Scene 3: The Mausoleum
Scene 3, Chapter 13 –
Possessed by Evil
"Ah, I've finally found you."
"Incredible. You're rebuilt! So is
this how you look like?"
"Yes, in a way. I must commend your
scientists on their knowledge. Of course, theirs isn't as vast as mine…"
"Of course. And so, I must return
back to the city. Damn that Anti Guy!"
"You better not. Dennis Domino
spread the news that you're dead, and he even sent his Snifit Elite to hunt you
down and kill you."
"Why that treacherous…"
"Save it. I have a job for you. Is
there someway you can get that scientist's lab portable?"
"Of course. AAI employees are
probably aware that I live, but they can't let the public know because Dennis
would kill them. I'll tell him to pack
it up and bring it to…?"
"The Mausoleum."
Anti Guy's dreams were weird, yet they seemed to be more symbolic than nonsense. But what should he do now? He still didn't feel like going to that void, especially now that he knew that Domino had a hold of it. The only place that seemed safe was the Mausoleum. Who knew what he could find there. Maybe he could finish Snifitson too.
His mind was made up. With a lack of a true purpose he set out on a journey to the Black Forest. "North, here I come!" said Anti Guy. Feeling refreshed, Anti Guy sprinted northeast to Shy Town. Going through Shy Town was a lot safer than Snifit City. As Anti Guy reached Shy Town, he saw a shadowy figure in the distance. When he went closer, he saw that it was the old Shy Guy that he stole the Slingshot from. Anti Guy covered up the Slingshot.
The old Shy Guy sure was furious. "Anti Guy, give me back the Slingshot, you thief!" he commanded in a loud and deep voice.
"What slingshot?"
"Don't play games with me! It's mine! It's mine I tell you!" he roared.
Anti Guy decided to be smart. "Technically nothing can be yours forever except for yourself. Any items of yours can be stolen. Besides, this Slingshot has done me so good so far. I even chased Snifitson out of Snifit City!"
The old Shy Guy started breathing very rapidly. Anti Guy could see a dark aura around him. What the heck was going on? Suddenly the old Shy Guy went into convulsions. Tentacles bursted out of his body! His mask turned twisted and deformed.
Anti Guy screamed, "What is wrong with you!?"
"THE SLINGSHOT! I WANT IT! MINE!" he roared loudly. His voice was twisted and warped.
The tentacles grabbed Anti Guy all over and dragged him in. Anti Guy quickly pulled out the Slingshot and fired at the freak. They had no effect! As Anti Guy was pulled in closer, the freak was mumbling, "It was mine… I found it… Long time ago… When I was young… Indestructible… Power… Overwhelming…" Anti Guy had no other option; he whacked the freak with the Slingshot's body. Suddenly, the freak screamed loudly and vaporized.
Anti Guy shivered. "That was too strange. Too evil…" He stared at his Slingshot. Was there more to it than the eye could see? He dashed northward, but he couldn't help thinking of that old Shy Guy he killed.
Scene 3, Chapter 14 – The
Black Forest
"Okay. Snifinstein is on his way.
Now what do we do?"
"We go to the Mausoleum."
There it was. The great Black Forest stood before Anti Guy. At the end of it was the Mausoleum. Now all he needed to do was get through the forest.
As soon as Anti Guy marched in the forest, everything became pitch black. The trees blocked out all sunlight possible. "Oh great, now what do I do?" muttered Anti Guy.
A light glowed deep in the forest. It moved too. Anti Guy could tell that it was heading towards the Mausoleum. He crept quietly towards the source of the light. As he got closer, Anti Guy saw Snifitson! Upon closer inspection, he saw there were two more people with him. There was a Snifit he could identify as an AAI scientist. There was also a Toad who he could identify as… Dr. Schizo! Anti Guy was submerged in a sea of questions. What was he doing here? How was he still alive? It all became clear to him. Since Dr. Schizo came from the Mushroom Kingdom, he told Snifitson to take it over. Before Snifitson could wire the money, Dennis Domino took over and wired it. The good thing was that Dennis didn't even know the reason for it.
Anti Guy crept behind the three and followed them. Shy Guys were very quiet anyway. Also, Snifitson only flashed his flashlight forward, left, or right. "I know this place. I've been here before. All we have to do is go straight from here, I believe," said Snifitson.
They went walking on for a while until some Swoopulas attacked. Dr. Schizo and Snifitson shot them down with their guns. That wasn't the end of it though. A squad of Dry Bones attacked accompanied with some Bony Beetles on the left.
"Will these things stop bothering us?" muttered Dr. Schizo. They shot them down with their guns easily. All the other aggressive creatures (there were a lot) backed off. Suddenly, Anti Guy screamed loudly.
