Chapter 2

The knives fly straight toward CF's head! But amazingly, he caught the knives with his mouth and everyone clapped their hands. CF said to the chicken, "You foul fowl! You trying to kill me?!"

Then the cow raises its horns and charges straight at CF! CF's adrenaline pumps in and he breaks out from the board he's tied onto and then he jumps onto the back of the cow. The cow runs around wildly, trying to shake him off. Soon they run off the stage.

"Falcon better be all right," says Marth to no one in particular. Yoshi said, "Those two livestock wants to attack him on purpose. I wonder why?"

The scene switches to outside the circus where you see Pix, Punk, and CF standing there with a hot kettle on the ground. Pix and Punk is dripping wet with hot water.

CF: By looking at that eyesight, I knew it was the both of you.

Pix: You're pretty good to protect yourself from those knives.

Punk: I thought we'd succeed for sure.

CF: So this was your plan all along, right? Giving us the circus ticket and trying to get one of us to be volunteered for the knife-throwing game, and then a cow and chicken comes onto the stage to perform. Nobody would've guessed it was you two.

Pix: In case you're wondering, I'll tell you everything.

FLASHBACK

In China, at the cursed training ground of Jusenkyo, Pix, Pork, and the Jusenkyo Guide is there.

The guide tells them, "This is Jusenkyo, the land of curse spring. Long ago people train here, but they don't train anymore because it is cursed,"

Then Pix tells Punk, "Okay, we'll train here," But the guide warns them, "Wait! Very bad if you fall in spring!" But Pix responds, "I know that! Our leader Punk once trained here and he fell into the Spring of Drowned Eagle-Carrying-A-Monkey,"

Refer to "Old Time Friends" to know more about it.

So the both of them jumps onto the bamboo sticks extending from the pools. They practiced by performing jump kicks at each other and doing all kind of martial art techniques. Soon, Pork holds onto the side of a stick and is about to fall into the water below.

Pork: Help! I can't hold onto it any longer! I'm slipping down!

Pix: Hang on! I'll help you!

Pix jump kicks the pole, making it tilt to the side and putting Pork onto land, but Pix falls into water himself... Then out of the pool emerges a chicken.

Guide: Mister, you have fallen into Spring of Drowned Chicken. A chicken drowned in this pool 1000 years ago. Whoever falls into it will take the body of a chicken.

Pork: Is there a cure for this?

Guide: Too bad there is no Spring of Drowned Space Pirate, so he has no cure.

Pork: Poor guy.

Pork lifts Pix-chicken out of the pool and says to him, "Don't worry, hot water will reverse you to your old form. Just don't touch cold water if you don't want to become a chicken,"

As he was saying this, he slips on a slippery mud and falls into another pool and then he emerges as a cow. The guide says, "You fall into Spring of Drowned Cow, where a cow drowned here also 1000 years ago. Whoever falls into it will take a body of a cow,"

END OF FLASHBACK

Pix: And therefore, we blame you for our curses.

CF: Why me?

Pix: If you haven't defeated us before, we would never have went there to train and fall into the pools.

CF: Why do you choose that place when there are tons of training grounds all over the world?

Pork: You have ruined our lives! You will pay for it!

CF: Blame it on yourself!

Pix picks up a bucket of water and asks CF, "Do you know what is this?" CF replies, "A bucket of water, so?"

Pix: It may look like a bucket of water, but I tell you... It's water from the Spring of Drowned Chicken.

CF: So I will become I chicken if I touch it, right?

Pix: Right. We have brought a lot of them here especially for you and your fellow Smashers. We will turn you into a chicken so we can kill you easily.

Then an egg is thrown at Pix, which explodes in his face and makes him spill the water on himself and becoming a chicken. Yoshi appears and says, "Captain, we're here to save you!"

Pork says, "We got a lot more of them, and it's stored in water balloons!" So Pork start throwing the water balloons at them, but Marth swipes them all out. Then Falcon grabs a hose and shoots water at Pork to turn him into a cow. Pix jumps onto Pork's back and starts throwing water balloons that are filled with waters from the Drowned Chicken Spring. "Don't touch the water!" CF warns the others, "We must run from them!"

The three of them runs through the carnival street, being chased by a chicken and a cow. Pix throw some water balloons straight at them, but the balloons flew over them and are heading for some kids looking at some hamsters in a cage. CF quickly rushes to the kids and pulls them away before the balloon hits them. When the balloon hits the cage, the water burst out onto the hamsters and turns them into chickens.

Yoshi uses Egg Roll to roll himself into Pork and knocks him into a tree, along with Pix. Marth then uses Shield Breaker and sends them flying into the sky.

"That'll teach them, at least for now," says Marth.

"Look!" says Yoshi, "Jigglypuff is here!"

And so it is, Jigglypuff came to the carnival by herself. She is wearing a red ribbon on her right ear.

Yoshi: Having fun here?

Jigglypuff: Jiggly is having fun here!

Yoshi: Did anyone come with you?

Jigglypuff: No one wants to come with Jiggly, so I come alone.

Yoshi: How long have you been here?

Jigglypuff: Just came.

Yoshi: Oh...

Jigglypuff: Do you rescue Yoshi already?

Yoshi: Yeah, yeah...

CF calls Yoshi, "There's a paintball contest! Come play!"

"Okay!" responds Yoshi and then he turns to Jigglypuff and asks her, "Want to play paintball?" But Jigglypuff replies, "Paintball very hurt! I don't want to!"

"All right," says Yoshi, "Go play by yourself,"

So CF, Marth, and Yoshi went to play paintball.

Jigglypuff sees the ring-throwing game and decides to play it. The man-in-charge says, "Toss the ring! What it hits is yours!" So Jigglypuff threw the rings and it lands on a teddy bear.

"Congratulations! You have won a prize!" says the man, who then got the bear and sprinkles some powder onto it. When Jigglypuff got hold of the teddy bear, she immediately become woozy and fell asleep. The man turns out to be Pix in disguise, he says, "Hehehehe! I have put sleeping powder on the bear, that's why she fell asleep. Now to..."

When evening comes, the three Smashers come out from the paintball battleground.

CF: Yeah! I headshot 60 people easily!

Marth: And you continued to stay alive even after getting shot many times in your head! You weren't following the rules!

Yoshi: I didn't have much luck...

CF: That guy was good! He dodged all the shots in Matrix style!

Yoshi: They're passing out flyers for the next circus performance. Let's look at it.

The flyer shows the picture of Jigglypuff and the words, "Jigglypuff will turn into chicken! Come see this evening 5 PM!"

Yoshi: This is our Jigglypuff! She has that red ribbon on her right ear!

Marth: Those Space Pirates must be involved in this! What time is it?

CF: 4:51 PM

Marth: Time is not much! We must rescue her!

So they quickly run to the circus.

At the circus, the audiences are eager to see the show of a Jigglypuff turning into a chicken. Pix and Punk are at the stage with Jigglypuff tied up inside a glass tank. The ringmaster says, "Ladies and gentlemen! You will now see a Jigglypuff turning into a chicken! This will be an amazing show!"

Pix says to himself softly, "Let's see if those three Smashers can come in time to save her,"

Outside the circus, the three Smashers are rushing towards the circus. "We're coming to save you!" cries Marth.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Time is running out... Can they save Jigglypuff in time? Read the next chapter!