claimed. He transformed into something much more sinister: his legs thickened and he now had better physique than ever before. His grin was more sinister than it previously was. It had sharp fangs as well.
He fired another laser at them but the heroes dodge it easily. However, he summoned clones of them as purple gas surrounded the clones. Each of them charged after the heroes and used the attacks they used to attack enemies, but everyone except Bubbles stepped out of the way to avoid getting hit. Blossom used her laser eyes at her clone but they just reshuffled themselves.
"What kind of madness is this?!" Buttercup questioned.
"These are the dreamy clones Antasma normally summons," Luigi explained. "Since there are more than one... this will be a challenge."
"Well, let's just attack the weaker ones and then kill off the actual dreamy clones!" Mario said.
Mario used his hammer to swing at the clones, Luigi used his super jump punch at his clones, Bubbles used her thunderclap, Buttercup threw a fire ball, and Blossom used her wind attack to attack the enemies. The Bubbles clone used her super sonic scream to stun the heroes, and the Mario clone uses his Mario Finale where he unleashed a two streamed blast of fire that's enough to burn anything off. The Mario Bros dodged but the girls weren't so lucky. They were burnt from top to bottom and they shrugged off all the ashes.
The heroes did all they could to distract the clones from using their powers to trying to make them look the other direction and attack them behind. This kept going on for a while until they grew tired of it and Buttercup and Blossom turned Bubbles into a ball and threw her towards the clones. It succeeded as all of the other clones were defeated and disappeared. Infuriated, Himtasma stands right in front of them.
"You guys think you're SO clever, defeating all of my Dreamy clones," Himtasma said. "Well let's see how you can handle THIS! The Dark Stone. This is fueled by your own nightmares and traps the souls in said stone."
"Oh no... I got a bad feeling about this," Buttercup said.
"Dark stone! I wish to send in a spider with ALL of our little heroes' fears."
As if on cue, a giant spider with a clown's head and three of its legs representing all of the heroes' fears walked right in. Luigi screamed in fright and Bubbles just looked utterly terrified at the sight of it.
"Hey, this is just our own fears combined into one spider!" Buttercup exclaimed. "Let's kill it!"
Everyone else nodded in approval. All together, they combined our fire, ice and electric powers to defeat the said spider, and when Himtasma got in the way he was blasted back thanks to the mega powered laser. The heroes got out of the dream portal and back to Him's lair, and Him and Antasma defuse. Him clearly looked like he wanted to give up.
"No please! Have mercy!" Him begged as he shakes.
"MERCY IS FOR THE WEAK!" Buttercup shouted as she kicked Him off of the cliff. The last they saw of the crab demon was him screaming of terror. As he fell into the endless abyss, Luigi yelled, "I wanna know your real name!" And Antasma watched Him fall to his death with an unfazed look before looking back at the heroes.
"SKREEEK! You stupid vorthless heroes may have von this round... but the next time I see you... ESPECIALLY you, Mario Brothers, I VILL get you next time!" Antasma exclaimed as he disappeared into thin air with a maniacal cackle.
Everyone watched in silence. The deafening silence went on for a few moments until Mario said something. "...Oh my god. It's finally over."
"Thank god..." Buttercup sighed as she tried to keep her balance. "I am so, so tired."
"I think we all are," Blossom replied. During their conversation, Bubbles mentioned that she found another blueprint to shut down Mojo Jojo's force field down at the abyss and handed it over to Mario, who takes it and puts it in his pocket.
"Thank god! Now that just makes two more to go," Mario said. "Let's go to the warp pipe. Hopefully nothing scary will happen there."
"So... we're not gonna find out what Him's real name is?" Luigi asked. Mario and the girls let out a small groan.
"No Luigi, probably not."
Buttercup rolled her eyes and Blossom only shook her head while Bubbles giggled. The heroes went into the warp pipe, finally rid of this nightmare world of their minds once and for all.
A/N: Phew! That one was a doozy to write. After fighting their own nightmares for quite a long time, the heroes faced Antasma and Him together, with bravery in their hearts. Where do you think the warp pipe will lead to next? In the beach? In the snowy hills? Find out more in the next chapter! And don't forget to read and rate XD *rolls away*