Snifitson, Dr. Schizo, and Snifinstein turned around. Anti Guy covered his mouth. What possessed him to do that? He had absolutely no intention of making any noise, yet it just came like that! With his cover blown, Anti Guy dashed through the forest straight the Mausoleum.
"Anti Guy!" hissed Dr. Schizo.
"I wanna kill that loser!" yelled Snifitson.
They chased after Anti Guy, but not nearly as fast. Eventually, Anti Guy ran out of the forest and came to the huge Mausoleum. It was even taller than the AAI Tower! All of a sudden, the door slowly opened. "Creepy…" said Anti Guy. He crept in.
Scene 3, Chapter 15 –
Mausoleum Mystery
"Damn. Anti Guy is nowhere in
sight."
"That's none of our concern right
now. We have to go to the top of the tower now."
"Why the top of the tower?"
"That's where the most recent deaths are."
So this was the Mausoleum. It was very creepy and dark. It seemed as though a strange evil aura penetrated it. The smell of death was in the air. Anti Guy didn't like it at all. But adventure was adventure. He was going deep down in the Mausoleum. He had two reasons. One was to see what the ancient dead was like. The other was to see if he could get to the core. They didn't really serve much of a purpose, however.
Anti Guy went into the stairwell and grabbed onto the rails and flipped between them, going down a dozen stairs at a time. He had fun. After all, it was dangerous. Danger was fun. He just made sure not to break the ancient rails. After all, the stairwell was a bottomless pit. Or was it?
Soon, he found he was being hit by some bones! He looked up and saw a troop of Dry Bones attacking him. In fact, there were hundreds of undead creatures attacking him! On the next floor, he swung to the stairs. As soon as he landed, a dozen Dry Bones and a dozen Bony Beetles approached him. Anti Guy screamed a scream that could wake the dead. And it did.
"Leave this place at once, Shy Guy," they said.
Anti Guy laughed and said, "No one commands the great Anti Guy!"
Two Bony Beetles, who took offense to that, went in their shells, stuck out their spikes, and charged at Anti Guy. Anti Guy kicked one of them. It flew up and landed on the Dry Bones. The other one, he kicked into the stairs. Some other Bony Beetles attacked the same way. Anti Guy fought them off, but he couldn't hold out forever. Soon, more undead creatures started attacking. The old ones he fought came back to attack him again as well. They just wouldn't stay dead!
Running out of options, Anti Guy pulled out the Slingshot. He fired at a group of Dry Bones and Bony Beetles. The shot sliced through all of them and they fell down, eternally dead. The others closed in. Anti Guy fired at all of them, making them rest in peace forever.
"Hisss! That sssslingshot! It's too powerful! Fall back! Hiss!" said some of the undead. Anti Guy shot down a couple more to scare them off for centuries to come. They ran away and left Anti Guy alone. Suddenly, Anti Guy felt compelled to enter the room next to him. For some reason, something told him that this was the core.
He soon came to a gigantic tomb. A weird glow came out from it. Anti Guy walked closer and inspected it. Ancient symbols were written all across it. Of course, Anti Guy didn't know what they meant.
Suddenly, Anti Guy began chanting in a low voice:
Awaken
from your eternal slumber,
Once
again, you shall pillage and plunder.
One
who is full of evilness and corruption!
Void
of virtue and lack of kindness and compassion!
Born
of darkness, filled with hate,
Curse
the world for making you late!
Open
up these gates to your cage,
And
unleash your eternal rage!
Remember
the ancient days of yore,
Inflicting
endless pain, blood, and gore!
Plague
the world as its new nemesis
Upon
them, unleash a dark genesis!
Peace
and prosperity has been done,
It
is time for the Dark Destroyers to come!
Now,
open up these gates to your cage,
And unleash your eternal rage!
Anti Guy stopped. A keyhole appeared in front of the tomb. He screamed in a high-pitched Shy Guy scream. What did he do? Why did he do it? He began to run in circles and scream. After running a few laps, he stopped. He took out the Slingshot. Jagged spikes began to appear on the bottom. He inserted it into the keyhole. The whole entire tomb opened up!
Anti Guy took control of himself and screamed again. This wasn't fun. This wasn't dangerous. Wait, it was dangerous, but not fun! There, in the middle of the huge room, a huge empty void. In it, a dark black star with red eyes. It turned around and glared at Anti Guy. Swirls of dark matter swirled around it. Anti Guy yanked the Slingshot out of the keyhole and screamed. The dark star let out a bloodcurdling scream and flew out the room. Out of the Mausoleum, people could see a dark and evil entity leave the Mausoleum.
Back in the Mausoleum, everything was quiet. Anti Guy sat down and shuddered. What had he done? Suddenly, he was punched directly in the mask.
Scene 3, Chapter 16 – Angry
Ally
"Finally, after going up all
those floors, we are finally here."
"Now what are we looking for?"
"Watch and learn. Ah ha, there it
is. Snifenstein, prepare your lab."
Anti Guy slid across the floor. "Oww…" he moaned. The assailant charged forward and uppercutted Anti Guy straight into an ancient wall. Anti Guy snapped back to consciousness. He saw his attacker was a teal Shy Guy. The description was enough.
"Slasher, is it? What are you doing?" Anti Guy moaned.
Slasher fumed with anger and screamed, "You jerk! How do you know my name, bastard? Curse you! I saw what you did! Damnit! I mean what the hell do you think you're doing!? Do you think you're a hotshot now? 'Ooh, look! I'm Anti Guy the necromancer! I'm all cool!' You dork! You're possessed! I'll make sure that by the end of today, you'll be exorcized… by me! Stand up!"
Anti Guy stood up wearily. Slasher charged again and kicked him straight in the stomach. Anti Guy lurched over in pain. He felt like throwing up. The Slingshot came out of his grasp and fell to the ground. Slasher charged again. As he dived to attack Anti Guy, Anti Guy kicked him in the mask straight up in the air. Slasher went flying into the air. As he fell back down, he landed with his hands, flipped, and smashed into Anti Guy.
Anti Guy was thrown backwards into the black star's tomb. He soon realized that that was the core. All of a sudden, Anti Guy was being thrown around! The gravity was pulling him from one part of the world to another, and poor Anti Guy was being thrust around in midair!
Slasher jumped in. He threw a punch at Anti Guy. Anti Guy caught his fist, and sent one back straight at Slasher. Then he followed that with a kick. Slasher groaned and blocked another punch. As they were being pulled down quickly to the core again, Slasher shoved Anti Guy. Anti Guy zoomed pass the core and slammed into a wall. Slasher charged, but the gravity pulled Anti Guy's body back into Slasher, slamming him out of the chamber. Anti Guy pushed himself a little extra to jump out. They both landed near the Slingshot.
The two Shy Guys faced each other again on the floor. Slasher lunged forward and punched Anti Guy in the mask. Anti Guy was powerless to fight back. Slasher yelled, "This is for Hey-Ho!"
Anti Guy backed up. Slasher punched again. "This is for releasing that beast!"
Anti Guy clumsily fell back. Slasher ran in and punched Anti Guy again. "This is for being possessed!"
Anti Guy moaned. He had taken enough abuse. "And this is for—" Anti Guy punched Slasher at the same time Slasher punched him. They both collapsed on the floor.
Slasher's hand rose to fight, but then it dropped again.
An undead creature walked right between them. It was all bones, yet it had a blue robe and a blue hat on. Slasher and Anti Guy could tell that that was a Magikoopa. They couldn't fight, because they were too weak.
"Heh heh heh, what do we have here?" said the Magikoopa.
Anti Guy got out a laugh. "Just a minor argument." He coughed.
The Magikoopa laughed. "I see. Slasher you are. And Anti Guy, is it?"
"How do you know our names?" asked Anti Guy.
"I know many things. I have connections. We undead have our ways, you know. I see you may be wondering who I am. I am Koopha. I lived many many years ago… You can say several centuries ago."
Anti Guy and Slasher gasped.
He continued. "I know many more things than both of you know together. I can say one thing though, the world is doomed unless something is done. There's no time for me to talk. You two wasted enough time over a petty fight. Like it or not, you have to work together. Anti Guy may not be another Hey-Ho, but he has a power that Specter—Dark Mario, if you will—could even be afraid of. So I turn my attention to the top floor of the Mausoleum. Go there and try the save the world from further doom. And Anti Guy, I'll need to talk to you later. I have news that would be for your own good."
Anti Guy got enough energy and said, "Why should we trust you? You're a Magikoopa."
"We Magikoopas of long ago have a better reputation than Bowser's foul minions. Don't judge a person by his race, Shy Guy."
Anti Guy shut up.
Slasher spoke up and said, "When does he have to speak to you? I want to listen too!"
Koopha laughed. "Whenever you get the chance. Now go and don't waste time." Koopha raised his ancient wand with his bony hand and regenerated their strength. "There will be no more fighting between you too from now on! You worked together once, and you can do it again!"
Anti Guy was confused, but Slasher remembered the battle at the CoI Citadel. "Fine," he said. He held out his hand to Anti Guy, and Anti Guy shook it. Then he said, "But I'll make sure, you possessed loser, that no more trouble will come out from you."
Anti Guy laughed and said, "You can count on it." He walked over to the Slingshot, picked it up, and said, "Well, let's go! To the top floor!"
Scene 3, Chapter 17 –
Slasher's Victims
"Okay, the lab is being set up. This may take
awhile."
"That's fine with me. I just can't seem to get this coffin open! Argh! This is utterly futile!"
Anti Guy left the floor happily with Slasher following. They jogged up the stairs as they heard Koopha say in the background, "Don't forget to meet later…"
Anti Guy and Slasher jogged up a couple floors. Some Dry Bones were in their way, but they ran away because of the Slingshot. It was going to be a long way up, so Anti Guy decided to make some conversation. "So what are you doing here? Are you dead?"
"Idiot," Slasher said. "I'm not dead! I can never be! I'm an android—I am mechanical."
"Oh. Well, I forgot. What about Hey-Ho?"
"He's organic. That's what happened when we got to the Wishing Star's place." Slasher wasn't very conversational.
"I don't get it though. Why couldn't Dark Mario use the Star Rod for his wish instead?"
"The Star Rod can't grant bad wishes. The Wishing Star can."
"But why? Aren't the Stars good?"
"Shut up. I'm not a history
major, Anti Guy. And you're not a scholar." That put an end to that
conversation. It seemed Slasher was still bitter after that fight.
Anti Guy was tired of jogging up the stairs. So was Slasher, but he didn't say anything. Anti Guy put an end to it. "Last one to the top is a rotten Spiny egg!" He started to rail-spin again.
"Loser," muttered Slasher. From the top of his head came a set of copter blades. He started flying up. It was quite a comical sight: Anti Guy spinning on the rails, flying upwards a couple stairs at a time, and Slasher flying straight up.
Eventually, they passed the lobby level and went a dozen more floors up. They saw a whole army of undead marching down the stairs. Slasher stopped. He recognized them, unfortunately.
Anti Guy took out the Slingshot. "I guess these guys didn't see my little show near the core of the world."
"Stop," said Slasher. He flew up more, then shoved Anti Guy off a rail and down to the ground. Anti Guy said nothing; he didn't want to start another fight with that stubborn android.
The army of undead stopped. They were mostly Toads, but there were some Yoshis, Koopas, Ravens, and Shy Guys. A Toad stepped out and said, "Is it him?"
The others echoed his words.
"It's me," said Slasher. He landed on the stairs next to Anti Guy.
"Look at what you did if you can't count," hissed the Toad. He pointed around him. Over 300 undead victims were crowded around the stairs, pointing at Slasher and hissing. Anti Guy clutched the Slingshot and trembled.
"So this is the number, Slasher?" said Anti Guy, trembling.
"That's about it."
"That's genocide!" said Anti Guy. He put away the Slingshot, but was still trembling.
"All right. Look, I'm sorry," said Slasher.
"That's too late!" roared the Toad. The other victims of Slasher's genocide echoed that.
"I had no control back then," growled Slasher.
"You were controlled!"
"Damn it! None of the deaths were intentional!"
"You found pleasure in it!" All of a sudden, they started jumping from the rails and dived at Slasher and Anti Guy. Very soon, all three hundred of them were off the rails and diving at the two. Anti Guy didn't care if Slasher wanted to handle this alone. He fired at a whole group of them with the Slingshot. They all lost their souls and fell down the bottomless stairwell. Slasher fought off some others with his blades and chopped them up. They fell down the stairwell, souls intact.
"There's too many!" said Slasher. "Let's try to get the heck out of here!"
Anti Guy nodded, and they ran up the staircases, smashing through all of Slasher's victims as if they weren't there. Once they were above the mob, they started rail-spinning/flying up floors again. The mob chased them on their slow feet. After going a couple hundred floors, Anti Guy got really tired. Slasher noticed it, and he told Anti Guy to stop. The top floor was only a few floors above them anyway.
They both landed back on the staircase. They faced the entrance to a fairly recent floor. It was lower than Slasher's victims' level though. They walked in, but something told them that they were not alone…
Scene 3, Chapter 18 – Kamek
Anti Guy and Slasher were in a floor with hundreds of coffins. They walked through a couple more rooms so they could find a place for Anti Guy to rest. Slasher didn't need rest, since he was an android.
They looked around all the coffins. Many of them were Shy Guys, under Bowser and Kamek's control. Eventually they came to a dead end. Huge coffins were lined against the wall, and the floor was wide. Anti Guy decided just to settle here. As he was about to sit down, he heard a loud, cracking voice.
"So you want to know about the Wishing Star, eh? I know everything about it." Suddenly, a Magikoopa appeared. He still had some flesh, but he was very old. "Sorry for not introducing myself. I'm Kamek, the greatest Magikoopa of all time!"
"Isn't that nice," said Anti Guy.
"Don't mock my greatness!" yelled Kamek. Then he smiled a bony smile. "You know, I hadn't had a good exercise in many years. Give me a good one, and then maybe I'll tell you." Suddenly, Kamek pointed his wand at two of the coffins. Bright lights of triangles, circles, and squares came blasting out of his wand to the coffins. The coffins fell open, and Anti Guy and Slasher saw a huge turtle and a huge Raven came walking out.
"Meet Hookbill the Koopa and Raphael the Raven," said Kamek. "Those stupid Yoshis killed them years ago. I doubt you can." He laughed maniacally.
Hookbill stomped over to Kamek and said, "You old geezer! You want us to squash these little Shy Guys?"
"We're not little!" squeaked Anti Guy. Hookbill laughed a loud, zombified laugh. Then he ducked in his shell and charged at Anti Guy. Anti Guy jumped over him and dodged. Then he pulled out the Slingshot and aimed it at Hookbill. Suddenly, the Slingshot was shot out of Anti Guy's grips by Kamek's wand.
"Sorry, none of those toys," said Kamek. Anti Guy fumed with anger. Hookbill turned around and attacked again. Quickly, Slasher pulled out his slingshot.
"Quick, Anti Guy! Give me some of that killer ammo of yours!" Anti Guy tossed some ammo to Slasher. He quickly loaded it and fired it at Raphael, who was charging at him. It didn't faze him! "What's wrong with this, Anti Guy? This is normal ammo, you moron!"
"No it isn't… It can burn, I think!"
"Well, it isn't happening for me!" screamed Slasher. Raphael smashed into Slasher, hurling the small Shy Guy into the ancient walls. Kamek laughed with amusement.
Anti Guy had had enough. Hookbill came rushing at him again. Anti Guy spontaneously kicked Hookbill's shell hard enough to flip him. Kamek gasped. "Damn! He's a strong Shy Guy!" he muttered to himself.
Anti Guy, seeing this as his chance, began to pound Hookbill hard on the stomach. He pounded him so hard, that the building shook.
Elsewhere in the building, seven people walked in the Mausoleum.
"Finally we got through that dreaded Black Forest?" cried one of them.
Suddenly, they all heard a thumping noise.
"The Mausoleum is even scarier!" he wailed.
Hookbill, being so old and not used to such strength, couldn't take it anymore. He faded away. Kamek cursed silently. Raphael was still attacking Slasher though.
Raphael charged again. This time, Slasher popped out his blades and started spinning them. Raphael didn't notice the blades. The next thing he noticed was his gray feathers falling off. He quickly ran back into his coffin and closed it.
Kamek cursed and tried to run, but Anti Guy charged him into the wall.
"All right, all right! You win!" moaned Kamek. Anti Guy pinned him down while Kamek was telling his story.
"In ancient times, not all stars were good. You better believe it." He coughed and wheezed. Then he continued. "There were two powerful star brothers. You could say they ruled the world back then. Their names were Korrupt and Eldstar. They made many things together. For one thing, they created the Mausoleum to house the dead. In fact, they made it so we all had some kind of bond together. That's how I knew everything that was happening near the core. That's also how Slasher's victims found him.
"Anyways, they started a new project: a star that could grant anyone's wish. Soon, Korrupt became obsessed with the thought of wish granting. Soon, he became evil, and added in some touches of his own to the star. He added the ability to grant any wish, not just good wishes. Eldstar was also thinking of a way for people to access a star, but Klevar went on with his idea of sacrificing seven people. However, the idea of sacrifice was ditched, and he just used seven people as a key. He also made some restrictions on the people.
"Soon, Korrupt's obsessions grew and grew. He became even more maniacal. Eldstar finally found out and exiled Korrupt to the west. Before he did that, Korrupt started the Wishing Star. There was nothing Eldstar could do at that point. After that, Eldstar gathered six more worthy stars and they became the Star Spirits. Then they created the Star Rod, which could only grant good wishes. They tried to erase knowledge of the Wishing Star, but some people found out about it like Dr. Myco and Dr. Fungenstein. And that concludes the story. There is more about Korrupt though, but I won't bother telling more stories. Koopha can tell you that if he wants."
Kamek faded away.
"Interesting bedtime story," said Anti Guy. He soon fell asleep, and Slasher examined the Slingshot while Anti Guy snored loudly.
END
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